[ESSP] Strategic Questioning and 21st Century Innovation

[Vanessa Paulman]

Strategic Questioning and 21st Century Innovation
Thursday, January 29th from 9-4:30 PM
Springfield Enterprise Center, Springfield, MA
Offered by: The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center & 
Sustainable Step New England
Please post widely. More details at 
http://ssne.org/services-strategic-questions.htm

Are you facing important, complex decisions with specific details and 
"people issues" that matter? Are you challenged by rapid change, 
competition and "stretched" resources? Are you unsure if you're 
asking the right questions?  Then please join MSBDC and SSNE for an 
executive workshop designed to help you move forward as you create 
wealth, opportunity and lasting change.

Strategic questions are one of the keys to 21st century leadership 
and innovation. They help your people, products and services perform 
better through re-design, breaking up outdated assumptions, 
generating new ideas, and shifting unproductive behavior. They focus 
on what could be, enabling you and your staff to move from "You 
should
" to "How can we..?"  They help us create a more positive, 
personally compelling future. Strategic questions enable us to 
understand and deal with global pressures on our businesses while 
helping us meet the economic, social and environmental needs of our 
customers, employees, vendors, and communities.

Through this workshop and an implementation teleconference, you'll learn:

What makes questions strategic, engaging and motivating, and how to 
ask the right questions in the right way, at the right time to get 
the most out of yourself and your organization.
How to map strategies for asking and answering strategic questions.
How to understand and respond innovatively to the emerging 21st 
century business environment.
SSNE's unique problem solving approach, The Search for Insight™, 
which you can immediately apply in your organization.  With it, your 
staff can learn to effectively apply strategic questioning in just a 
few hours, and channel their decades of experience into uncovering 
exactly what needs to happen, and how.

What others say:


We rarely invite in the same expert more than once, but we've used 
SSNE three times, with more planned. With their assistance our group 
of business leaders has become better learners: seeing their problems 
as systematic and solvable; trusting that there is a friendly and 
accessible body of knowledge in our organization; that many of their 
problems can be solved by thinking in terms of sustainability
and 
that they need to take more time and more risk in reaching out to 
speak to people with different vantage points in order to achieve a 
fresh and relevant perspective.		-Ira Bryck, Director, UMass 
Family Business Center

Workshop Overview
·	The Art and Science of Strategic Questioning
·	Leadership and Implementation through Strategic Questioning
·	Free Follow-up Teleconference: Getting Help with Implementation.

Workshop Leaders:
Beth Tener, SSNE's Executive Director, is a leader in innovation 
who's worked with over 80 companies in manufacturing, energy and the 
service sector to strengthen their internal management systems to 
enhance business performance in a rapidly changing world. From 
Fortune 500's to small family businesses, she's uncovered the common 
challenges and sensible solutions that help leaders run their 
business well, while also meeting their stakeholders' rising 
expectations for better environmental and social performance.

Paul Lipke is SSNE's Director of Programs and Training. He's known 
nationally for his pioneering work in teaching business and 
government leaders how to use strategic questioning to enhance their 
personal leadership and improve their organization's economic, 
environmental, and social performance. Recent clients include the 
Brattleboro Food Co-op, City of Cambridge, CT Clean Energy Fund, 
Franklin County Community Development Corporation, Greniers 
Photography and UMass Family Business Center. His work has been 
featured on NPR's Morning Edition

To insure you get individual attention, participation is limited. 
Previous events have sold out, so please register early. Walk-ins 
will not be permitted. After registering, you'll be sent an e-mail 
questionnaire and advance information so the presenters can better 
meet your needs, and so you'll know what crucial information to bring 
in order to get the most value from the day.

This workshop is for business leaders and their key staff. If you are 
a consultant, governmental or not-for-profit leader that works 
closely with business leaders and you wish to attend, we ask that you 
register with your business community's decision makers.

Registration: $150 per person
Special Team Discount: If more than one person from an organization 
registers for the full day, take $30 off one registration.  ($80 for 
the afternoon session and conference call only, for those who've 
already attended an SSNE strategic questioning workshop)

To register, please call MSBDC at 413.737.6712 ext. 100, or fax to 
(413) 737-2312, or click on http://ssne.org/news.htm# or email 
drandall at msbdc.umass.edu.

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Paul Lipke
Director of Programs and Training
Sustainable Step New England
31 South Street
Montague, MA 01351
Voice/Fax 413 367-2878
plipke at ssne.org
www.ssne.org
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Vanessa Paulman       
Science Outreach Coordinator
Center for Science Exploration
Hampshire College

phone: (413) 559-5792
fax: (413) 559-5438
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http://ScienceExploration.hampshire.edu


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