Running Effective Downlink Sessions Top 10 Energizers

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Running Effective Downlink Sessions Top 10
Energizers
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The Session Charge

• Bring Everyone onto the Same Page re
  Collaborative Language Concepts
• Support and Accelerate the Progress of
  Collaborative AIM Team Goals
• Begin to Plan for Testing

Everyone Leaves With a List of 5-10 Robust Action
Steps
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1 Energizer Remember Guiding Design Principles

• The Session Itself Runs on Specific (Effective)
  Questions
• Each Activity is Framed for the Participants
  
• What/Who/How/Why
• The Entire Session is Paced to
• Engage the Audience and Keep it
  Engaged
• Plan to Connect the Audience with Each Other
• (Offers and Requests)
• Be Flexible Innovative
• Have Fun!

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Energizer 2 Questions to Run On

• What changes or tests by teams have the potential
  to generate the most significant actions and
  results during Action Period 1?
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• What is the next thing each of us needs in order
  to move closer to the aim of our team and the
  Collaborative as a whole?
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• What does our team or organization have to
  offer/give to others in the DSA that will
  accelerate or help their progress?
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• What action can I take to inspire and give
  courage to others 1) on the Collaborative Team,
  2) in my organization, and/or 3) the rest of the
  organ donation system?
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• What are 5 to 10 robust action items that will
  accelerate and increase the progress of our team
  during Action Period 2?
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Energizer 3 Framing

• Set the Tone Dont Just Let It Evolve
• Request That People Be A Certain Way
• Present a Clear Charge
• Listen in a Certain Way
• Listen for Certain Things

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A Special Kind of Listening

Dont Judge, Evaluate, Critique Take a break
from that kind of
listening Instead,
Listen to Connect Use today to search for new

possibilities
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Energizer 4 Keep the Focus on How Do We
Move Forward With Others in
Collaborative Ways? Focus on Solutions and
Mission?
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Energizer 5 Be Aware of Creating Net Forward
Energy

What We Thinkand What We Say Makes All the
Difference.
use Effective Questions to Generate Net Forward
Energy
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Net Forward Energy



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More Positives Than Negatives
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Energizer 6 Pace Your Sessions Keeping It Short
A Powerful Cycle

• Short Presentation
• Effective Question to the Audience
• Varied Approach to Generating Answers
• Volunteers Share Answers
• Reward/Value Participation and Answers

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Energizer 7 Connecting The Audience with Each
Other

• How do we access the resources we need?
• How do we unlock the natural abundance of the
  world?
• What does each of us need to do to make this
  happen?

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Energizer 8 Requests and Offers

• Accessing the Abundance of Knowledge and
  Experience in the Room
• gtLead to Deals
• gtCauses Action and Results
• gtCreates the Futurein the
  Present Moment
• Focuses All on the real work that needs to get
  done.
• The Questions to Ask
• What do I need?
• What Can You Do for
  Me?
• What Can
  I Do For You ?

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Energizer 9 Flexibility,
Innovation, Fun

• Video Vignettes that Capture Key
• Learnings
• Reward Participants with Gifts
• Design Music to Add to the Energy
• Reinforce the Mood
• Create an Environment that
• is User Friendly Generates Engagement
• Listen to and Reflect on What is Happening

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Energizer 10Talk About the Basics
Connecting Them to the Work of the Collaborative

• Review the Collaborative and Team Charter and the
  Content of the Storyboard/Prework
• Be prepared to Discuss the Improvement Model and
  have an advocate in the room
• Reflect on the basics of the Change Package
  Measurement Strategy
• Share OPO/DSA Successes from Collaborative
• Focus on the support that this home team can
  provide, and the work it can share
• Spend some time in depth on one topic Ex. DCD
• Share and Address specific ACTIONS that can be
  tested RE HLTPs.

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Adopt our Learning Session Dynamics

• Intensive
• Focused
• Highly Interactive
• Grounded in the Proven Collaborative Methodology
• Engaging Speakers and Leaders
• Producing Net Forward Energy
• An Abundance of Resources

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Following Up

• Use the downlink as an opportunity to say thank
  you and to make offers and requests specifically
  with regards to the the High Leverage Transplant
  Practices (HLTP)