Open workshops
Writing, language and leadership strategies for communication and team work:
Our latest programme of open workshops is now available and focuses on storytelling, cross-cultural communication, writing excellence, the language of leadership and the mental strategies that underpin successful communication and team work.
We combine the highest levels of practical communications skills with communications psychology, NLP and cognitive linguistic learning.
Once equipped with a greater understanding of the interplay between language and cognition – and the beliefs and values that drive your own and others’ communication – you can:
- Inspire, persuade and motivate colleagues and clients to work with you more effectively
- Understand more of what is important to others before you act
- Influence, connect and engage with people
- Generate the results you want through writing excellence or when talking with people
- Work collaboratively – including with virtual, global and cross-cultural teams
Coming soon in 2020
We don’t permit just anyone to influence us. Empathy, credibility and a sense of connection are required before we’re really prepared to listen. Knowing what we are triggering in others and aligning our ideas in story is a fundamental part of the way we present, influence and create change. Storytelling has the power to do what logical reason and analysis can't: to communicate a strange new idea and move people to action.
It is increasingly recognised as an important communications and leadership skill. And, although we are 'hard-wired' to respond to stories, many of us find it challenging to bring our right-brained capacity for stories into the left-brained world of business.
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This one day workshop will help you understand the importance of storytelling when presenting and speaking to groups and how to incorporate it as a natural part of what you do as a leader and communicator.
- Understand how narrative intelligence can be vital to connect with stakeholders and reach your business goals
- Learn what makes an effective story and how to follow the methodology and techniques
- Discover how to find the right type of story
- Draw on the practices of top business leaders and explore how to put storytelling into action
- Increase your leadership presence and ability to influence using storytelling
This one day workshop is for senior leaders, communicators, change managers, project managers and anyone ready for the challenge of being a leader truly able to move others to action.
See full workshop details via the link below
DATES AND BOOKING
Coming soon in 2020 – Central London.
This workshop is not yet open for booking. Please email us if you would like further information.
Coming soon in 2020
Can you pinpoint the qualities present in communications that work for you and those that don’t? And would you like a deeper understanding of how writing and language impacts us as human beings?
Writing is a major tool for doing business but it is also an unnatural activity. We are born with the instinct to speak; but not to write – and that matters. Effective business writing has to be learned and honed and benefits from a working knowledge of communications psychology.
Whether you are a consultant writing for clients or an in-house communicator working with internal or external audiences, this workshop is for you. It looks at the psychological impact of written corporate communications and explores the interplay between language and cognition. It combines journalistic approaches with insights from cognitive science. » Read further
If you want your writing to generate the best possible results in a work environment then join us on this – one of our most popular workshops. Overall it will help you shape your own and your organisation’s communication style. It will help you:
Write with greater clarity, sensitivity and impact
Gain the tools to analyse language so you can turn your intuitions into advice
Challenge and avoid opaque communication that destroys trusting stakeholder relationships and strikes at the heart of employee engagement
Dates and booking
Coming soon in 2020 – Central London.
This workshop is not yet open for booking. Please see the link below for further details or call or email us with any questions.
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Organise a workshop in your own offices - Spring 2020 offer rate of £875
We live in a connected world where our personal impact and reputation matter more than ever before. It is no longer enough just to do a good job – you need to know your strengths and for others to know them too. In order to find the most success, you must take conscious control of the messages you project - creating a consistent impact that others find easy to talk about.
And yet we rarely receive quality feedback that energises us or enables us to develop further. In this workshop, we help you gain insights into your current personal impact, identify some first steps to increase your personal effectiveness and visibility - as well as deepening your understanding of others in the team. » Read further
There will be a number of activities and a planning tool to get clearer on your strengths – as others see them – and to make developing your team and personal brand fun.
- Gain insights into your own personal impact
- Experience ‘fast-feedback’ and construct your own personal strengths statement
- Develop some first steps in communicating and cultivating your personal (and team) effectiveness.
This is a short workshop where a team of 6 -10 is ideal to provide a positive environment and a dynamic exchange of ideas. This session will provide insights, practices and feedback for up to ten people.
Sessions are available in your own offices (or other venue at additional cost) at a time of your choosing for 3-4 hours during office hours, on request. Please email with your requested date. We offer these sessions at special offer rates of only £895 per session during quieter periods. Our next offer period runs until end March 2020). See the link below for selected dates and booking.
DATES AND BOOKING
Your choice of dates when held in your offices.
This workshop is now open for online booking. Alternatively, please email us with your enquiry or suggested dates.
Organise a workshop in your own offices in 2020
Influencing and persuading is something we all do every day. Most of us want to become better at it so we can develop better work relationships in which our expertise is invited and valued.
This workshop explores the language and psychology of persuasion - particularly how to use language to guide thought and attention. It combines theory, practice and insights from cognitive psychology - helping you become more aware of the approaches, language patterns and beliefs most likely to succeed in influence situations.
Overall you will learn:
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- Powerful language skills for clarifying, challenging and inspiring others
- How to steer energy away from problems and onto outcomes and solutions
- What has to be true for you to lead and influence others
- How to prepare for and handle difficult conversations
- Draw on the best practices of top leaders – exploring other people’s needs at deeper levels to make real progress
This is a short workshop where a team of 6 -10 is ideal to provide a practice group and a dynamic exchange of ideas. This session will provide insights, practices and feedback for up to ten people.
Sessions are available in your own offices (or other venue at additional cost) at a time of your choosing for 3-4 hours during office hours, on request. Please email with your requested date. We offer these sessions at special offer rates of only £895 + VAT per session during quieter periods. Our next offer period runs until end March, 2020. See the link below for selected dates and booking.
DATES AND BOOKING
Spring offer available on selected dates in February and March 2020 – your offices.
This is now open for online booking. Alternatively, please email us with your enquiry and preferred dates.
On request during 2020
Cultural intelligence for effective communication and teamwork.
The ability to communicate effectively across geographies and cultures is increasingly important. In this workshop, we help you explore the key principles of successful cross-cultural communications, develop an understanding of how culture and values impact on communication, identify the benefits of diversity as well as potential barriers, and discover how to create synergies among individuals and teams with different cultural backgrounds. » Read further
This workshop will help you:
- Develop higher level skills as an international communicator
- Create the conditions for successful international team working
- Take away some specific techniques for making working at a distance easier
- Bring greater creativity to managing cultural challenges
- Improve your cultural intelligence and understanding of diversity
DATES AND BOOKING
Now available in-house on request
Please get in touch to request a discussion or further information. You can email us here.
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