Conversational Leadership is gaining daily in popularity. And there is a good reason for that. Conversations are the energizing fuel of leadership, even if organizations sometimes discover this the hard way when leaders underperform in their duties of motivating, leading and supporting employees through this important asset. The old saying, “people don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad bosses” remains true.

However, in witnessing the growing development of Conversational Leadership literature, such as books, articles, webinars and the like, too many organizations are still facing the dilemma of how to integrate effective training to support development in a smart way.

Developing leadership, and specifically on Conversational Leadership, requires more than a general vision of the subject and a list of best-practice tips to be applied as needed to some of the most common difficult situations.

If your goal is to establish a robust structure for Conversational Leadership empowerment, you can’t just rely on framing the issue of “critical conversations” as something you solve with some best-practices and deliver a few days of class to just let your trainees know how they should cope with it. Instead, you need to consider addressing the entire subject in a smarter and more structured way.

Join Andrea Laus and Matteo Malatesta, from SkillGym, for a discussion on developing a comprehensive Curriculum: one strategic plan based on a consistent vision, outlining all the elements required to cover not just the shortcuts, but also and mainly, the real pillars of sustainable skill set development.

In this webcast, we will talk about:

• Areas of leadership empowerment upon which to develop conversational mastery
• Leadership values around those areas, to make sure that the training delivers skills aligned with and respecting key values
• Types of conversations to practice with that cover the four areas of empowerment
• Topics that these conversations can address
• Types of people (“characters”) with whom the conversation, whatever it is, may take place
• Styles of leadership to apply
• Skills to train to master conversational leadership

Certainly, you know that experience is the most powerful ingredient of performance. Anyone with proven experience in a specific field would be the most desired player of a committed team.

Managing Critical Conversations does not make an exception: only proven experience in dealing with certain topics is what ensures the necessary level of confidence required to turn a potential crisis into an empowering moment.

However, as an L&D and HR professional, you know how long it does take to support leaders in gathering enough field experience in the most important and critical conversations using the traditional means of training. Ensuring that they are confident, effective and autonomous in dealing with those subjects can take ages and, in the end, result in being very expensive and little scalable.

AI-based Digital Role Plays offer the possibility to repeat the same conversation several times and every time to experience different nuances generated by the AI algorithm influencing the real-time flow of the conversation. At the same time, the same type of behavior can be practiced in different scenarios, with different types of persons and goals.

All this leads to extensive experience being stored in a very short time and with little effort.

The result and the benefit for the trainee are fantastic. With much more experiences in such a little time, the feeling of higher confidence – connected to the “I was here before, I know what expect” – flows much faster and becomes one of the elements contributing to the quicker and higher development of confidence in the conversational skills.

Join Andrea Laus and Matteo Malatesta, from SkillGym, for a discussion on the amazing learning triggers that a Digital Role Play can activate and discover the best strategies to implement this approach into your next leadership training program.

In this webcast, you will learn:

• Why Digital Role Play is more and more recognized by Leaders and L&D Professionals as THE best learning strategy for conversational leadership development
• How Digital Role Play can become your best ingredient for faster development of conversational leadership
• What to look for when selecting your next digital role play solution, to ensure that all the learning triggers it can potentially provide are really available