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Day 1

INTRODUCTION

  • Background context
  • Role definition
  • Soft skills overview
  • Perception, numeracy gaps, and human nature
  • Money, metrics, and market dynamics

1. COMMUNICATION – PARADOX, PURPOSE, AND INTENTION

  • The purpose and intention of communication
    • To educate
    • To inform
    • To persuade
  • Key conclusions

2. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

  • Identifying who you are addressing
  • Worldviews, perspectives, and cognitive schemas
  • Managing jargon in mixed audiences
  • Cultural and national context
  • Level of detail and abstraction

3. COMMUNICATION METHODS AND TOOLS

  • Essential tools
  • Text and summaries for screen-based communication
  • The rule of three
  • Using examples and analogies

4. STORYTELLING

  • The ubiquity, cycles, and biological wiring of stories
  • Applying stories in the workplace
  • Techniques for effective storytelling
  • Non-verbal communication
  • The lasting impact and power of narratives

Day 2

5. PRESENTING DATA AND INFORMATION

  • Distinguishing data from information
  • Determining the appropriate level of detail
  • Establishing trusted sources
  • Visualizing data and information

6. INTERPRETATION OF DATA

  • Understanding confirmation bias
  • Clarifying communication intent
  • Communicating status effectively

7. FEEDBACK

  • Feedback models
    • Situation, Behaviour, and Impact (SBI) model
    • Sandwich feedback model
    • Pendleton feedback model
    • Situation, Task, Action, and Result (STAR) model
    • SAID feedback model
  • Strategies for receiving good feedback
  • Active listening techniques
  • Strategies for giving good feedback
  • Providing constructive feedback
  • Key conclusions

Day 3

8. COLLABORATION

  • The value of collaboration
  • Defining collaboration
  • Fostering a collaborative culture
  • Key conclusions

9. COLLABORATION TOOLS

  • Common collaboration platforms and suites
    • MS SharePoint
    • Google Workspace
    • Atlassian
    • Kahootz
    • HighQ
  • Guidelines for selecting the right collaboration 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

  • Disklosure and intent
  • Building your personal brand
    • Step 1: Define your objectives
    • Step 2: Align goals
    • Step 3: Identify your audience and purpose
    • Step 4: Engage effectively
  • Key brand characteristics

13. POSITIVE ATTITUDE

  • The history of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
  • The role of 'Can-do' spirit and faith
  • Developing and maintaining a PMA
  • Cultivating distilled positivity
  • Conclusion

14. NETWORKING

15. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Requirements

Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no strict prerequisites for enrollment, though prior professional experience in any field is beneficial.

Attendees

This course is typically suited for professionals with several years of experience. However, the content is broadly applicable and can benefit individuals from most disciplines. It is particularly valuable for specialists who frequently need to explain complex or niche concepts to non-technical audiences.

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