How confident are you in your cross functional collaboration capabilities? Can you successfully lead across business and operations silos? Or are you more comfortable communicating with colleagues who use the same professional terminology and solve problems the same way you do?
Today’s increasingly complex and interrelated business environments call for individuals, teams and organizations who are pro-active and cross-functionally poised to focus on strategic agility while delivering value across business, human resources, and operations units. Deconstruct traditional communication and collaboration barriers to build bridges across the Sales-Engineering Interface®. Incorporate complex problem solving values, principles, and tools into your own professional competencies and toolkits of choice. Continuously focus on asking the right questions to solve the right problems which result in continuously delivering the right solutions that people trust. Become more professionally visible, cross-functionally relevant, and strategically valuable as everyone gets to where they really need to go, with you. One millimeter at a time.
- Breakouts and chapter meetings: 45 – 75 minutes
- Workshops: 2-hour and 4-hour
- Contact: ba*****@ba*************.com or +1 734.355.1118. Branded and unbranded speaker one-sheets available upon request. Please share more details on the Contact Form at the bottom of the page.
Program Title: “3 Questions, 4 Agreements, and 5 Whys Catalyze Professional Innovation.”
Keywords: Professional Innovation, Cross Functional Leadership, Strategic Agility, Complex Problem Solving
Format: Breakouts, Chapter Meetings, Workshops. Program Length: 45 – 75 minutes, two-hour, and half-day sessions. HRCI: Business. PMI Talent Triangle: Strategic Business and Management; Leadership.
When it comes to problem-solving, do you prefer predictability or do you thrive in uncertain and ambiguous environments? Are you more comfortable scaling efficiencies in departments perceived as cost-centers or do you thrive in complex, uncertain and non-traditional environments fueling revenue-generation and strategic agility? If you ask the right questions, the right way, to solve the right problems, the answer to these questions is not an “either-or,” binary response.
Professional innovation magic happens when we move one millimeter beyond what is professionally comfortable towards what is really possible, together. The journey leverages 3 Questions, 4 Agreements, and 5 Whys to fuel professional innovation and success. Is it time to rewire your professional DNA? Become more professionally visible, cross-functionally relevant, and strategically valuable as you create innovative yet robust business outcomes together. Transform into a go-to resource for your organization. Create and sustain greater strategic business and human capital value: together. Get everyone to where they really need to go, together. One millimeter at a time.
Really liked how you broke down pushing yourself out of your comfort zone into manageable steps that are much less intimidating. Very good message. Thank you.” ~ KH, PMI conference attendee
Program Title: “Transform Silo-Think by Leveraging Strategic Agility Mindset and Complex Problem-Solving.”
Keywords: Professional Diversity & Inclusion, Cross Functional Leadership, Strategic Agility, Complex Problem Solving
Format: Breakouts, Chapter Meetings, Workshops. Program Length: 45 – 75 minutes, two-hour, and half-day sessions. HRCI: Business. PMI Talent Triangle: Strategic Business and Management; Leadership.
Who are the best problem-solvers in your organization: regardless of job title, pay grade, level of education, generation, and professional discipline? When people who are hired because they solve problems differently only problem-solve within departmental silos and hiring tiers, the value of their solutions is under-recognized and under-utilized.
Continuous, non-linear change is the new professional constant. Become more proactive and anticipatory of what is new, next and changing by incorporating strategic agility into your hiring, onboarding, management and leadership processes. Poke holes in your organization’s traditional value silos. Then, leverage Complex Problem Solving tools to upskill and reskill a workforce of cross-functional problem-solvers focused on creating greater strategic business and human capital value. Together. Retain employees and clients co-invested in continuously creating, implementing, and sustaining your organization’s value: together.
Babette was invested in making sure her stories resonated with our members and they had key takeaways they could implement into their businesses.” ~ President ICF Michigan
Program Title: “Do Your Business Cases Translate The Value of Change Across Your Organization?”
Keywords: Strategic Agility, Cross Functional Leadership, Complex Problem Solving, Customer Retention
Format: Breakouts, Chapter Meetings, Workshops. Program Length: 45 – 75 minutes, two-hour, and half-day sessions. HRCI: Business. PMI Talent Triangle: Strategic Business and Management; Leadership.
Some projects offer individuals and teams opportunities to step into a bigger story than just project, program or portfolio completion as you develop into cross-functional, collaborative leaders together. Have you ever been involved in a project that did not want to fit neatly into the traditional business case model and internal template you use? Did you explore one millimeter further? Or did group think and the status quo stifle innovation and creativity?
There always is a story behind every customer need and specification contributing to a business case. Some stories are inconvenient for conventional solutions, requiring teams to step up and advocate to redefine the right problem to be solved. When you choose to ask the right questions the right way to continuously solve the right problems together, you not only solve problems together. You also build trust together. Using a real-life scenario, discover how Complex / Wicked Problem Solving tools and a combination of courage, curiosity, and critical thinking skills transform business cases into valuable avenues for change in your and your clients’ organizations.
Babette Ten Haken is a speaker that builds relationships and is genuinely interested in fulfilling the needs of your event. She engaged the audience and organizers even before arriving at the event. Clients looking to increase value to their customers, by providing insightful content about the connections between businesses and customers, shall include Babette in their line up to blow them away.” ~ Regional Quality Conference Chairperson and Chapter President
- How I can best serve your next organization or association event? Contact: ba*****@ba*************.com or +1 734.355.1118. Read more about Babette Ten Haken’s story. Branded and unbranded speaker one-sheets available upon request.
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