Assignment
- Posted by: Joe Williams
I recently conducted a Face2Face communication session in Regina, Saskatchewan for managers at Farm Credit Canada.
A week after the workshop I sent the participants a note with the following suggested “assignment.”
Perhaps you might find it useful, also.
Choose one of the items below.
1. Ask more questions.
2. Lead from behind.
3. Transfer your energy.
4. Give more than you receive.
5. Listen more than you talk.
6. Praise more than you criticize.
7. Accept more, judge less.
8. Be fully present with someone.
Write your choice and put it by your work station where it’s easily viewed.
Then for each hour of each day for the next week, bring it forth in everything you do.
At the end of that time, notice what’s different about you and about how others relate to you.
And if you have time, drop a comment about it on this blog. We’d love to hear from you.
This week I’m heading to Bloomington, Indiana for the second Dialogue Indiana strategic thinking, planning and leadership workshop for Indiana-area nonprofit organizations. The amazing thing about it is that Dialogue alums LuAnne and Bill Holladay, Anne Palmer, and Barbara Coffman came up with the idea of doing this a couple of years ago and they organized and marketed the entire affair. We’re keeping the cost low for non-profits and are holding the two-day session at the Waycross Retreat Center, some 30 minutes outside Bloomington. LuAnne and Barbara are doing a labyrinth walk and LuAnne will be doing a yoga orientation early one morning. In between, I will be presenting the group with some of the core tools from the desert program. Last year marked the inaugural workshop and we have a great group coming this time, including one from Canada, thanks to Dialogue alum Sandra Cruickshanks at the Trillium Foundation!
Stay tuned for reports from Waycross, WIFI connection permitting!
