Course Outline

Day 1

INTRODUCTION

  • Background
  • Role definition
  • Soft skills
  • Perception, innumeracy and human nature
  • Money, metrics and markets

1.        COMMUNICATION – PARADOX, PURPOSE, AND INTENTION

  • The purpose and intention of communication
    • To educate
    • To inform
    • To persuade
  • Conclusions

2.        KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

  • Who are you talking to?
  • World views, lenses and schemas
  • Jargon and mixed audiences
  • Location and nation
  • Level and abstraction

3.        COMMUNICATION METHODS AND TOOLS

  • Tools
  • Screen-based text and precis
  • The rule of three
  • Examples and analogies

4.        STORYTELLING

  • Ubiquity, cycles and hardwired for children
  • How can we use stories in the workplace?
  • How to tell a story
  • Non-verbal communication
  • The longevity and power of stories

Day 2

5.        PRESENTING DATA AND INFORMATION

  • Data and information – what’s the difference?
  • Detail – how much?
  • Trusted sources
  • Data and information visualisation

6.        INTERPRETATION OF DATA

  • Confirmation bias
  • Communication intention
  • Communication status

7.        FEEDBACK

  • Feedback models
    • Situation, behaviour and impact (SBI) model
    • Sandwich feedback model
    • Pendleton feedback model
    • Situation, task, action and result (STAR) feedback model
    • SAID feedback model
  • How to GET good feedback
  • Active listening
  • How to GIVE good feedback
  • Constructive feedback
  • Conclusions

Day 3

8.        COLLABORATION

  • Why collaborate?
  • What is collaboration?
  • Collaboration culture
  • Conclusions

9.        COLLABORATION TOOLS

  • Common collaboration tools and suites
    • MS SharePoint
    • Google Workspace
    • Atlassian
    • Kahootz
    • HighQ
  • How to choose a collaboration tool

10.        ANALYSING YOUR COLLABORATION SKILLS

  • Johari model
  • Conciseness        
  • Assertiveness
  • Basic assertion
  • Empathic assertion
  • Consequence assertion
  • Discrepancy technique
  • Repetition technique
  • Fogging technique

11.        EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND COLLABORATION

  • Self-awareness
  • Self-management
  • Social awareness
  • Relationship management

12.        PERSONAL BRANDING

  • Disclosure and intent
  • How to build your personal brand
    • Step 1: what do you want to do?
    • Step 2: goal alignment
    • Step 3: who are you talking to – and why?
    • Step 4: engage
  • Brand characteristics

13.        POSITIVE ATTITUDE

  • The history of PMA
  • ‘Can-do’ and faith
  • How to develop and maintain a PMA
  • Distilled positivity
  • Conclusion

14.        NETWORKING

15.        SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Requirements

Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no specific prerequisites for attendees, although some professional experience would be useful - in any discipline

Attendees

Attendees would normally be professionals with a few years experience - but the course contents are essentially universal and can be applied to most disciplines. It is likely to be useful to specialists who may be required to explain complex and uncommon concepts to lay audiences.

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