How to build INFLUENTIAL HR TEAMS that create collaborative relationships as respected strategic partners.  

If you’re convinced that building collaborative HR teams is critical for the success of your organization, if you’ve shifted to a self-serve model of HR services, if you’ve adapted the center of excellence as on organizational design, and you want to hear how other organizations are using Flawless Consulting as a strategic lever, then this webinar is for you.

Creating collaborative HR teams requires intentionality.

Helping organizational leaders move away from viewing HR as transactional operators, and instead, treating them as consultants and strategic partners requires a proven, conversational system. Let’s explore this possibility together.

During this webinar you’ll:

• Gain insight into the implementable ideas working well for three senior HR leaders who are building the capabilities of their HR teams to be more influential and consistently collaborative
• Understand the unique challenges HR departments face in today’s evolving workplace and how to overcome them with less trial and error
• Elevate the value of your HR expertise for navigating the current workplace transformation that, if ignored, will leave many without a seat at the table after the proverbial music stops playing

Panelists

Kim Blue, Global Head of People Experience Partners at Zoom

Andrea M. Benavides, Senior Director, People Operations at Fabric.Inc

Wally Kuhns, Vice President, Human Resources at Dexcom

Apply the principles of Flawless Consulting and gain influence for your ideas and suggestions by learning business partnering skills from Peter Block, the author of Flawless Consulting and creator of Flawless Consulting training. Talk directly with Peter about your ideas, insights, questions, or challenges.

Jeff Evans, a managing partner at Designed Learning, will be sharing what he’s learned in his over 25 years of consulting experience about which tools to use to achieve results as a consultant. Learn how to create better results as an internal consultant by asking for what you want in specific, concrete terms.

Learn how to foster connections and build trusted partnerships to eliminate barriers to productivity and results in a virtual setting. This webinar will give you the skills you need to be successful at building long-distance relationships with clients through trust.

Jeff Evans, one of Designed Learning’s Managing Partners and Flawless Consultants, discusses the process of building trusted business partnerships during organization upheaval.

During this webinar, Lydia Schimmelpfenig discusses going beyond coaching practices, the recent focus in organizations on coaching skills, and how consulting skills can enhance an organization’s coaching culture to create productive partnerships.

Learn more about how you can influence your clients to take action on your recommendations, producing stronger organizational outcomes with this webinar from Designed Learning’s Managing Partner, Jeff Evans.

Designed Learning Consultant Joe Maalouf will share what it means to show up authentically, why it matters, and how interacting from a place of authenticity will improve outcomes in your organization.

Joe Maalouf has been a consultant with Designed Learning since 1993. He is a founding partner of the Canadian company Effiqual, and of the Lebanese company Beyond Consulting & Training, which are sister consulting firms specializing in assisting organizations to enhance:
• Quality
• Sustainability
• effectiveness through developing the person at work

Learn to quickly build authentic business relationships that will help you grow and sustain your organization. We will share 4 principles from Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting that you can immediately apply in your work and business relationships.

 

Below you will find Peter Block’s answers to all of the questions he did not have time to answer during “The 3 Pitfalls that Cause Projects to Fail” webinar.

Dean: How can one isolate bad behavior on the part of a powerful individual that is creating serious resistance and impeding trust?

Peter Block: You have the question right, Dean. No use in trying to change the one committed to low trust. You cannot resist or confront the behavior. What you can do is build support among those around that person. Engage them with each other about their intentions and raise the question with them how they can support each other more in the face of the one undermining trust.

Jim: As an ABCD consultant to neighborhood CBOs and Residents …. negotiating a “contract” with residents is tricky since they, typically, are seeking to be taken care of vs. being assisted. Do you have any suggestions for negotiating with residents?

Peter Block: Jim, you see the dilemma of learning passivity or internalized dependency. Rather than the language of negotiation, which assumes they will show up as equals, you might simply keep asking them what they want in the moment. Treat them as free agents, and when they trust the environment, they might answer the question of what they want. Lecturing them about their possibility is useless.

Deb: I work as a facilitator for a Restorative City trust and facilitate restorative conferences and community decision-making. I have been working with a consensus decision-making to help people make decisions that they all engage with and follow through with. What is your approach when a decision must be made, one or two people cannot move forward with the group?

Peter Block: You are doing wonderful work, Deb. Thank you for that.
Give up the idea of literal consensus. Create space for people who refuse to say “I pass” at moments of decision. Otherwise, you will reject them or make them lie to go along. Invite them to stay connected, but not let them hold things back. Consensual decision making is to believe in the patience to hear all points of view, but not be strangled by a vote.

Rebecca: I’m looking for guidance on how to be heard and seen in my bro-dominated workspace. I participate on teams but constantly feel like that what I share is ignored and not heard. I’ve experienced directly sharing feedback and then watching how when the same concept is repeated by a male colleague the group goes along. Looking for guidance on how to show up in my own power and be seen and valued for my contributions.

Peter Block: Rebecca, you see the world as it often is. You likely showing up in your own power, and often it has no impact. There is nothing to “do” or “fix” about it in the moment. What is unbearable is the loneliness of it all. Where are your allies? How can you choose to support each other? What you can commit to is to reduce the isolation of those around you who experience the same thing.