Schedule of Courses
What's coming up
Anecdote offers short courses and workshops thoughout the year. We can also run these courses for your organisation in-house. Here is the workshop schedule for the year.
Narrative Techniques for Business
Surveys and metrics can uncover trouble in an organisation, but they usually don't help you identify the reasons for dysfunctions, let alone generate the resolve to springboard people into action. Instead, learn to use stories as listening posts and tap into the emotion to spark action. From time immemorial, stories have contained collective lessons in condensed form. When gathered and examined, stories that are told in your organisation reveal important themes and patterns that in turn indicate effective solutions. This one-day workshop, led by Australia's leading experts in story listening, teaches you to gather and make sense of stories so as to see revealing patterns and use them to gain traction on solving messy organisational problems or reaching complex goals. After a full day of instruction, practice and feedback, you will have the confidence and knowledge to apply these powerful techniques within your organisation. |
Building a Collaborative WorkplaceThis highly interactive full-day workshop is designed to help participants to create a collaboration capability in their organisations, be they public sector, private enterprise or not-for-profit. The trouble most managers face is that collaboration is a spontaneous thing that thrives in some environments and doesn’t in others; it emerges, yet it is rarely taught. This workshop is designed to meet this current need of business managers and leaders to systematically build a collaboration capability. Participants will understand what they need to do and ask their leaders to do in order to help people connect together and work better in a collaborative manner. More organisations are recognising the need to build a culture that enables people to connect across the traditional organisational silos. There is a growing understanding that doing business is a social process and that organisations wishing to enhance their capability, engage their workforce and foster innovation must create conditions for effective collaboration. |
Storytelling for Business LeadersWe all need better ways to persuade, share what we know and help those around us make sense of the complex world we live in. Developing our innate storytelling skills helps build confidence, convey ideas clearly and effectively, and probably most importantly, present to our colleagues our humanity. This workshop is for anyone wanting to improve their ability to find and tell their own stories within a business context. We all want to convey our ideas with impact, yet eyes instantly glaze the moment you beam your PowerPoint presentation laden with slide after slide of dot points. We know informally that stories are engaging; we tell them at dinner parties and people listen and they ‘get it.’ Yet few leaders systematically harness storytelling to communicate ideas, convey the organisation’s valuesor inspire and motivate people.
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