Effective leaders understand how powerful an opportunity can be when they can tap into the intelligence, wisdom, and innovation present in their workforce. Conversational leadership provides the space and infrastructure for knowledge sharing to take place; for employees, stakeholders, and the community to be involved in discussing big, important questions; and to generate solutions that people within the organization can take action on. This will help you know how to:

• About the wisdom inherent in encouraging conversational leadership
• How to describe the four I’s of conversational leadership
• How to apply the principles of conversational leadership to improve results
• How to organize a simple World Café as an example of conversational leadership

Course Content

Lessons

Session One: Course Overview

Session Two: What’s In A Word?

Session Three: Fundamental Elements

Session Four: The Four-I Model of Organizational Conversation

Session Five: The Conversational Leadership Framework

Session Six: World Café