DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Do you have a fear of public speaking? Do you need to improve your presentation skills? Go Present is the programme for you. This practical two day workshop will give you key tools for not only improving your presentation skills but also enhancing your communication skills. The workshop is designed to give participants the opportunity to practice planning and delivery techniques so that they can deliver polished, compelling presentations.
Regardless of the topic or audience, this workshop will offer practical ideas to enhance participants’ communication styles so that they can meet even the most challenging presentation goals while being true to who they are.
This workshop is designed to be very participative and practical. Participants come to the workshop prepared to make a five minute presentation. Another five minute presentation is also done at the end of the workshop to assess participants’ improvements. The facilitators and fellow participants provide each presenter with structured feedback.
Programme Content: (knowledge and skills that participants will acquire)
- Basic principles on how to deliver powerful presentations
- Characteristics of a good presenter
- Eight steps to preparing a powerful presentation
- Presentation vs. Speech
- Overcoming presentation anxiety
- Dealing with logistics (facility, equipment, etc)
- Using appropriate visual aids
- Your voice, verbal messages and visual images
- Your most powerful visual aid – YOU
- Handling ‘problem’ personalities
- Delivery and assessment of participants’ presentations
Do you have a fear of public speaking? Do you need to improve your presentation skills? Go Present is the programme for you. This practical two day workshop will give you key tools for not only improving your presentation skills but also enhancing your communication skills. The workshop is designed to give participants the opportunity to practice planning and delivery techniques so that they can deliver polished, compelling presentations.
Regardless of the topic or audience, this workshop will offer practical ideas to enhance participants’ communication styles so that they can meet even the most challenging presentation goals while being true to who they are.
This workshop is designed to be very participative and practical. Participants come to the workshop prepared to make a five minute presentation. Another five minute presentation is also done at the end of the workshop to assess participants’ improvements. The facilitators and fellow participants provide each presenter with structured feedback.
Programme Content: (knowledge and skills that participants will acquire)
- Basic principles on how to deliver powerful presentations
- Characteristics of a good presenter
- Eight steps to preparing a powerful presentation
- Presentation vs. Speech
- Overcoming presentation anxiety
- Dealing with logistics (facility, equipment, etc)
- Using appropriate visual aids
- Your voice, verbal messages and visual images
- Your most powerful visual aid – YOU
- Handling ‘problem’ personalities
- Delivery and assessment of participants’ presentations
Caribbean Catalyst Inc. (CCI) has partnered with John Spence – author of Awesomely Simple – to present an in-house workshop for its clients.
We work with clients to promote real time implementation by engaging groups – managers, departments – or in the case of small organisations the entire staff complement.
A typical approach would be as follows:
- CCI meet with appropriate team to discuss objectives, process etc. and fine tune these.
- CCI develop a draft project plan and share same with all participants getting one or two volunteers (per session) to lead the session for each of the six areas to be explored in detail.
- CCI will do a ‘Going from Good to Great’ electronic survey to start the project with current feedback from the team.
- CCI will work with the volunteers as they prepare for leading ‘their’ area.
- Each team member is given a copy of the book, Awesomely Simple, at least two weeks ahead of the first session. Copies are available at Caribbean Catalyst Inc. at Bds $75 per copy (VAT inclusive).
- Dates and times are set for the six sessions, working to ensure 100% participation at each as far as is humanly possible. Each session will be 2 – 2 ½ hours and should ideally each be no more than ten days apart.
- Each team member comes to the sessions having read the relevant chapter(s) and prepared to participate openly, constructively and honestly.
- Each session will share the relevant feedback from the survey, meaningfully discuss the behaviours etc. shared in the book, agree on just a few actions to be taken based on the company’s/department’s reality etc. At the end of the entire initiative these will be reiterated and brought into sharp focus as all will be held collectively accountable for the planned improvements etc.
What makes Awesomely Simple different from other leadership workshops?
It is done in house and therefore gives participants the privacy of being with colleagues only, encouraging identification of barriers to success and practical solutions.
Selected participants work with CCI to prepare to facilitate the six workshop sessions. This ensures that the “ownership baton” is effectively passed on to fuel practical implementation at every level.
The entire group has a genuine shared vision as they commit to concrete changes to achieve the vision.
What is the measurable impact if the implementation becomes a genuine focus of the organisation/department?
- Purposeful building of individual and collective expertise for the future.
- Achievement of organizational/department objectives.
- Purposefully tapping into the collective wisdom for continuous improvement- more effective sharing and learning.
- Improved performance as mediocrity is not tolerated.
- All working smarter rather than harder to enhance profitability.
A respectful but enjoyable culture where talent collaborates and delivers excellence.
Awesomely Simple Leadership Workshop
Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
Caribbean Catalyst Inc. (CCI) has partnered with John Spence – author of Awesomely Simple – to present an in-house workshop for its clients.
We work with clients to promote real time implementation by engaging groups – managers, departments – or in the case of small organisations the entire staff complement.
What makes Awesomely Simple different from other leadership workshops?
It is done in house and therefore gives participants the privacy of being with colleagues only, encouraging identification of barriers to success and practical solutions. Selected participants work with CCI to prepare to facilitate the six workshop sessions. This ensures that the “ownership baton” is effectively passed on to fuel practical implementation at every level.
The entire group has a genuine shared vision as they commit to concrete changes to achieve the vision.
What is the measurable impact if the implementation becomes a genuine focus of the organisation/department?
- Purposeful building of individual and collective expertise for the future.
- Achievement of organizational/department objectives.
- Purposefully tapping into the collective wisdom for continuous improvement- more effective sharing and learning.
- Improved performance as mediocrity is not tolerated.
- All working smarter rather than harder to enhance profitability.
- A respectful but enjoyable culture where talent collaborates and delivers excellence.
This is a very practical in-house workshop for Managers and Supervisors
Coaching has an enormously important role in the building and sustaining of great organisations and extraordinary workplaces. People who want to accomplish great things often get stuck along the way. Coaching helps people get un-stuck. An example of this is that while many leaders, executives, and managers in organisations seem to "know" intuitively what they need to do to move forward, few of them actually follow through because they are stuck in some way. Coaching helps people focus on the things that are contributing to their being stuck, and then move beyond them.
To paraphrase Albert Einstein, it takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem. Simply, "coaching" is the process of helping people develop their capacity to think about things (such as problems, people, relationships, customers, products, services, the future) in new and creative ways so that they can accomplish what they really want to accomplish.
The Programme: (what participants will receive)
- Pre-work to focus them on real life coaching opportunities with their team.
- A practical one day experience which includes use of powerful video clips, role play and group discussions.
- Practical hand-outs to start their ‘Coaching Kit’.
- Approaches to effective coaching both informal and formal.
- A peer support group for the future.
Programme Value: (what participants return to work with)
- A better understanding of their role as coach.
- A renewed commitment to being a more effective coach.
- A realistic assessment of their current coaching knowledge, skills and practice.
- Clarity on the differences of coaching informally and formally and current opportunities to apply the skills learnt.
- A documented plan of action for specific coaching opportunities to be exploited.
Programme Content: (knowledge and skills that participants will acquire)
- Why develop a coaching culture?
- Self Assessment of Coaching Knowledge, Skills and Practice
- What Coaching is NOT and what it IS.
- Informal Coaching – When to Use it
- Formal Coaching
- Qualities of a Successful Manager / Supervisor Coach
- Core Elements of Coaching
- Practical Coaching Skills
- Documenting next steps collectively and individually
Employee Empowerment training is a powerful team builder and the five module series is most effective if all or most of the teams participate.
The focus is on helping all team members to function as empowered employees who take a healthy interest in their work, their colleagues and themselves leading to genuine ease of rapport and the personal confidence to become a more valuable team member.
Case studies, role play, teamwork, video clips and group reporting are all methods which will be used to reinforce the concepts and help participants develop tangible ways to embrace change.
The workshop is patterned off of “The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace” and helps you understand how you can demonstrate personal leadership in the workplace.
The objectives of the workshop are to help each participant better understand:
- The importance of personal accountability to you and to the organisation.
- That circumstances are what they are but you choose how you respond to them.
- That if you want to succeed, “buy-in” is not optional.
- The importance of being change ready and not change resistant.
- That difficult situations are opportunities for individual growth and success.
Participants will leave with practical ways to demonstrate personal leadership and own their own progress and development.