FDH Measures of Business Success Webinar Series
Creative collaboration, bottom-line results, and employee happiness & well-being.
Introduction to the Series
In February, 2020, the FDH Managers participated in a learning and development session with Stop At Nothing, Inc., in which they were introduced to several valuable tools. These tools helped the team adopt skills and behaviors that supported three key measures of business success: bottom-line results, creative collaboration, and employee happiness and well-being.
Given the effectiveness of the session, FDH’s leadership team decided to expand the adoption of these tools to the entire FDH team through a 3-part webinar series described below. We hope you can join us!
Part 1: Leading Yourself and Others through Change
June 11th 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST
In this interactive 90-minute session, Ted Powell, Stop At Nothing will lead the FDH team through a discussion on how to best lead yourself and others through the current substantial changes we are facing, as a business and as people. Attendees will learn how to adapt themselves to the “new normal” and to exercise the resiliency needed to thrive, personally and professionally. Participants will reflect upon the different responses to changes they have been witnessing amongst colleagues and within themselves. They will also learn to anticipate and avoid some of the common mistakes people make when under the spell of change-related stress.
Utilizing Stop At Nothing’s Change Curve tool, attendees will learn how they can adapt to the new work environment, increase confidence in their ability to deal with change-related issues, and take greater control over the speed and quality of their response to changing circumstances.
Part 2: How to Improve Decision Making Using The 4-D Process
June 16th 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST
Successful teams and organizations adopt decision-making processes that are efficient, creative and cohesive. Many teams experience compromised decision-making in the form of:
- Prolonged debates and discussions caused by unresolved differences of opinion.
- Decisions that are made without adequate discussion and full participation, resulting in lack of buy-in and/or ability to anticipate challenges during execution.
- Stronger personalities overpowering the quieter voices at the expense of creativity and buy-in.
- Frustrations that difficult decisions take too long.
- Seeming alignment that breaks down later based on unexpressed concerns early on or differing views regarding what was actually decided (lack of follow up documenting what actions will be taken).
During this session, attendees will learn how to apply Stop At Nothing’s 4-D Decision Making tool to promote stronger alignment and executional effectiveness around team decisions. Many times, participants will also apply this tool in resolving decision-making challenges in their personal life, whether within their family or community engagement activities.
Part 3: Inspiring Team Trust, Cohesion and Productivity
June 24th 8:00 am – 9:30 am EST
In this session we will focus on “How to identify and eliminate behaviors that undermine trust and performance in an organization.” Certain common and identifiable negative behavior patterns are prone to infect even well-functioning teams and organizations. By learning how to detect these patterns, emotionally intelligent leaders can more effectively lead employees and themselves to adopt more effective responses that build trust, cohesion and productivity.
Each participant will leave with a plan to support, with greater intent and focus, a more inspired, creative and productive workplace. As an added benefit, attendees will learn how these patterns can play out in their personal lives, through their relationships with parents, children, siblings, self and more.
Meet the Facilitator: Ted Powell
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fter having been one of Stop At Nothing’s early clients, Ted became a Managing Partner in 1995. A preceding 14-year marketing career with American Express and AT&T inspired him to develop in himself and others the skills he most admired in the leaders he encountered. He has facilitated thousands of team sessions and provided leadership coaching to hundreds of executives, sharing stories, tools and skills to foster personal responsibility, self-awareness, and trust for leaders and teams.