TLIO (Transformational Learning for Individuals + Organizations)
Arizona; national and international projects
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310 339 3355
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Services:
Leadership development, organizational development, developmental coaching, team development, design and facilitation of leadership, all staff and other stakeholder retreats
About:
Through custom designed learning initiatives, we help clients:
• See situations in new and expanded ways
• Transform the way they think about and carry out their work
• Develop new options for overcoming longstanding problems
• Anticipate and respond powerfully to new challenges and surprises
• Collaborate to maximize creativity and impact
• Manage conflict productively (and even learn to benefit from it)
• Embrace diversity as a source of potent new ideas and options for action
Transformational learning:
• Engages the whole person: knowing, doing, and being
• Shifts participants’ habitual perspectives to be more flexible, encompassing, discriminating and integrating
• Incorporates emotional intelligence, as emotions are predispositions to certain kinds of actions
• Helps participants to face ‘disorienting dilemmas’ in their learning process, shifting from ‘either-or’ to a more integrative mode of thought
• Respectfully stretches people’s boundaries and takes them to the edge of their comfort zone
• Transforms organizational conversations to strengthen the human fiber of the organization
• Encourages effective risk taking, breaking through the emotional discomfort that prevents us from dealing effectively with a whole range of problems including performance dialogue
• Increases individuals’ willingness to take more responsibility for their own contribution and to hold themselves accountable.
• Borrows from creative arts such as ensemble improvisation to improve communication, collaboration, and leadership development
Ensemble improvisation is a powerful set of practices that develop an actor’s capacity to be fully present in an uncertain, unknowable and surprising situation, and to co-create a positive outcome with the rest of the ensemble. This kind of training builds capacities that are clearly beneficial for leadership and collaboration in organizations:
• Integrative,’yes, and’ interactions instead of oppositional ‘either/or’: capacity to see value in what others are contributing
• Capacity to think outside the box, exploring and embracing the unexpected, turning it into an opportunity
• Capacity to see options that will be successful, and commit fully to that choice and action
• Using presence and actions as a form of language, for powerful communication
• Awareness, the deep capacity to truly hear and understand the ‘other’, to connect in a way that will produce the desired outcome
• Capacity to let go of the ‘exact’ outcome to become available t