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Build team trust and collaboration
Miscommunication in teams is the hidden cost. Great leadership is about communication.
Communicate to Connect is an interactive, experiential workshop that prioritises creativity, productivity, and well-being by focusing on communication and relationship - the foundations of great leadership.
Communicate to Connect is for leaders in small and medium-sized businesses.
This is an in-house, interactive, interpersonal skills workshop for leaders that enhances how their people work with others by developing leaders' ability to be present and establish trust and rapport.
Aims
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To enable leaders to communicate with anyone and establish a productive, rewarding relationship.
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For participants to be present with people, establish trust and rapport, and apply these skills in their industry, with their teams, and clients/customers.
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For participants to lead and establish psychological safety in their organisations and teams.
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To be able to give and receive feedback that promotes relationship and productivity.
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To lead as effectively virtually and remotely as when walking the floors, able to manage gaps in communication arising from reliance on technology.
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To be able to manage upwards, and balance and correlate organisational strategy and team effectiveness, and be able to deliver constructive feedback.
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To handle conflict and tricky conversations calmly.
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To learn and practice self-awarenes, able to manage your mind’s thinking in one-on-one interactions, and in meetings with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
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To practice self-awareness for interviews, appraisals, one-on-ones, presentations, virtual meetings, leadership meetings, sales meetings, strategy meetings, and meetings with family and friends (and even in romantic meetings).
Outcomes
This workshop teaches you to:
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Create trust and rapport immediately when meeting for the first time
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Be completely present in key meetings and conversations
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Listen empathetically and discern and respond to clients’, colleagues’, and stakeholders' immediate, and underlying concerns
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Increase your ability to have people listen to you (and not just hear you)
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Set the tone of your meetings and guide what is said
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Increase your confidence when meeting clients, colleagues, and stakeholders, particularly after COVID and long periods of working from home
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Create collaboration and sales opportunities from informal conversations and team meetings
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Manage and benefit from potentially difficult conversations
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Manage and benefit from networking conversations
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Lead, manage, and participate in your team including remotely.
Will it benefit you?
This workshop is for leaders who:
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Lead their firm or organisation.
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Lead or manage a team, directly or and/or remotely.
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Face and manage clients, customers, and stakeholders.
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Meet prospective clients and seek collaborative projects with industry contacts.
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Oversee projects.
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Communicate Human Resource policy, investment analysis, or regulation.
Participants will leave the workshop more confident and with a communication framework to build trust rapidly and create mutually productive relationships that last.
Your facilitator
Christopher Jones-Warner, Chartered FCSI, has taught and coached communication, relationship, and leadership since 2007.
Serving originally as an Army Officer, he has a background in private client wealth management and was the founding chairman of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment’s Wealth Management Forum.
He runs programmes in communication, leadership, and Self-Mastery, and is a Certified Level 1 Ananda Meditation Teacher with Ananda.org
Pricing Information
This workshop is a one day, in-person, in-house, interactive, experiential communication and leadership workout:
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In-person, on-site, £1,800 per delivery, from 4 to 75 participants
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6 hours CISI CPD available.
Email Christopher, as below, to discuss what you are dealing with or to book a workshop.
“I have heard nothing but excellent feedback from the communication course you kindly ran for us on Friday. I know that many of the attendees needed help, and they really appreciated your confidence building measures. You clearly were effective because they have returned, buzzing and ready to try it for real. That’s a great result.”
