Path to Organizational Health and Balance Workshop: Foundational Module 1 of the Genuine Contact Program

For Executives, Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Team Leaders, HR and OD specialists

It is advantageous to step back and explore your foundational beliefs about an organization and its health and balance (organizational wellness). Whether you are embarking on some kind of organizational improvement project, restructuring, setting out to fix an organizational problem, or simply want to understand your organization's performance better, this learning program will be of benefit to you.

Your learning will assist you in upgrading the operating matrix of your organization:

  • conserving energy including time and financial resources
  • supporting flexibility to meet challenges and opportunities effectively
  • maintaining an organization at its optimal health and performance.

Leadership skillfulness with the operating matrix of the organization is a leadership capacity that is increasingly necessary and useful in these rapidly changing times. This is an excellent learning program for your leadership team to take together as it provides essential questions that stimulate important conversations for the team.

Skill and Capacity Development

In this learning program you will discover:

  • Key questions for looking at your own organization from a practical holistic framework
  • Insights and knowledge to reduce the gap between the potential and results
  • insights and knowledge to nourish a culture of leadership
  • Increased capacity to assist your organization to thrive
  • Increased leadership skills, knowledge and capacity for leading in a culture requiring agility, flexibility, and solutions in a performance environment of constant change
  • Skills, tools, and knowledge to improve employee engagement
  • An understanding of how to work with the Grief Cycle that affects personal and organizational well-being
  • Simple tools to take back to your organization for initiating conversations about what is needed in the operating matrix of your organization
  • Knowledge of how to increase the capacity of your organization to work to positively impact your bottom line: the effectiveness of training programs, the effectiveness of customer service and quality assurance, health and well-being of your employees, and a reduction of stress-related costs
  • Tips and knowledge for improving employee engagement
  • A peer-to-peer mentoring circle for ongoing learning

The learning program includes 7 segments. Approximate times for your work with each segment are suggested, totaling approximately 19 hours of guided learning.

  • Segment 1: Discerning your Business and/or Development Goal. Plan for 1 hour.
  • Segment 2: Basics of the Path to Organizational Health and Balance. Plan for 2 hours.
  • Segment 3: Deeper Look at the Path to Organizational Health and Balance. Plan for 2.5 hours.
  • Segment 4: Origins of the Genuine Contact Tools. Plan for 2 hours.
  • Segment 5: Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact. Plan for 30 minutes.
  • Segment 6: Real-Time Learning. March 24 & 31, 2023, 9am – 1pm EDT
  • Segment 7: Real-time Mentoring Circle. June 9, 2023, 9am – 12pm EDT

Packaged Learning Opportunity

Path to Organizational Health and Balance is the prerequisite learning for Achieving and Regenerating Organizational Health and Balance. When you register for both together, you'll receive $100 off your total registration fee. Add both workshops to your cart before checkout and the discount will automatically apply.

* Early Bird Discount available until March 3, 2023. Regular registration of $297 thereafter.

Your Facilitators

Birgitt WilliamsPhoto of Birgitt Williams, as one of the creators of the Genuine Contact program, has skillfully facilitated the Genuine Contact program workshops since 1990 as they were being created, tested, researched for effect, and developed into what became the Genuine Contact program. Birgitt brings her unique skills in assisting people to access their full intelligence individually and collectively. Birgitt is passionate about assisting individuals and organizations of individuals achieve breakthroughs. Birgitt's lifetime commitment has been to nourishing a culture of leadership.

Photo of Rachel BoltonRachel Bolton has worked with clients around the world, assisting each person in creating a unique understanding of their personal state of health and balance, and developing a plan for achieving and sustaining optimum health based on their specific goals. Rachel has been a part of the Dalar team since 2005 and has been facilitating Genuine Contact workshops since 2010. Her unique blend of health coaching and Genuine Contact training bring high-level insight and practical suggestions. Learn more about Rachel.

* Early Bird Discount available until March 3, 2023. Regular registration of $297 thereafter.

Supporting Learning in Teams and Groups

At Dalar, we are big believers in whole teams and groups learning together. To support group learning, we are pleased to offer the following team discounts:

  • 20% off for 3-5 participants
  • 40% off for 6-10
  • groups of 11+ to be determined based on groups size

Project, intact, cross-functional, and leadership teams, small organizations, boards, and volunteer groups are some examples of the kinds of groups eligible for these discounts. Contact Rachel Bolton for registration details.

This offer is applicable to Early Bird and Regular Rates of registration. It cannot be combined with any other discounts available (i.e Genuine Contact Organization member discounts).

This Workshop is a Foundational Module of the Genuine Contact Program

Path to Organizational Health and Balance is Foundational Module 1 of the Genuine Contact program. Each module provides participants with a complete skill and knowledge set that is beneficial used on its own. The Genuine Contact program was designed in a modular way with intention. It is possible to learn specific modules to achieve specific business goals including leadership development, strategic planning or strategic plan refresh, team development, meeting facilitation or project turnaround. It is possible to learn to work with the entire program to support organizational change and transformation efforts. Each module is also designed to be part of a multi-purpose blended approach and you may find added benefit to take the module in conjunction with other components of the Genuine Contact Program. The module Path to Organizational Health and Balance is a pre-requisite to the Genuine Contact program modules Achieving Organizational Health and Balance; Holistic Leadership Development; Genuine Contact Organization; and Train the Trainer. Contact us to find out what the right ‘bundle’ is to meet your unique development and business goals.

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