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 is your audience?
- Worldviews, lenses, and schemas
- Jargon and mixed audiences
- Location and national context
- Level and abstraction
3. COMMUNICATION METHODS AND TOOLS
- Tools
- Screen-based text and summaries
- The rule of three
- Examples and analogies
4. STORYTELLING
- Ubiquity, cycles, and our innate connection to stories for children
- How to utilize stories in the workplace
- Techniques for telling a compelling story
- Non-verbal communication
- The lasting power and impact of stories
Day 2
5. PRESENTING DATA AND INFORMATION
- Data versus information – understanding the difference
- Level of detail – how much is necessary?
- Trusted sources
- Data and information visualization
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 receive constructive feedback
- Active listening
- How to deliver effective feedback
- Constructive feedback
- Conclusions
Day 3
8. COLLABORATION
- Why collaborate?
- Defining collaboration
- Fostering a collaborative culture
- Conclusions
9. COLLABORATION TOOLS
- Common collaboration tools and suites
- MS SharePoint
- Google Workspace
- Atlassian
- Kahootz
- HighQ
- How to select the right collaboration tool
10. ANALYSING YOUR COLLABORATION SKILLS
- 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
- Disclosure and intent
- Steps to build your personal brand
- Step 1: Define your objectives
- Step 2: Align goals
- Step 3: Identify your audience and purpose
- Step 4: Engage
- Brand characteristics
13. POSITIVE ATTITUDE
- The history of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
- The 'Can-do' spirit and faith
- Strategies for developing and maintaining PMA
- Distilled positivity
- Conclusion
14. NETWORKING
15. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Requirements
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No specific prerequisites are required for attendees, although professional experience in any discipline would be beneficial.
Target Audience
This course is typically suited for professionals with a few years of experience; however, the content is universally applicable and can be utilized across most disciplines. It is particularly valuable for specialists who need to explain complex or uncommon concepts to non-expert audiences.
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