Conversations for Action

Conversations For Action

Making Things Happen Through Request, Promises & Accountability

This conversations for action course will teach you:

• The importance of speech acts in generating results
• The two primary conversations for action
• The four action elements for co-creating agreements
• The four elements of a request
• The different forms of promises
• The four possible outcomes when a promise is made
• How to ensure the greatest possibility of success from an agreement
• Why proactive accountability is so critical
• The three major types of trust and which is the most important
• The two sides of promise and accountability
• The importance of feedback
• Trustworthiness versus bestowing trust
• What responsibility is and its connection to trust

Here’s What You Get:

1- The Conversations for Action Reading

Laying the foundation for generating effective action and results.

2- The Practice Guide

• A full color Mind Map illustrating the four elements of effective action
• Exercises to help identify key players to make requests of
• Exercises to develop Innovator key requests
• Exercises to develop key early adopter requests
• Exercises to identify and track promises and requests
• A review of how to effectively check in with others to keep things on track
• A review of investigating current reality when it is not going according to plan

3- Audio Program

You will receive valuable audio with personal stories and a heart to heart discussion on what it takes to genuinely break through what normally stops you to new ways of relating and living. Topics include:

• Definition of promise and request
• Generating action through promise and request
• What is involved in a request
• What is involved in a promise
• Types of requests
• What orders action
• Indirect communication
• Walking out a promise
• Accountability
• It takes two
• Simple trust
• Blind trust
• Authentic trust
• Examples of blind trust
• The dance of accountability
• Trust and trustworthiness

 4- Game Changing Mindfulness Practices

Four weeks of regular mindfulness practices designed to walk you through these transformational disciplines such that they integrate into your mind, heart and body.

The mindfulness practices include:

• Mindfulness practices to effectively support making requests
• Mindfulness practices to effectively support making promises
• Mindfulness practices for releasing blame, guilt, anger or indifference
• Mindfulness practices for maintaining neutrality during messes

Click to play a sample audio segment