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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 addressing?
  • World views, lenses, and schemas
  • Jargon and mixed audiences
  • Location and national context
  • 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 being hardwired for children
  • Utilizing 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 – understanding the difference
  • Detail – determining the appropriate level
  • 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 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 achieve?
    • Step 2: Goal alignment
    • Step 3: Who are you addressing – and why?
    • Step 4: Engage
  • Brand characteristics

13.        POSITIVE ATTITUDE

  • The history of PMA
  • ‘Can-do’ attitude and faith
  • Developing and maintaining a PMA
  • Distilled positivity
  • Conclusion

14.        NETWORKING

15.        SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Requirements

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills
There are no specific prerequisites for attendance. However, some prior professional experience in any discipline would be advantageous.

Target Audience

This course is typically suitable for professionals with a few years of experience, though the content is universally applicable across most disciplines. It is particularly beneficial for specialists who need to explain complex or uncommon concepts to non-specialist audiences.

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