The Margin of Difference™: The Path to Creating Inspired Organizations

Length: 2-day Workshop

Why do some organizations instinctively make choices that enable them to succeed while others struggle? It isn't luck. It all comes down to five basics that create the margin of difference between good enough and inspired organizations. By the time you leave this workshop, you will know what they are and how to apply them to your organization.

What makes this seminar different?

If you want to come to a seminar, sit in the back of the room, and hope that someone inspires you; this is not the seminar for you. That is not the way inspired organizations happen, and this is not how this seminar works.

• The seminar process itself embodies the qualities of an inspired organization.
• You will learn about how to create inspired social networks, social capital, conversations, engagement processes and individual thinking by actually experiencing it with your fellow participants.

What is this seminar about?

This seminar provides a two-day overview of the five factors that determine the margin of difference between good enough and an inspired organization. During the course you will:

• Understand what it takes to move your organization from good enough to inspired.
• Learn how to use the power of pull and how to develop high quality social networks, social capital, conversations, engagement processes and begin the development of your own inspired thinking.
• Rate your own organization on every factor.
• Identify concrete steps that you can use in your own organization.

By the end of this two-day session, participants will:

• Build a solid understanding of the factors that determine the margin of difference between good enough and superior intellectual outcomes, including:


• The Sources of Pull that Influence Your Ability to Achieve The Margin of Difference™: You will know the six core pull questions and what it takes to address them in your organization. You will know how to focus on what matters, gain agreement on it and make it important enough to drive performance.


• The Quality of Social Networks: You will know that characteristics of social networks that enable you to push the boundaries of current thinking and to fluidly shift and adjust to the emerging requirements of intellectual challenges.


• The Degree of Social Capital within those Networks: You will know the five qualities that create a bank account of goodwill and rapport between people


• The Power of Conversations: You will:
• Understand the three types of conversations hand-off, collaboration and coordination as well as the continuum from fighting to dialogue on which they occur.
• Learn what it takes to create both individual and joint inspired thinking.


• Creating Flow in Your Engagement Processes: You will learn the difference between processes that:
• Enhance the fluid interchange of ideas resulting in discovery and inspiration and those that frustrate it.
• Propel the fluid forward movement of ideas – creating flow and those that undermine continuity.
• Mine the best thinking of each person and those that waste people’s time.


• The Quality of the Individual Thinking Processes: You will the examine the three essential qualities of inspired thinkers:
• Pushing the boundaries of their own thinking.
• Staying focused on optimal versions of outcomes and processes rather than their fears.
• Approaching each other with appreciation rather than criticism.


• By the completion of the session, you will have rated both your team and the organization on the ten point margin of difference scale. You will conduct this rating on all of the factors that determine the difference between a good enough and an inspired organization.

Recommended for:

We highly recommend that the initial introduction of this course be implemented with top executives. It can then be offered to intact teams at all levels of an organization.

Prerequisites:

There is no prerequisite to this training.

Come ready to roll up your sleeves, learn a lot, and have some fun!