Virtual Lab: A Simple Guide to Overcoming Assumptions

Virtual Lab: A Simple Guide to Overcoming Assumptions

We make assumptions about other people all the time. Regardless of our intentions, without taking the time to ask better questions, we can be way off the mark. Our assumptions about others can quickly erode trust and harm workplace interactions, often before we even realize what’s happened. In this interactive workshop, we’ll share simple actionable steps you can take to help improve your everyday interactions.


In this lab, you will:

• -Clear ideas on how to have the hard conversations about assumptions that lead to clarity and greater trust
• -Learn ways to ask better questions to achieve great clarity
• -Access to an indepth and robust reflection guide

Tickets: 
Free Professional, Executive & CI Gratis members
$45 General & Young Professional members  
$60 Inforum guests (non-members) 

Thank you to our facilitator: 

Ellen Patnaude has always been fascinated by how a person’s nature and lived experiences cause them to interact with the people around them. She is a Detroit, MI native and graduated from Alma College with a BA in Biology & French. She thought she wanted to be Jacques Cousteau, but her first few science-based jobs pointed clearly towards working with people. She worked for several years as a community organizer in Indiana and Ohio. Returning to Michigan in 2005, her reputation followed her for challenging people to see and be a better version of themselves, and the phone started ringing. Since then, Ellen has built an internationally recognized company supporting individuals and teams in improving everyday interactions. She recently published a new book, “I Thought You Knew… Confessions of a Chronic Assumer (and How to Stop Guessing your way through Important Interactions)”, available through your favorite online bookseller or her company website.

Ellen is a credentialed PCC-level Executive Coach (from the International Coach Federation (ICF), and certified in multiple assessment tools, including the AcuMax Index®, MRG’s Leadership Effectiveness Analysis LEA360® and Leadership Culture® assessments, Genos International’s Emotional Intelligence toolkit, and Equine-Guided Learning practices from Innovative Horizons. Her company has recently been certified as an LGBT Business Enterprise.

Ellen lives in mid-Michigan with her wife, Dani, at least one and as many as three teenagers at any given time, three cats, and a dog with way too much energy.

About Inforum Virtual Labs
Inforum Virtual Labs are online, interactive and skills-based events that bring real-world perspective from a practitioner with deep expertise in a particular field or subject. The labs are designed with top-notch instruction, and selected to complement leadership development at different stages of careers. Participants will walk away with new information and a concrete personal action plan that carries the learning into workplace practice.