Courses

Walt Recommends

Make Your Mark!: Influencing Across Your Organization

This indispensable guide covers the political strategies any businessperson can use to make things happen in an inflexible organization. The author reveals how to build coalitions, get support for ideas from people who count, choose the right strategy, overcome resistance, and much more.

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Transcultural Leadership: Empowering the Diverse Workforce (Managing Cultural Differences)

Supervisors, project managers and CEOs should find this book useful as it deals with an emerging global reality - culturally diverse people of both genders in the workplace.

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The Invitation

The poem is a challenge to us and in this accessible and inspiring book Oriah Mountain Dreamer tells us how to meet that challenge

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Courses

When you come to a Castle Course, you get specific feedback on how to improve your skills and you get clear models that you apply instantly to your own situation. You learn from flipcharts, exercises, and video feedback. Instead of darkening the room and putting you to sleep with slides, we lighten the room with laughter, learning, and dozens of colourful flipcharts. A Castle Course is an intense experience that gives you the chance to change how you work and how you live.

	Appreciative Inquiry Human Interaction Lab Imagine an NTL Human Interaction Lab based on the model of Appreciative Inquiry. Imagine appreciating the difficult, painful problems each of us has AND also appreciating the exhilarating strength and wisdom within each of us to create a better future in which we live our values to the fullest. Come and join us in this imagining adventure. MORE
	VIA: Values Influence Action Since your Values do Influence your Action, this unique learning sequence—blending seminars, coaching, and support teams—enables you to clarify your values, identify your purpose, broaden your range of influencing skills, and get the results you want. First you focus on aligning your personal and professional values, using intense in-depth personal work to determine what you want from yourself and from others; then you focus on using body awareness and mental agility to expand the range of skills needed to influence others to get the results you and your organisation need. MORE
	Values Seminar During the Values seminar, we focus on identifying values, creating a passionate purpose, and getting feedback on how you put your values into action. You make choices about what to do more of and what to do less of in your personal and professional life. You increase the range of your choices in the processes of solving problems, building teams, and working with groups. You get intensive feedback from your colleagues on the impact of your approach to people and to situations. MORE
	Partners Achieve Results You know lots of things and and you have lots of skills. So do I, although my knowledge and skills are different from yours. We can each accomplish something; together we can accomplish even more even faster. That's what PAR stands for: Partners Achieve Results. MORE
	International Human Interaction Lab The Human Interaction Laboratory is NTL's most requested program. It is an introduction to interpersonal relations, group dynamics, with a focus on developing and practicing effective interpersonal skills and giving and receiving feedback responsibly. This popular program is the gateway program for many other NTL offerings. The T Group (T for training)--developed and refined by NTL to provide an intensive small-group experience, an informal atmosphere of shared learning, and an opportunity for behavioral feedback and assessment--is the foundation of the Human Interaction Laboratory. Working through the T Group method, experiential methods, and theoretical and conceptual frameworks, participants will increase their awareness of the effects of their behavior on others, enhance their communication skills and thus their ability to understand themselves and others, develop the ability to give and receive feedback responsibly, have a clearer understanding of group development and group dynamics, and be more aware of diversity issues. The International Human Interaction Lab is an opportunity to work in a T Group with trainers from different cultures and with participants from different cultures to learn more about ourselves with the cultural lens always present. I have been the Dean of the first three International HI labs in Bethel for the past three years. This year we are offering two more labs, one in Europe and one in Asia. I look forward to learning with you on these. MORE
	Influencing for Results You focus on assessing your current influence skills, exploring and practising new skills, and learning how to apply your skills in actual situations. We also look at how to go beyond influencing into the process of building relationships and developing partnerships. We use videotape and intensive feedback to give you more choices about how you interact with other people. MORE
	Create Your Future What are you going to do next? Who are you going to do it with? Why are you going to do it? Where are you going to do it? How are you going to do it? When are you going to do it? Simple questions. Difficult to answer.This course gives you the time to answer these questions, working with colleagues and an experienced coach. Here's how it works: MORE
	Influencing Across Your Organisation What happens to a new idea in an organisation? If it's your idea, do you assume everyone will instantly accept it? Do you try to sell it to one other person? Do you work with a team to make it happen? Or do you build a coaliton across the organisation to bring the idea into action? Each of those choices might be appropriate. Using the research in Sue Craig's book Make Your Mark!, we focus on choosing the right strategy for influencing in your organisation. MORE
	Diversity in Values Diversity in Values enables us to learn how our similar values and different values enable us to live together and work together effectively. This session is based on the award-winning video from Video Arts: Not My Type with its participant workbook and trainer guide designed by George Simons and Walt Hopkins. MORE
	Senior Executive Effectiveness Unique combination: first a week to focus on aligning personal and professional values using intense in-depth personal work to determine what you want from yourself and from others; then a week to focus on using body awareness and mental agility to expand the range of skills needed to influence others to get the results you and your organisation need MORE
	Action Coaching Team ACT on what you have learned. This course follows the Values Seminar and the Influence Seminar. In the Learning Team that you have formed on the course, you continue to learn together through virtual contacts with each other and with the course coach. MORE