Tutorial Topics

The tutorial covers the following eight (8) topics:

(about 10 minutes per topic)

—to include clarifications of the following words:

The tutorial also addresses:

• Creating a safe space for communication to take place.
• Identifying and disappearing barriers to the experience of communication.
• Recognizing the differences between talking, lecturing, advising, assigning, telling, teaching, informing and communicating.
• Completing earlier (mostly childhood) communications that presently serve as barriers to producing the results you say you want for yourself and others.
• Expanding your experience of certain words—moving from the realm of understanding or knowing-about, to knowing the definitions of key words essential to the communication/leadership mastery process. Words such as goal, purpose, integrity, intention, agreement, responsibility, withholds and perpetrations.
• Expanding your ability to elicit (cause/create), welcome and value coaching and feedback.
• Ethics, standards, policies, rules, agreements
• Sex discrimination issues
• Racial and sexual bias
• Evaluation/counseling issues

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Optional/Additional Topics:

You may request conversations with the Tutorial Coach about any or all of the following subjects.

• Conducting job applicant interviews that produce your stated intentions.

• Employee Clearing and Evaluation Form (handout provided).

• Delegating: Having an employee do the job correctly the first time.

• Creating a context for zero badmouthing and negative gossip.

• Being clear about accidents and what they are about.

• Elevating everyone's integrity.

• Getting to the source of what cheating and stealing is about.

• Getting to the source of and eliminating tardiness.

• Inspiring, motivating and uplifting others.

• Your family support system.

• Handling pay raises (yours or another's).

• Identifying dissatisfied employees.

• Acknowledgment vs. praise or flattery: How to shut down an employee by saying inappropriate words.

• Correction vs. criticism.

• Identifying various expressions of covert hostility.

• Getting to the source of and disappearing covert hostility.

• Withholds: Identifying the signs.

• Writing a self-fulfilling purpose.

• Creating a team.

• Creating a context for open, honest and spontaneous communication.

There are two ways to begin the tutorial:

You may begin the tutorial with the first of the 8 tutorial topics, or, you may start by posting a question on the Manager's Tutorial Message Board. It's best to start with a problem that's foremost on your mind, in that way you create space for communication to take place about the eight specific tutorial topics.

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