Offered in collaboration with the Bahá’í inspired organization ebbf (Ethical Business Building the Future, ebbf.org), this course aims at assisting participants to utilize the process of consultation to develop effective and high performing work teams built on the foundational assumption that unity is the key to excellence and success. The Bahá’í Writings unequivocally describe a consultative process as the most effective instrument for decision making. The implementation of guidance from the Bahá’í Writings is necessarily a learning process.

This course will address the prime requisites for members of a consultative team (including the alignment of values and effective communication skills), developing agreement on a set of rules for effective team consultation (including a shared framework and the respective roles of the team leader and team members), and the implementation of the consultation-action-reflection cycles.

Participants in the course will explore how Bahá’í consultation may be presented to colleagues, how to distinguish it from other decision-making practices, and what are effective steps for incorporating it into business operations.

Note: The course will feature video interviews with Bahá’í business leaders and authors in a variety of different professions. Interviewees include Michael Burke (Author, Moving Beyond Compromise), Françoise LeGoffe (International Red Cross), Lawrence Miller (Author, more info at ManagementMeditations.com), Nishat Ruiter (TED Conferences, LLC), Layli Miller-Muro (Tahirih Justice Center), and Payam Zamani (One Planet Group, BahaiTeachings.org).