The System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction (SAVI®)
January 12, 2027 9:00 AM CST to January 13, 2027 5:00 PM CST
United Way of Houston
50 Waugh Drive
Houston, TX 77008
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The System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction, or SAVI® (pronounced like “savvy”), is a practical and compelling tool to add to your coaching, leadership development, and/or self-development practice.
SAVI® is a unique and powerful system that offers an objective map of communication behaviors based on theoretical roots in the fields of communication, group dynamics, leadership, and management. The SAVI® map pinpoints specifically what a person is saying that is likely hindering their effectiveness and provides options for different behaviors they could use. It can also help you see how your communication behaviors and patterns influence responses in others. Perhaps most importantly, SAVI® can map your internal dialogue, describing how what you’re saying to yourself (or silently to others) influences your state of mind, providing options to help you navigate to more task relevant, goal oriented, and relationship supporting behaviors.
Benefits
Originally developed as a research tool by Anita Simon and Yvonne Agazarian, SAVI® has been used for over 40 years by leaders, teams, consultants, psychologists, teachers, spouses, and parents to analyze communication patterns, reduce conflict and increase collaboration. SAVI® is a communication tool that provides a systematic, objective analysis of what makes conversations succeed or fail, based on both what we say and how we say it. This introductory workshop is relevant to anyone who wants to improve their communication skill and insight. Using SAVI®, one can intentionally and predictably:
- Identify and understand communication problems more clearly.
- Guide yourself in shifting unproductive collaborations or meetings by intervening in and changing common, unsatisfying patterns.
- Change how we come across to others when we aren't sure how – regardless of personality or style.
- Modify how we talk to ourselves as we coach and work with others.
- Apply specific, effective strategies.
Agenda
Day 1: Develop Competency with the Map
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Day 2: Use the Map to Guide Interventions
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For ICF-Certified Coaches
Earn 10 Core Competency and 2 Resource Coach Continuing Education (CCE) credits for this workshop.
Speakers
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Alida Zweidler-McKay, MBA has been coaching executives, entrepreneurs, and teams from small businesses to Fortune 10 companies for over 20 years. She uses SAVI® with teams and individuals to improve communications and problem-solving and teaches SAVI® in the Coaching Leaders program for Groupworks Global. In addition to being a certified SAVI® trainer, Alida is also a SAVI® Master Coder, reflecting her experience in coding conversations for research purposes. Personally, she has found SAVI® to be incredibly useful in her roles as spouse, mother, daughter and community volunteer. Alida has a BA from Swarthmore College and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While living in Houston in the early 2000’s, Alida was an active member of HODN, and is looking forward to reconnecting. |
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Allan Rubin, BS, MBA is an organizational development consultant with over 30 years of experience focused on continuous improvement, change management, and team performance. Allan is skilled in designing and facilitating meetings, workshops, and conferences and is particularly adept with applying theories, frameworks, and approaches in practical, fit-for-purpose ways – including SAVI®! He is a Birkman Master Certified Professional, and holds Kantor, Blanchard, and Hogan certifications. He’s a 20-year member of HODN, an 11-year member of The Systems-Centered® Training & Research Institute (SCTRI), and is progressing toward becoming a Licensed SCT Practitioner. Allan’s work has taken him around the world, serving clients in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, The Netherlands, and the UK. He has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Houston. |
Tickets
$500.00 Workshop Ticket
$400.00 Earlybird rate before December 4
$600.00 Workshop Ticket
$500.00 Earlybird rate before December 4
