communication perspectives
Technical leaders and C-suite executives look at things from very different perspectives.
Better alignment can improve business relationships, transform exasperating and exhausting encounters into productive conversations, and even increase valuation.
Conflict is a powerful force in business; make sure it’s working to your advantage and that your leadership team is pulling in the same direction. Communication gaps between executives and technical leaders can exacerbate these conflicts and lead to suboptimal decisions, higher turnover, and chronically missed deadlines.
ArkTech Perspectives provides workshops and meeting facilitation that demonstrate techniques for replacing power dynamics with productive conflict resolution, with special emphasis on breaking down the communications barriers between technical leadership and executives.
If your organization could benefit from increased productivity, a half-day workshop from ArkTech Perspectives can jump-start the transformation from dysfunction to operational excellence.
Workshops can be tailored to the executive level or the technical leaders. Contact us today to discuss how we can help take your team to the next level.
We start with a free 30-minute webconference to discuss your current challenges and key target areas of improvement. One of the outcomes of this call will be an estimated composition of attendees.
From that webconference, ArkTech Perspectives will prepare a tailored workshop agenda that we present to you on a second 30-minute webconference. Sample topics include:
- The Taxonomy of Conflict
- Listening to Understand AND Respond
- What You Can Learn from “We Can’t” and How to Overcome the “We Can’t” Obstacle
- The Power of Acknowledgement
- The Utility — and Blind Spots — of Management by Metrics
- Using the Six Thinking Hats to Align Difficult Discussions
Once you approve the agenda, we will request some information about the attendees and work with you to schedule logistics for a 4-hour workshop at the location of your choice. (Note: Workshops may be combined with Six Thinking Hats meeting facilitation in increments of 4 hours.)
For a fee of $4,000 plus travel expenses, our facilitator will travel to your location and lead an interactive workshop for your team of up to 25 participants.
The workshop will begin by guiding each attendee to define their personal criteria for success for the workshop, and we will measure the workshop against those criteria at the end of the workshop.
Follow-up surveys will be sent 7, 45, and 90 days after the workshop to gauge how effectively the workshop addressed your current challenges and key target areas of improvement.
Equally comfortable with C-suite executives and technical leaders
At each stop in his career, Jonathan Crawford, Founder, was hired as a software engineer and rose into management within the first year. As CTO of LeaseAccelerator, he navigated that company through two consecutive years of hypergrowth to establish them as the leading provider of lease accounting SaaS for the Fortune 1000.
Understand the value of structured coaching around conflict management
Jonathan was blessed to have several years of coaching from the late Rob Berkley, a giant among executive coaches. Jonathan’s retention rates for key staff were unrivalled, and he has mentored leaders and executives across the enterprise.
Improving soft skills in communications and conflict management leads to a happier, more productive workplace. Sharing techniques and experiences is Jonathan’s way of “paying it forward” to the next generation of leaders.