Workshop: Collaborative Risktaking

Collaborative Risktaking™: Your Innovation Safety Net in a Reinvented World

Wednesday, September 29th 1:00-5:00pm
Attendees must RSVP for this event through GHC2010 Conference Registration
Limited to 600 people

Overview

The Reset Economy, a term coined by GE’s CEO, Jeff Immelt, refers to the Great Recession as more than a simple business cycle correction, but a permanent, fundamental change to how markets will operate and be influenced going forward.

Innovation is the critical differentiator of successful companies and professionals where risktaking will increasingly become the überskill in a reinvented world. Although it plays well as a standalone skill for career advancement, when combined with personal initiative, discipline, and problem-solving capabilities and skills such as effective communication, negotiations, and relationship management, risktaking becomes a portable powerhouse of transferrable skill sets. You can take them anywhere.

Whether you’re positioning yourself for a promotion, moving to a new role within your existing organization or transitioning to another company you’ll want to include personal and professional risktaking in your portfolio of skills.

Collaborative Risktaking™ includes a fast-track process for high-profile decision-making that has the power to grow your influence, increase your visibility-on-demand, and provide you with a safety net for the reinvented world.

Purpose:

An interactive professional development workshop with a focus on personal and professional risktaking for workplace differentiation and career advancement.

Agenda:

Introduction

Part 1: Personal Risktaking Style
1:00-1:45
- Assessing your natural Personal Risktaking Style (what, how)
- Table Exercise

Part 2: Personal Inflection Curve Model™ / Optimum Change Cycle
1:45-2:45
- Recognizing your “change patterns”, the benefits of initiating change at an optimum time for you, risks of missing your personal inflection point. (what, how)
- Integrating your OCC with your Personal Risktaking Style (how)
- Aligning your PIC, OCC, and Personal Risktaking Style with your organization’s formal / informal culture – (what, how)
- Table Exercises

Part 3: Global Decision Network™ / Innovation Tribes
2:45-4:00 (Break from 3:15-3:30)
- Building your Global Decision Network (GDN) for high-profile, high risk, high impact decisions (what, how)
- Leveraging your GDN for extending your reach (Credibility Spectrum)
- Table Exercise (assessing SME’s expertise – The 3 Questions Rule)

Part 4: Pulling it All Together / Decision-Points Challenge
4:00-5:00
- Role play game where participants have an opportunity to practice what they’ve learned. Part scavenger hunt (people, resources), part problem-solving, and part speed decision-making. Participants are divided into teams to solve a high-profile challenge unique to their table. Workshop leader and facilitators serve as table coaches.
- Participants are assigned to teams based on their Personal Risktaking Style.
- Teams are given 15 minutes to discuss the problem, assess and identify 1-3 core strengths of each team member, and assign roles (Scouts, Interviewers, Analyzers, Wisdom Keepers, and Strategists).
- Team members are then given 15 minutes to disperse, network, and find SMEs who can help close the skills / knowledge gaps needed to solve their table’s challenge using the “3 questions rule”.
- Team members have 15 minutes to reconvene, debrief, and pull together their decision points, recommendations, and supporting arguments.
- Final 15 minutes will include table report outs (share challenge, recommended decision, 1-3 supporting arguments / data points, lessons learned).

About Dee McCrorey

Dolores “Dee” McCrorey, Chief Risk Guru, Innovation Catalyst and Business Coach of Risktaking for Success LLC, brings her passion for partnering with innovative leaders looking to reinvent their organizations and talent into entrepreneurial thinkers, do-ers, and leaders.

Dee brings a practical approach to the challenges faced by today’s enterprise leaders and knowledge workers having spent over twenty-five years in the private sector serving in a variety of front line, management, and leadership roles for Fortune 500 companies.

A deep background in manufacturing and supply chain management working for a host of companies such as Intel, Fairchild and National Semiconductor, combined with a talent for leading high potential, high risk initiatives and programs, earned Dee a reputation as a turnaround expert with a personal brand of someone who would ‘Fix it, Get rid of it, or Reinvent it’.

Continuing to reinvent her own business, she launched The Ultimate Corporate Entrepreneur blog in 2005 and now hosts two popular BlogTalkRadio shows—Coach for Innovation and Big Dreamers! The Reinvent Success Show.

Dee is co-authoring a book on business innovation in a reinvented world with an expected release date of 2011.

Her educational background in Journalism and International Relations and a five-year expatriate experience in Europe and the Middle East provide Dee with a rich understanding of multicultural settings and international business environments. She resides in Silicon Valley, CA but loves that innovative technology allows her to extend the reach of her offerings around the world.