31 May 2022 at 11:00PM
INCOSE | Developing Conversational Skills for Greater Influence
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2022
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm PDT
Location: Zoom
Price: FREE
FREE WEBINAR: Developing Conversational Skills
Presenters: Craig Weber, Weber Consulting Group
When: Sat. June 18, 2022, from 9:00--1:00 pm PDT
Cost: Free
How to Join the Event: Zoom Link will be sent to registered participants
Questions: Dorothy Benveniste, president@incose-la.org
Systems engineers must be holistic thinkers, strong communicators, and maintain a broad view of systems and how they are being used. These roles require team building and effective communication skills to clearly communicate complex ideas and technical designs. Effective communication skills are essential to openly debate root causes, design tradeoffs and risk assessments.
Conversational capacity is a nuanced approach to effective communication. When someone shares a different point of view, we get curious: “What can their perspective teach me about how I am looking at this issue?” If we can be curious about another point of view, we expand our options and range of potential solutions to a problem.
This approach strengthens every activity that depends on open, clear, effective dialogue – from running design reviews, making complex decisions, giving feedback, to crafting strategy, facilitating change, and fostering innovation.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will engage in small group activities to practice how to build healthier, more adaptive teams and working relationships and learn how to:
- Exert greater influence and help good ideas get the traction they deserve.
- Enable teamwork with less conflict & more collaboration.
- Remain levelheaded and learning-focused in high-stakes situations
- Sharpen your emotional and social intelligence.
- Strengthen core skills in problem solving, decision-making, change mgmt.
- Boost your competence and confidence when dealing with difficult issues.
Improve levels of trust, civility, and psychological safety.
