Facilitators often worry about how to bring out quiet voices. Silence can be a sign that people are withholding their ideas because they do not feel safe enough to speak up. But silence is not something to eliminate entirely! This session will explore productive and unproductive uses of silence in group meetings. Find out how high performing teams use silence well and how to talk to your team about silence.

Does your organization seem to bless anyone with an opinion about your work with the title of "stakeholder?" As a result, are you surrounded by more stakeholders than Dracula? Is trying to satisfy multiple competing interests a pain in the neck? In this session, we'll sink our teeth into the problem of stakeholder management. We'll look at how organizational structures are reflected in pressures on teams. Together we'll explore how to navigate these tensions in ways that don't suck.

We have heard a lot about “self-care”, this basic idea which is, shocker, we should take care of ourselves. As leaders, coaches, and humans, we are both experiencing and helping others who are experiencing frustration, change, conflict, frustration, unfair situations, disappointment, inconsistency, lack of autonomy, and more. How do we do our job and not get burned-out or stressed? Is it even possible?In the end, we want to start to understand what might actually be useful to do and begin to look at what might be holding us back.