Joe Slatter, RFN Advisory Group Senior Advisor presented this Power Session at the 2022 EPI Summit.

Have you ever noticed that little voice in your head doing analysis, solving problems, and preparing your sage advice while your client is talking? Maybe it’s a colleague or spouse who’s sharing a point of view and you’re waiting for a break in the action to share your bit of wisdom.

We all probably do it to some extent and that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. If we want to get more information in less time, we might consider setting our judgments aside and fully engaging curiosity for a little bit. Take a lesson from Kaldi, the goatherd who discovered coffee.

What would it look like if you were “pre-forgiven” in your conversations? Would it change your approach? Would it improve conversations?

A pit crew demonstrates teamwork in a unique and very visual way. Ranging from a handful to a couple dozen people with a single purpose. It brings together multiple people with specialized skills and one shared goal.

Learn how your team can achieve similar purpose.

In November 2021 we heard from Joe Slatter, instructor of Introduction to Decision Dynamics – powered by Better Practice™. Joe will offer insight into his methodology that teaches teams to figure out what matters together, make better decisions faster and act together with grace and accountability. Joe calls this metacollaboration. Joe has worked with thousands of business owners and individuals to help their organizations improve self-leadership and work more effectively together.

This session will:

- Highlight the importance of cross-functional collaboration

- Explore ways to improve communication

- Understand ways to expedite team focus

- Determine next steps to better collaborate

Unlike favourite sweatshirts, which should be treasured, favourite conclusions should be viewed with suspicion.

What if you knew something really simple that would make continuous improvement easier?

In these times of uncertainty, leadership matters more than ever. This session will help you identify relevant and useful practices to set a course for a more “agile” approach to leadership. It includes choosing an optimistic attitude others can share, inviting real, creative conversations and supporting accountability and collaboration, while supporting leadership at all levels.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand why leadership matters more than ever in times of uncertainty

2. Identify useful practices that promote performance and resilience

3. Learn what leadership competencies deliver more impact on business results

Ready for Next - Accelerating out of a Recession

Session 1: Embracing Uncertainty

Joe Slatter, John Lazar and Janyce Fadden introduced and discussed ways of seeing and understanding our current environment.

Learning Objectives

1. Introduce and discuss ways of seeing and understanding our environment that are particularly well suited to volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times.

2. Explore ways to set goals and plan effectively in periods of uncertainty.

3. Learn from each other. What's working? What's not?