The Trusted Advisors with Open Space event was a Hit in Las Vegas!
I asked, "How many of you know about/have participated in an Open Space event?" We were surprised to see only about 8 - 10 hands raised in a group of over 150 attendees at the global Association of Change Management Practitioners in Las Vegas this past week, (April 1-4, 2012) where we discussed Success Secrets of Trusted Change Advisors.
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"First people need to know you, then like you, then trust you."
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What a pleasure it was to then offer Open Space following an energized, robust Q & A discussion with this elite group of colleagues pictured below. You can see the engagement in faces & body language in the full set of conference photos here .
I'll be sharing the handout via a regular Reveln blog post soon. You can also access it via LinkedIn.
- We welcome you to the dialog via our new "Trusted Advisors" LinkedIn group, which is an open, join-able group. Check out the session Slideshare & photos there.
Open Space photos by Deb Nystrom, Creative Commons license, taken at the global ACMP 2012 conference.
Discussion topic: What really matters now in being a trusted change advisor? ...and in the near future?
Panelists, facilitators, taken after our presentation & Open Space event at the ACMP 2012 global change conference in Las Vegas. From right to left: Liz Guthridge - Session Facilitator, Connect Consulting Group; Deborah Nystrom - Open Space facilitator (me); Reveln Consulting & CMRsite.com; Jim Bohn, PhD., Global Director, CMO - Johnson Controls; Gail Severini, Conner Partners; Michael Nestor, Vice President, Head of Change Management, Bayer Group
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And yes, it was Vegas.
Photos by Deb Nystrom, Creative Commons license, one of my fun Vegas photos taken by Tim during a walk through the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas before our dinner reservation at Tao, at the Venetian.Meanwhile, if any of you are in my consultant & coach, or small business circles, you may be interested in a free webinar I'm doing this evening on LinkedIn.
From the social media side of what I do in the consultant/coach world, I'm offering a LinkedIn free webinar tonight, Thursday, April 5th at 9 p.m. ET, including new LinkedIn updates geared to consultants, coaches & small business owners. More information about tonight's free webinar is here.
There are updates coming to LinkedIn. One of them is the "People you May Know" function. You can read my post about this via today's Social Media Learning Lab post here.
Scott Allen, from LinkedIntelligence.com also recommends using this popular "People You May Know" feature at least once a month. He ALSO recommends clearing out people you don't know as well.
I see the result of doing this = a robust, more accurate networking list that helps create attention and traction among those who best know you. This then helps create the ultimate result, referencing one of my favorite sayings in building trusted, mutually beneficial connections: the know, like, trust quote above.
LinkedIn is a great test of trust, as there are many decisions I make about who I will and won't link to on this platform. Do you agree?
Thanks for the read through, stopping by, and, as always, your comments.
Warm regards, ~ Deb











