Facilitative Leadership Training: Day 1

I'm learning about Facilitative Leadership, a program put together by the good people at Interaction Institute for Social Change (@IISCblog).

Here are my top 3 highlights from today's training:

1. In the triangle below, I learned that Process and Relationships are equally important to success as Results.  "You must unlearn what you have learned." -Yoda

2. There are three parts to a discussion: open, narrow, and close.  What I didn't know was that I, like most people, am most comfortable in one of these parts over the other two.  This means that if I'm discussing something with a person whose preference is to open the discussion while I'm a closer, we could have some trouble communicating together if we're not aware of it :)

3. This wasn't from the curriculum, but I talked to a colleague in the training who taught me to find out "where everybody gets their cookies." This is a way of saying that each person identifies a different source of reward from his or her job, and we're always trying to get to that place.  For the people we're working with, learn their source in order to create win/win scenarios!