Clean and Crafty Training
Clean and Crafty Training differs from 'conventional' training in various ways. For some delegates, the differences are challenging because they are pulled out of their comfort zone. Others, for exactly the same reason, find it the change a welcome challenge - and they embrace the 'discomfort'! A major contributory factor in the difference responses is our relationship with change, difference and comfort. I believe that 'real' learning requires us to step out side our comfort zones of habit and familiarity and into the relatively unknown where we cannot so easily predict the outcome. Many resist this small step for reasons they are not aware of. They are, however, fully aware of their physiological, emotional, cognitive discomfort, and, understandably, strive to preserve the status quo i.e. they swim against the tide and, if they stay in the room, do their best to learn nothing, and may even disrupt other people's learning. Crafty Training respects and incorporates all those elements: anxiety, frustration, resistance, resentment, accepting them as the legacy of personal history playing itself out in the room. A lot of training does not work because it pays little heed to these blockages, or because trainers have a set agenda to get through in a set amount of time. Crafty events have time boundaries, of course, as well as agreed set of outcomes and a topic title. So far, so familiar to most people who attend training or seminars. However, crafty events have no fixed agenda, no role-plays, few case-studies, and delegates are discouraged from telling stories or even talking much about anyone who is not in the room. Instead, people are encouraged to think about their contribution to the ongoing problems they experience with those people and helped to develop strategies and techniques for handling things differently. This requires emotional intelligence, and that is very much part of what the training helps to develop. | EDUCATION Change Risk Active Flexible Tentative Inductive Dynamic Understanding Ideas Broad Deep Experiential Questions Process Strategy Alternative Exploration Discovery Active Initiative Whole brain Life Long-term Content Synthesis Open Imagination | TRAINING Stability Rules Passive Rigid Firm Deductive Static Memorising Facts Narrow Surface Rote Answers Content Tactics Goal Prediction Dogma Reactive Direction Left-brain Job Short-term Form Thesis Closed Common sense |
Social Effectiveness Training(SET) resonates with Warren Bennis's notion of the differences between training and education as explained in On Becoming a Leader.
The pairs listed under Education and Training in the two right hand columns above are not necessarily oppositional, nor mutually exclusive. Bennis makes some interesting and valid points. A lot of training is dull and uninspiring. That is bad enough; what is worse is that many people never give the slightest shred of evidence that they've attended a training event.
| Clean and Crafty events SET events can be tailored to your specific needs: * 45, 60 minutes general intros* 90 minute interactive * half or whole day sessions * multiple days * modular courses michaelmallows@gmail.com |
Most people probably don't think of themselves as leaders. It often seems easier to follow and not risk taking the flak.
Although you might be the exception, most people who attend SET events are in the business of influencing others e.g. managers, team leaders, teachers, parents and their children or adolescents, supervisors, counsellors, mediators, fund-raisers, social workers, parents, bullies and their targets, spouses, foster carers, coaches, trainers, public speakers, CEOs, police officers, interviewers, adoption panels, group facilitators ....
... and even if we do not seek to impact on other people's lives, we need to listen to ourselves from time to time. To tune in to the little warning voice in the back of our mind, to listen to the rumbling in our gut, to register the tension in our jaw or the fear in our heart that keeps us silent or makes us shout. They're mostly intended to get some one else to modify their behaviour!
That is, we want to lead them toward or away from some particular behaviours!
Pride or caution often prevents us speaking our truth when the truth needs to be spoken. Anxiety or pessimism often stops us from asking for what we want or prevents stretching beyond our grasp.
I want people to leave my training events with the will and the skill to act on the world with more love and less fear. To do that, all my training, coaching, supervising, speaks to people's strengths. I ask from and give a lot to the delegates.
Sure, I'm not to every one's taste, but generally people enjoy the process, have signficant personal insights, apply the principles, practice the techniques and learn to communicate craftily i.e.
Competently Respectfully Assertively Flexibly, Truthfully, Intuitively, Lovingly and Yes, with a positive attitude!
Go well
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.