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Courses that make a difference
Time spent in training and development is too valuable to waste. You should be getting great design, up-to-the-minute content, and methods that suit all your learners. Our courses are participative, practical and life-changing.
Designing and facilitating events
Great meetings, workshops or conferences rarely happen by accident. We’ll help you design a session that will deliver the outcomes you want. And if you need a credible, witty and experienced host, we can provide that too.
Keynotes and workshops
If you want your conference or meeting to get participants excited and engaged, allow us to present. Your audience will learn inspiring and practical take-aways to build on their strengths as leaders and valuable team-players.
Online Courses:
The Inspirational Facilitator shows you how to design and host meetings, workshops and conferences that rock – and keep your audience coming back for more. This practical programme will offer you all the tips and techniques you need to be a more confident and creative facilitator, both face-to-face and online. You’ll master your design and hosting skills, while participating in an exclusive collaborative network. You’ll gain a competitive edge that keeps you in demand for the fulfilling work you want.
Bringing out the best in you and your teams
If you want to:
- Raise the quality and impact of communication skills in your organisation
- Develop leaders who articulate and share a compelling, strategic vision
- Enhance the performance of teams and individuals
- Sustain improvements throughout your organisation
Grow:
- Increase your confidence and creativity
- Expand your business by clearly communicating your vision
- Learn to take risks and how to react to setbacks
- Benefit from our experience in getting results in world-class organisations
- We use flipped learning and applied improvisation in high-value, collaborative projects that will bring out the best in you and your teams
We’ll help you to:
- Increase your confidence and creativity
- Expand your business by clearly communicating your vision
- Learn to take risks and respond resiliently to setbacks
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What are we thinking – blog posts
Why turn-taking is so important online – Virtual Facilitation #9
Turn-taking was and is a prominent part of a meeting, whether off-line or online.
When we used to meet face to face in the same rooms with each other, we all knew whose turn it was. It was always the turn of the next most confident or senior speaker – unless the meeting was facilitated to allow others to step in as part of the process. Establishing a talking order is…
Include quick warmups – Virtual Facilitation #8
Why should you include quick warmups at the start of online calls?
1 They help familiarise everyone with the technology. Then it’s less likely that people will feel excluded or marginalised.
For example, here’s a simple warmup which works well with larger groups…If the technology allows it, invite participants to…
Simple activities for Zoom
You can easily get inventive with simple activities on Zoom. This picture from a London meeting of the Applied Improvisation Network illustrates a quick game, based on ‘Where’s Wally?’ and retitled for our gang as ‘Point to Peter’.
With everyone preferably in Gallery View or equivalent, the facilitator names one person and everyone points to the area of the screen in which that person appears.
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