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Day 1

INTRODUCTION

  • Background context
  • Role definition
  • The importance of soft skills
  • Perception, numerical literacy, and human behavior
  • Money, metrics, and market dynamics

1. COMMUNICATION – PARADOX, PURPOSE, AND INTENTION

  • Understanding the purpose and intention of communication
    • Education
    • Information sharing
    • Persuasion
  • Key takeaways

2. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

  • Identifying your audience
  • Worldviews, perspectives, and mental schemas
  • Managing jargon and mixed groups
  • Cultural and national context
  • Level of abstraction and detail

3. COMMUNICATION METHODS AND TOOLS

  • Essential tools
  • Screen-based text and summaries
  • The rule of three
  • Using examples and analogies

4. STORYTELLING

  • The ubiquity, cycles, and inherent appeal of stories
  • Applying storytelling in the workplace
  • Techniques for effective storytelling
  • Non-verbal communication cues
  • The enduring power of narratives

Day 2

5. PRESENTING DATA AND INFORMATION

  • Distinguishing between data and information
  • Determining the appropriate level of detail
  • Utilizing trusted sources
  • Data and information visualization techniques

6. INTERPRETATION OF DATA

  • Understanding confirmation bias
  • Aligning communication intent
  • Managing communication status

7. FEEDBACK

  • Feedback frameworks
    • 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 constructive feedback
  • The importance of active listening
  • Techniques for delivering effective feedback
  • Nurturing a culture of constructive feedback
  • Key takeaways

Day 3

8. COLLABORATION

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

9. COLLABORATION TOOLS

  • Overview of common collaboration platforms
    • MS SharePoint
    • Google Workspace
    • Atlassian
    • Kahootz
    • HighQ
  • Criteria for selecting the right collaboration tool

10. ASSESSING YOUR COLLABORATION SKILLS

  • The Johari Window model
  • Clarity and brevity
  • The role of assertiveness
  • Basic assertions
  • Empathic assertions
  • Consequence-based assertions
  • The discrepancy technique
  • The repetition technique
  • The 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: Defining your objectives
    • Step 2: Aligning goals
    • Step 3: Identifying your audience and purpose
    • Step 4: Engagement strategies
  • Characteristics of a strong brand

13. POSITIVE ATTITUDE

  • The history of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)
  • Cultivating a 'Can-do' mindset and faith
  • Developing and sustaining PMA
  • The essence of distilled positivity
  • Conclusion

14. NETWORKING

15. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Requirements

Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no strict prerequisites for participation, though professional experience in any discipline is advantageous.

Target Audience

The course is ideal for professionals with several years of experience; however, the content is universally applicable and beneficial across most disciplines. It is particularly valuable for specialists who frequently need to explain complex or uncommon concepts to non-specialist audiences.

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