What To Do When the Room is Divided
How to break the tension in the room when decisions need to be made.
Someone has dug into a position. Someone else is just as sure they're right. The meeting is at a stand-still and people won’t move until you do something about it.
That's a strategic moment many leaders and group facilitators dread. Disagreements can lead to productive conversations and good outcomes. They can also lead to stalemate.
In this webinar, you’ll learn a strategy for guiding a divided group to authentic agreement versus theater alignment.
Session Objectives
To learn a proven and practical strategy for:
Why attend
For anyone who leads of facilitates meetings where people often disagree or don’t raise their objections. If you want to know what to do when a room goes quiet after someone expresses a disagreement, this is for you.
Featuring:
Beth Yates
Senior Consultant
Interaction Associates
Beth O'Neill
Senior Consultant
Interaction Associates
As a seasoned trainer and facilitator, Beth’s mission is to help managers and teams collaborate to achieve stellar results.
Beth participated in Interaction Associates’ Essential Facilitation® workshop in 1989, and it changed the trajectory of her career and her life. She joined Interaction Associates as a Senior Consultant in 1999 and has more than 20 years’ experience working in organizational consulting. Prior to joining our team, she worked as a trainer and organizational development consultant at AG Consulting. She has worked internally in organizations as a facilitator, training designer, and deliverer. She has also consulted as an external partner doing the same work.
Beth’s extensive client experience includes engagements with CoStar, Curtis Wright Flow Control, Dick's Sporting Goods, Dolby Laboratories, eBay, General Mills, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Moody’s, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo.
Her IA favorite practice is the one that gets a group of people with disparate experiences to successfully collaborate. She finds it’s different with every group and enjoys introducing different techniques to fresh faces.
Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from California State University-Humboldt. She is certified in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and is a trained Life Coach and Community Mediator.
Beth works with leaders to create collaborative work environments. She is passionate about empowering leaders to build trust, engagement and foster collaboration to drive strong business results.
Beth joined Interaction Associates in 1993, and currently serves on our Board of Directors. She contributed to the development of our “Mastering Meetings™” and “The Coaching EDGE®” workshops. Prior to joining IA, Beth worked in the television news and aerospace industries.
Her published work includes “How to Lead Effectively in Virtual Environments” (CLO Magazine), “How to Shape Your Company Culture Before It’s Too Late” (Fast Company), and “Go Ahead, Give Your Boss a Piece of Your Mind – Just Do It Effectively” (Fast Company).
Beth’s extensive client experience includes engagements with Bank of Hawaii, Colorado Children’s Hospital, Credit Human, eBay, Genentech, Gilead, Invesco, Making Waves Academy, PayPal, Putnam, Salesforce, Stanford Children’s Health Center, Stanford University, StubHub, TPC, and Twitter.
Beth practices The Interaction Method™ daily, both at work and at home.
Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and The Whitman School of Management. She also holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Hartford's School of Communication. Beth is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coach Federation, and a Certified NLP Coach by the Academy of Leadership Coaching and NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming).