Thursday, March 8th, 2018
The first full day of the program honed in on “Leadership and Decision-Making” with Meredith Myers, and “Program Design & Innovation” with Gray Garmon and Katie Krummeck.
Meredith Myers (Executive Director, Job Crafting) focused on the dynamics of teamwork, and surfaced communication tools to boost collaborative effort and team problem solving.
Meredith Myers, University of Pennsylvania
The session centered around four core objectives:
Realize the power of our questions and the role inference plays in creating our organizational realities. In her words, “There is no getting rid of bias – but there is ‘being aware of it,’ and deciding how you want to work with it. … When we surface [our biases], we become more predictable, others become more predictable, and we realize we have more options.”
Develop active listening and perspective-taking skills to better understand and engage with others (even when they behave in problematic ways). Myers claimed,
“Active listening is an orientation towards life.”
Practice with- and gain insight into a real work challenge of personal importance.
Leverage the skills of advocacy and inquiry to further collaborate and navigate difficult conversations.