- Facilitation
- Project Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Training
- Leadership Development
- Collaborative action across organisations, communities
- Communication strategies and resources
- Stakeholder engagement
Get to know us and our approach with a short workshop
Spend two hours to make stuff happen in your organisation
If you would like an introduction to our work, let us come and run a workshop for your team. We promise a high energy, high impact experience.
Conversations for Performance – a short workshop on conducting feedback conversations, how to give (and just as importantly) receive feedback on performance. The Great Australian non-conversation.
Managing your time, managing yourself - a short workshop on time management. Meet Randy Pausch, think about your long term goals, practice Covey’s Quadrant II.
High ropes for the mind – Using improvisation techniques in groups to stimulate engagement and creativity.
Fresh eyes on innovation and creativity – Creative thinking, innovation and problem solving in organisations.
Meetings that work – Tools and processes for effective meetings.
Harnessing difference – navigating differences in thinking and perspective can be challenging; harnessing difference can lift an idea, a team, or a whole business to a new level.
Doing conflict – Building norms for healthy approaches to difference and conflict.
Language: Dead or alive – turn jargon and business babble into language that brings people alive. Make more sense to more people, be direct, see instant results. Creating organisational poetry.
Networking – It’s not just schmoozing, it’s about building momentum.
Communicating your story – narrative, authenticity and visual richness – all part of successful corporate ‘storytelling’ in the 21st century.
Listening and leadership – An introduction to Otto Scharmer’s Theory U.
LONGER WORKSHOPS
We also offer a range of longer workshops and programs such as:
1. Leadership in tough times – we will take you and your colleagues on a leadership journey (6-8 days)
2. Leading groups – basic facilitation skills (3 days)
3. Leading groups – advanced facilitation skills (2 days)
4. Managing Change (2 days)
5. Innovation and creativity (2 days)
More Details on longer workshops below
See examples of the research and analysis projects we have done in a variety of contexts.
LONGER WORKSHOPS – MORE DETAIL
1. Leadership in tough times
This workshop may be three to eight days, depending on the topics selected.
Themes include:
- Generating collaboration – facilitation skills for leadership
- Listening for leadership
- Improvisation – creativity, spontaneity and strategy
- Doing change
- Harnessing difference – conflict and diversity
2. Leading groups – basic facilitation skills
Things every senior manager needs to know
Is your common experience of meetings boredom and time wasting? Do you and your colleagues often seem to work at cross-purposes?
We can help you make your time count: leading dynamic discussions, influencing and inspiring groups, making conflict work for you, getting great results.
Attend our two-day course in Leading Groups. Build your capacity to:
- Run purposeful meetings, clarify expectations, use techniques that fit your purpose
- Find out why facilitation is such a valuable skill?
- Know how to make the fundamental distinction between Content and process – what is the meeting about and how is it being conducted
- Enrich your ability to engage participants
- Make conflict work for you – develop a robust approach to healthy conflict
- Build dialogue between participants – find and expand the common ground
- Engage participants – spirited interaction and robust conversation
3. Leading groups – advanced facilitation skills
This is an opportunity for people with some facilitation experience to hone your skills and build your confidence. The course is designed to improve your ability to get results from your client groups.
The course will cover topics such as:
- Session design and planning – designing for purpose, closing the distance between the client’s expectations and the reality of the group, using techniques that fit your higher purpose
- Enriching your experiential techniques – improvisation, kinaesthetic activity, storylines
- Dealing with difficult people – power in groups
- Know what to do when the meeting goes ‘pear-shaped’
- Asking good questions – complex, provocative, high quality prompts
- Proactive engagement with your client and participants – testing assumptions, fine tuning the agenda
- Decision making tools
4. Managing change
This workshop is a strong and straightforward introduction to managing change. It will address such topics as:
- Why do most of us hate change
- Failure is common – how do we avoid it
- Doing the analysis – driving forces and reluctant stakeholders
- Skills for managing change – communication, participation
- The steps to successful change
- Evaluating success
