Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women

Courageous Conversations

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What

Courageous Conversations are the ones you don't like having because typically what you have to say may not be well received. Most people avoid them until they have to, by which time it is more difficult to achieve a good result. If you learn how to do them skillfully, you can discover how liberating, constructive and time saving they become. They are the means by which to have influence and impact.

Courageous Conversations cut through to the essence of issues. They encompass truth, integrity, accountability, and responsibility. Such conversations inherently involve an element of risk, which in some circumstances can have very significant implications. The challenge of Courageous Conversations is to address the topics of VALUE, COURAGE and FEAR and the elegant skills of dialogue.

• Situations where Courageous Conversations are very effective
• Breaking through "groupthink", encountering resistance to new ideas
• Facing individuals or groups with strong vested interests
• Engaging closed, defensive or prickly people
• Admitting an error or shortcoming - being accountable
• Holding other people to account
• Intimidating situations where there is a power imbalance
• Fostering improved performance in others.

Each week we will explore an element of Courageous Conversations. You will have something to practice in between each teleconference. By the final session you will have the tools required to develop your skills and discover the freedom that comes as you advance your practice.

1. Creating the Results You Want - What really matters!

Tuesday 20th October 11.00am EDST

Being purposeful, visionary and outcome focused is crucial to your success. You will learn to distinguish between wants and needs, to be clear about what you want with others.

2. The Ring of the Truth - Facing Facts & Distilling the Essence of What to Say for Maximum Impact.

Tuesday 27th October 11.00am EDST

You will learn the discipline of sorting the facts from fiction and being clear and non-judgmental about them. Being clear and specific helps us focus on what is helpful and enabling. The truth sets us free! Its power is in the simplicity.

3. Courage & Compassion - Dealing with Risk, Fear & Emotions - an Empowered Response.

Tuesday 3rd November 11.00am EDST

You will learn how to use your emotions constructively as a source of intelligence and a means of leveraging your effectiveness.

4. The Art of Dialogue...Building Interest and Wisdom and Balancing Advocacy with Inquiry.

Tuesday 10th November 11.00am EDST

You will learn how to use the art of skilful conversation to ensure your needs and others' needs are respected to build common understanding and commitment

5. From Lose:Lose to Win:Win - Responding to Drama, Resistance & Opposition.

Tuesday 17 November 11.00am EDST

You will learn how to respond to your own tendencies to be drawn into drama so you make win:win a sincere option.

6. Who's Responsible! What is in my Power & What is Not?

Tuesday 24th November 11.00am EDST

You will learn how to not to give your power away inadvertently. You will discover the joy that comes with choice.

Benefits
This teleconference format delivers many benefits for busy rural and regional women (men are also welcome!):

• Access to very high calibre presenters that rural communities would not readily have access to
• No travel and fuel costs
• No accommodation costs
• No baby sitting/child care costs
• No time away from family or farm for 2-3 days
• 1 enjoyable hour per morning every week (after kids are at school and before lunch)
• All you need is a landline phone to participate (although prior to participation web access is necessary to register).

Who

Sarah Cornally is one of Australia's most sought after strategic leadership advisors. She is also a mentor, facilitator, speaker, trainer and executive coach with a finely honed ability for spotting maximum leverage points in businesses, people and organisations.

Over the past 20 years Sarah has worked at executive and board levels in many multinational organisations, government departments and small businesses in the areas of:

• Strategic leadership advice and mentoring
• Organisational change and issue resolution
• Effective group dynamics
• Executive coaching.

She has been providing executive coaching services for over 20 years on both personal leadership effectiveness and business influence strategies to Board Directors, CEOs, MD, senior executives and high potential talent. Sarah is also a facilitator of the Mastering the Boardroom course for AICD.

Sarah has extensive experience across all areas of industry, commerce and government. Her client list includes Coca Cola Amatil, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Ernst & Young, Macquarie Bank, Network 10, Pearson Education, Phillips Fox Lawyers, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Vodafone, to name a few.

How the Seminar Works

Prior to the teleconference
1. Register below.
2. Make payment for complete series or single session.
3. Material relevant to the teleconference will be made available prior to the session.
4. Dial in directions will be provided to each participant on the Monday before the teleconference.
5. All questions can be registered during the teleconference and you will go in a queue. This does not disrupt listening but simply registers your number in a queue. 15 minutes is allocated at the end of the presentation for Q&A. Those that registered during the presentation will be brought into the conference call in order to ask their question. The process will be explained to you at the beginning of the conference call by the facilitator.

During the teleconference
1. Each participant will use their dial in details to connect to teleconference at 11am EST/EDST on the given date*.
2. Each teleconference will last 1 hour including question time at the end.

After the teleconference
1. Where applicable other resources will be available to participants on the FAAW website.
2. The teleconference will be recorded for future download for a limited period. This is available only to those who registered for the session. It is available for review or for those unable to attend the teleconference live. These downloads are for your use only and not to be transferred, copied or sent to any other person.
3. At the end of the series you may be asked to participate in an online survey (Survey Bob). We encourage you to participate in this as it helps us to deliver quality events.

*The teleconferences will be held on Tuesday mornings from 11.00am - 12o'clock
(Eastern Daylight Saving Time - 11.00am NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS; 10.00am QLD; 9.30am NT; 10.30am SA; 8.00amWA)

(Eastern Standard Time in NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS; 11.00am QLD; 10.30am NT; 10.30am SA; 9.00am WA).

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