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Client List by Industry

Partial Client List

Accenture

Bank of America

Bayer

Cargill

Caterpillar

ExxonMobil

GE

Genentech

IBM

Jones Day

Masterfoods

McKesson

Merrill Lynch

Microsoft

Northrop Grumman

Nokia

Pepsico

Pfizer

Philips

PWC

Texas Instruments

Time Warner

Wells Fargo

Whole Foods Market

Communication Workshop Using MBTI and The Emissary Process Sample Agenda

Goals

  • Build unity between departments.
  • Learn and practice essential communication skills.
  • Practice problem-solving skills incorporating creativity and resource/idea sharing.

Day 1 Morning Outline

  • Interactive icebreaker to establish mindset for experiential activities.
  • Problem-solving activity to focus on interactions and whether or not they are working well.
  • Small groups develop and rank list of qualities that demonstrate effective listening.
  • Participants practice active listening skills in pairs.
  • Pairs work on sending messages and then discuss individual strengths and weaknesses.
  • Trios practice active listening, sending messages and observing using real world topics.

Day 1 Afternoon Outline

Day 2 Morning Outline

  • Interactive exercise to begin discussion of the obstacles to giving and receiving feedback.
  • Large group defines feedback and reviews guidelines for giving and receiving feedback.
  • Self-evaluation with peer input as to feedback skills.
  • Emissary Process: Small teams discuss their relationships with other departments, then engage in a self-assessment and feedback exercise with the other departments.

Day 2 Afternoon Outline

  • Great Creations: Groups subdivide into to build identical halves of a bridge.
  • Teams prepare presentations on findings, new commitments and action steps.

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