Course Outline
Day 1
INTRODUCTION
- Context and background
- Role definition
- The importance of soft skills
- Perception, numerical literacy, and human behaviour
- Money, metrics, and market dynamics
1. COMMUNICATION – PARADOX, PURPOSE, AND INTENTION
- Purpose and intention behind communication
- To educate
- To inform
- To persuade
- Key takeaways
2. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
- Identifying your audience
- Perspectives, mental models, and frameworks
- Jargon and mixed audiences
- Cultural and national context
- Level of detail and abstraction
3. COMMUNICATION METHODS AND TOOLS
- Available tools
- Screen-based text and summarisation
- The rule of three
- Using examples and analogies
4. STORYTELLING
- Prevalence, cycles, and innate human connection
- Applying stories in the workplace
- Techniques for effective storytelling
- Non-verbal communication cues
- The enduring power of narratives
Day 2
5. PRESENTING DATA AND INFORMATION
- Distinguishing between data and information
- Determining appropriate levels of detail
- Establishing credibility through trusted sources
- Data and information visualisation techniques
6. INTERPRETATION OF DATA
- Addressing confirmation bias
- Clarifying communication intent
- Understanding communication status
7. FEEDBACK
- Feedback models
- Situation, Behaviour, and Impact (SBI) model
- The 'Sandwich' feedback method
- Pendleton feedback model
- Situation, Task, Action, and Result (STAR) feedback model
- SAID feedback model
- Strategies for receiving valuable feedback
- Practicing active listening
- Delivering effective feedback
- Providing constructive criticism
- Summary
Day 3
8. COLLABORATION
- The value of collaboration
- Defining collaboration
- Fostering a collaborative culture
- Key conclusions
9. COLLABORATION TOOLS
- Popular collaboration suites
- MS SharePoint
- Google Workspace
- Atlassian
- Kahootz
- HighQ
- Criteria for selecting the right tool
10. ANALYSING YOUR COLLABORATION SKILLS
- The Johari Window 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
- Degree of disclosure and intent
- Building your personal brand
- Step 1: Defining your objectives
- Step 2: Aligning goals
- Step 3: Identifying your audience and their needs
- Step 4: Engaging effectively
- Key brand characteristics
13. POSITIVE ATTITUDE
- The history of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
- Cultivating a 'Can-do' mindset and confidence
- Developing and maintaining a PMA
- Focusing on constructive positivity
- Summary
14. NETWORKING
15. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Requirements
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No specific prior qualifications are required. However, some professional experience would be advantageous, regardless of the industry.
Attendees
Participants are typically professionals with several years of experience. The content is universal in nature and applicable to most disciplines. It is particularly beneficial for specialists who frequently need to explain complex or rare concepts to non-specialist audiences.
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- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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