Free Learning Events - Now Online
We have moved our events online. Replacing live theatre with interactive video, these facilitated workshops will use a metaphoric project story to provoke and carry the learning. Around the story, there will be learning content and audience interaction: In breakouts and using polls, the audience can interrogate the characters, experiment with their behaviour, and in the end take control of the story. Our aim is to bring enjoyment and impact, instead of Zoom fatigue, to the online world.
OPAQUE: Crossing the Siloes... The Difficult Stakeholder Conversations of Leadership
Thursday 20th May 2021 (Online)
Process is necessary, technology ever-present, and yet it remains people and relationships that get our projects delivered. At the heart of challenging projects lie collaboration and conflict. Much depends upon power and how it used, and shared.
The crux of the challenge is how stakeholder conversations can build engagement, ownership, and so transform delivery performance. How courage builds respect and vulnerability opens up trust, in the moment of a conversation. Applying emotional Intelligence to the real conversations of projects, and specifically when landing projects with senior stakeholders in ‘the business’.
At this experiential learning event, we will take on this challenge, together with the audience, using an interactive story. The audience will be involved throughout, driving the discussion, making choices and determining how the story will end.
Getting There: Helping Each Other's Wellbeing, and Having 'That' Conversation
Tuesday 29th June 2021 (Online)
How do we keep our mental health campaign going, and take it further; making a real difference on the front line, and so build a healthier culture?
The challenge is perhaps biggest at the very point of need, where conversations are needed to follow a path to better health. Whether we are managers, first aiders or colleagues, how can we spot the signs? How can we overcome the fear to ask? How can our colleagues feel safe to speak-up? And then how do we resist our temptations to solve what is theirs, finding the skills and composure just to hold the space for them, in that most vulnerable conversation of all?
At this experiential learning event, we will address these questions together, using an interactive story. The audience will be involved throughout, driving the discussion, making choices and determining how the story will end.
OPAQUE: Resistance is good… and we all do it.
Tuesday 13th July 2021 (Online)
Nowhere in projects are people more central than in Change. However compelling our vision or thorough our communication plan, uncertain success always hinges on those good people on the receiving end who, ultimately, will be needed make it all happen.
Our challenge is to get underneath the nature of resistance, identifying it and working with it, by engaging at the emotional level. Change is unlocked, by applying emotional intelligence to the real conversations of projects, and specifically when working with apparently ‘resisting’ team members.
At this experiential learning event, we will take on this challenge, together with the audience, using an interactive story. The audience will be involved throughout, driving the discussion, making choices and determining how the story will end.
Getting There: Helping Each Other's Wellbeing, and Having 'That' Conversation
Thursday 19th August 2021 (Online)
How do we keep our mental health campaign going, and take it further; making a real difference on the front line, and so build a healthier culture?
The challenge is perhaps biggest at the very point of need, where conversations are needed to follow a path to better health. Whether we are managers, first aiders or colleagues, how can we spot the signs? How can we overcome the fear to ask? How can our colleagues feel safe to speak-up? And then how do we resist our temptations to solve what is theirs, finding the skills and composure just to hold the space for them, in that most vulnerable conversation of all?
At this experiential learning event, we will address these questions together, using an interactive story. The audience will be involved throughout, driving the discussion, making choices and determining how the story will end.
We don't currently have any upcoming face to face events in the diary. Unfortunately, this will continue to be the case until we receive further guidance following the COVID 19 outbreak and feel it is safe to do so. We wish everyone good health in these uncertain times.
