Motivational Interviewer – MI

Day 2 Motivational Interviewer: Human Behavior Change: Desire, Ability, Reason & Need

Part 1/2: Discovery and Inquiry
You and your team will learn incredibly empowering ways to really understand your clients and team members’
needs and then work with them to reach the solution required and own the outcome! Motivational Interviewing
is a great tool for understanding an individual’s motivation, enabling people to recognize their own patterns, own
their personal outcomes and understand how they will achieve their goals.
Our focused and engaging program offers proven tools to help address ambivalence and engagement both on an
individual level and at a group level. These tools are an effective approach to developing skills as a
transformational leader, one who can communicate well, enhance engagement, and lead through change.
Motivational Interviewing techniques are used strategically enabling clients and team members to come to
decisions on their own about change, problem-solving and buying decisions. Gain your client’s commitment to
start actual “first steps.

Develop the Ability to:
 Recognize the benefits of Motivational Interviewing and motivational questioning
 Draw out individuals to make their own conclusions
 Increase the level and quality of information gained in a conversation
 Elicit and strengthen a person’s willingness and confidence to make changes
 Empower others to take action
 Get clients “unstuck” and willing to move forward
 Implement motivational Interviewing practice during skill-building exercises