Corporate Workshops:
Dreaming Reality: The Seven Phases of Creating

Dreaming Reality: The Seven Phases of Creating workshop is designed to educate participants on how to build the capacity and ability to consistently move projects, people and organizations forward with commitment, speed and agility. This workshop is designed to help individuals and organizations build the skills necessary to approach work with a powerful, creative edge. Today's challenges call for a new kind of executive and employee, one who can consistently summon innovative energies to the benefit of the individual, the organization and the customers they serve. This workshop teaches participants the skills required to answer this call.

Participants will learn to:

• turn a vision into a profitable reality
• manage change with greater velocity
• generate sustainability for projects, people and their organization
• understand why endeavors fail, gets stuck, or never stabilize
• turn breakdowns into opportunities for breakthroughs
• unleash innovation and creativity in their organization
• have projects delivered on time and within budget

Additionally, participants will learn to identify:

• key components of effective conversation
• phases organizations go through
• key statistics needed to effectively manage
• key requirements necessary to build productive teams
• ways to condition and implement change in an organization

Sample Workshop: The following is a sample workshop that outlines the standard process Jo Anne Kellert exercises to understand her client's needs, develop a workshop that integrates Dreaming Reality: The Seven Phases of Creating into those needs, and insures that the workshop is followed by efforts designed to assist participants in implementing the phases into their daily work.

Phase I: Interviews. Standard workshop includes pre-interviewing each participant. The pre-interview includes: a review of current projects, goals and commitments; their assessment of the culture operating inside of the organization; a discussion on what each individual interviewed views as impossible; and, finally, in their terms what they believe a breakthrough result would look like.

Phase II: Three-Day Workshop. Standard workshop includes a three-day on-site or off-site (budget contingent) meeting. There is a presentation of the core principles of Dreaming Reality: The Seven Phases of Creating . Participants will explore how the seven phases of creating are applicable to their current projects, goals and commitments. Participants will use the phases to: define breakthrough results; assess resources and learning required, and; create an action plan to implement process.

Phase III: Follow-up Work Days and Coaching. Standard workshop includes; one day with the entire participating group every four to six weeks. During the course of the project individual coaching calls with each participant between group sessions are fulfilled.

"Jo Anne Kellert has worked extensively with the management of RIACS for the past 18 months. Her work with us has provided a powerful, new interpretation of leadership and management which has enabled our organization to become much more effective in its work with NASA."

Peter J. Denning, Director RIACS
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field

"Jo Anne Kellert has successfully shifted the culture of our organization from a traditional management/employee relationship to a powerful and committed team which consistently produces outstanding results."

Rob Herald, Plant Manager
Becton Dickinson, Los Gatos, CA