Mini-Series

The Currency of Collaboration

SPEAKER: Patrick Hiester, MA, LPC

• Do you ever engage in behaviors that undermine your potential?
• Do you find yourself doing things that compromise your ability to achieve your desired goals?
• Have you ever struggled with a difficult co-worker, boss, client or someone in your personal life?

If the answer is “yes”, then we encourage you to attend this workshop and learn about a new way to step “out of the box” and move forward.

This workshop, based on the Arbinger Institute’s model of personal leadership, suggests that if we can step "out of the box" and see how we contribute to repetitive problem situations, we can change our assumptions and our behaviors and break the cycle of "more of the same."

Come join us and take away some invaluable insights and tools that are fundamental to your success in your work and in your life.

Expected Outcomes:

• Sharpened Vision in challenging situations
• Opportunity for immediate conflict negotiation
• Reduced feelings of conflict, and increased conscious, intentional resolution ability
• Enliven the desire for teamwork
• Redoubled accountability
• Magnified capacity to achieve results
• Deepened satisfaction and happiness

This workshop combines several organizational approaches and theories to convey an experiential understanding of the value of collaboration. In our work facilitating conflict resolution, working with dysfunctional or challenged teams, and in leadership development we have concluded that effective collaboration is the missing currency. Our most successful interventions, trainings and assessments have been ones in which we are able to build collaboration.

The currency of collaboration goes up in value as we learn how to enhance trust levels, build teams, and create aligned partnerships.  

This training will explore how we enter “boxes” in which we depersonalize and objectify others. We then tend to elicit the specific behaviors from them we seek to avoid. We lose emotional intelligence and the ability to reach the best solution we are capable of. The “Currency of Collaboration” approach facilitates participants in taking personal responsibility to improve their collaborative skill sets.  You will find out what it takes to see others as whole people, allowing you to interact with them with compassion and kindness while being assertive and clear in your communication and behavior.

Participants will be invited to examine their beliefs and assumptions about collaboration and conflict. They will discover how their beliefs may be limiting their problem-solving abilities and to find ways to effectively work in collaboration with others.

SPEAKER:

Patrick Hiester, MA, LPC
Patrick Hiester is the Vice President of BizPsych, the Organizational Psychology and training division of Mines & Associates. Mr. Hiester specializes in the assessment and intervention of complex organizational challenges, executive coaching, leadership development, training and facilitation. Mr. Hiester combines many years of experience in organizational consulting, counseling and psychology, experiential education, conflict mediation, domestic and workplace violence and practice in the employee assistance Field. Mr. Hiester has experience working at various levels in multiple industries and currently specializes in working with a number of industries including: Healthcare, Legal, Municipalities and Labor/business. Mr. Hiester is a dynamic presenter, consultant and facilitator.
 
Patrick Hiester, a Licensed Professional Counselor, holds a Master’s Degree in Agency Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado, and has over 25 years experience in the counseling and consulting field. Patrick has consulted with organizations since 1996 in a variety of capacities including: training and development, organizational development, coaching, outplacement consulting, experiential education, workgroup assessment, sensitivity training and mediation.