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Just Attended the AiA Classic Workshop for Empowering People and Organizations

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January 27, 2011


Hi All,
Well I just had an exhaustive 3 days! I spent it with 12 amazing people (all consultants, scholars, speakers, etc.) and we went through the AiA Classic Workshop on “empowerment” together (8 hours each day for 3 days). A mutual friend, and consulting company from Japan, arranged for us to attend this (and paid our fee!) so I figured why not check it out?? I’ll explain how the Japanese consulting company fits into this in a minute.
At first we were all pretty disgruntled as the content is very “Self-help 101″ and many of my co-attendees are people who coach/train at the senior executive level and go WAY deeper into this stuff than this program does. But we all decided to “change our attitudes” (which is one of the main points of the workshop!!) and make of it what we wanted. Pretty smart, huh?
The whole experience created some amazing conversations, awareness, and bonds between many people. I only knew 2 other people going into this. After the first day I really thought this was a waste of time (as did most everyone), but I decided to continue the other 2 days for (if nothing else) to really get to know the other people and network.
But by the time I left last night, I knew it had not been a waste of time. However, I wouldn’t necessarily say this is THE program you should use at your company for empowering and building self awareness among your employees.
A few things I learned was that: Most of all of us share the same insecurities; I need to work on reducing the amount of negative “self talk” I allow to run around my head; there are great people with great insights that want to help me so I need to be better about asking for it; and one “ah-a” I came up with while I was there (we all had to write “a-has” to share) is: “It’s Not Failure; It’s Feedback from the Universe”. Take the feedback and use it to do better next time! So, it was THAT kind of workshop. It was pretty cool. But I KNOW, FOR SURE, it was only good because of the group who was there with me.
The other reason I attended was to meet a senior exec from ALC, a consulting firm in Japan who helps Japanese corporations grow and expand. BUT, they use American, English speaking consultants to conduct the programs for their Japanese-based clients and I am considering joining their team to (several times a year) go to Japan and work on a client’s “program” (where our team will teach each client best practices in leadership, management, marketing, sales, finance, etc.).
That explains the Japanese tie-in to this 3-day workshop.
Well, I’m pretty spent after that workshop, so I’ll write more later. I have lots more to share and new generation relations news to tell you about!
Bye for now.
Article by Lisa Orrell, Millennial & Generation Relations Expert and courtesy of Lisa’s Generation Relations Blog

Originally posted by Candice A

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