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This highly interactive online training focusses on deepening knowledge, skills and insight around change communication - helping participants attain a more profound understanding and advanced skill-set for effective practice.

The course will also help attendees use coaching principles to influence senior leaders and specific negotiation skills to support and drive change.
 

• The Holistic Formula®, the new and unique approach for a more strategic and impactful change communications
   

• How to manage and coach up with confidence and across hierarchies to support senior managers in leading the change
   

• Psychological methodologies and frameworks, such as Nudge Theory and Five Cognitive Biases, to shift mindsets and encourage new behaviour
   

• The opportunity for each delegate to test-drive the holistic approach (SQ map) by applying it to a change initiative and potential challenge in their own organisation.​

This course will help internal comms professionals learn how to become effective business partners and trusted advisors to the senior leaders they support in their business.
 

Delivered over two live sessions, the course will include roleplays, group discussions and a range of other interactive elements, allowing delegates to support and learn from one another between workshops.

By the end of the course, delegates will: 
 

• Understand the value they generate across the organisation when applying great communication business partnering (understanding our audiences)

• Have tools and a structure to apply to a business partnering approach

• Understand how to manage the focus and expectation of internal and external clients (using their soft skills, behaviours and EI)

• Feel more confident about partnering with their stakeholders in the business (Personal validation: I am following proven insight, best practice...and can be proud of my skills)

This one-day virtual learning programme will explore equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in an ever-changing world of work and will delve into the role of communication and engagement professionals in fostering inclusive and innovative workplace cultures. 
 

During the course you will look at the business case for EDI - including around innovation and growth - and receive expert guidance on how to communicate this internally. 
 

You will also explore inclusive actions for internal communicators - including how to build empathy around EDI amongst employees and using inclusive language to create a culture of respect. 
 

The course will provide practical tools and techniques to help you drive and support the EDI agenda in your organisation, equipping you with a meaningful action plan you can implement straight away.

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This course is designed to help attendees make the most of their internal communication channels - enabling the delivery of meaningful and compelling communication, the cultivation of positive employee experiences, and facilitating effective multi-directional communication.
 

The programme is split over two half-day sessions with a practical task to complete in between to support the application of learning and offer the opportunity for feedback. 

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By the end of the course, delegates will: 
 

• feel more confident in selecting, integrating and using the most appropriate channels
   

• use your channels for effective multi-directional communication 
   

• understand the difference and specific value of rich as well as lean media
   

• be better equipped using different channels for compelling communication and stimulating employee experiences 
   

• understand how to measure the success of channels and tell your channel story. 

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This course will explore how internal communicators can effectively communicate with their harder-to-reach colleagues. 

This half-day training will provide expert guidance and proven strategies for understanding and communicating with your hard-to-reach colleagues, including building insights, using data, channel selection and use and techniques for driving engagement. 

The session will also ensure you are able to measure and evaluate the success of your communications, using these insights to progress and demonstrate impact. 

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Learning objectives:

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• To know how to build a profile for your specific hard to reach employee group/s
   

• To feel inspired by new ideas and ways of communicating with your hard-to-reach colleagues
   

• To understand the best channels and conditions to communicate with hard-to-reach colleagues
   

• To understand how to measure your ability to communicate with hard-to-reach colleagues 

This highly interactive training course explores both quantitative and qualitative research methods, looking at what you need to measure and what methods to use.
 

The course will provide guidance on best practice surveys and polls and research techniques to support your measurement, and how to create compelling dashboards to share outcomes and insights with stakeholders. It aims to build your confidence using data, particularly when giving strategic advice and influencing stakeholders.

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By the end of the course, delegates will:
 

• understand quantitative research methods and situations they are best suited to
   

• understand the basics of how to run good surveys and polls
   

• feel inspired to do more research to support their measurement
   

• feel confident to use data in giving strategic advice and shaping strategy
   

• feel inspired to create compelling dashboards that showcase their work and their data skills.

This course has been designed with anyone in mind who has responsibility for managing or supporting internal communication and employee engagement around a change programme - no matter if they are facing a team, departmental or organisational change initiative.
 

Learning objectives: 
 

By the end of the course, delegates will: 
 

• Have valuable new insight into the psychology of communications and the dynamics of engaging with different audiences and stakeholders in times of change
   

• Understand how to start and develop a change communications plan
   

• Be able to identify the most relevant communications channels to engage with and get buy-in from stakeholders
   

• Know how to measure and evaluate the change communications initiative

This highly interactive training focusses on deepening knowledge, skills and insight around change communication - helping participants attain a more profound understanding and advanced skill-set for effective practice.  

The course will also help attendees take a further step in their own development, including how to use coaching principles to influence senior leaders and specific negotiation skills to support and drive change. 

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By the end of the course, delegates will: 

• Be able to apply the unique Holistic Formula® with its diverse types of intelligence to plan, prepare and implement change communications more strategically

• Have valuable new insight into coaching principles that help them to call truth to power and influence senior leaders to become true advocates of change

• Be better equipped to work with change management teams and support people/direct managers in implementing change

• Be able to recognise and pro-actively influence the three common change-avers and resisting mindsets

• Understand how to support and drive change by using specific negotiation skills.

This highly interactive training course explores both quantitative and qualitative research methods, looking at what you need to measure and what methods to use.
 

The course will provide guidance on best practice surveys and polls and research techniques to support your measurement, and how to create compelling dashboards to share outcomes and insights with stakeholders. It aims to build your confidence using data, particularly when giving strategic advice and influencing stakeholders.

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By the end of the course, delegates will:
 

• understand quantitative research methods and situations they are best suited to
   

• understand the basics of how to run good surveys and polls
   

• feel inspired to do more research to support their measurement
   

• feel confident to use data in giving strategic advice and shaping strategy
   

• feel inspired to create compelling dashboards that showcase their work and their data skills.

Designed for senior internal communicators, this programme will help you develop an approach to AI adoption that aligns with your organisation's values and goals, is led by your needs and challenges, and ensures appropriate and ethical use of AI. 
 

• Take informed decisions about when, and when not, to use AI tools in internal communications.
   

• Lead the communication for AI transformation within your organisation, ensuring employees understand the value, limitations and ethical considerations, while listening to concerns and insights, leading for change with an open and inclusive dialogue.
   

• Foster a culture of safe experimentation, where their teams use AI tools creatively and responsibly, with a strong emphasis on values-led, human-centred communication.
   

• Develop AI policies and safeguards to protect your organisation, employees, and stakeholders from inappropriate use of AI technologies.

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This virtual course will explore how people interact, what makes you a trusted communicator, and how psychology, emotional intelligence, neuro- and cognitive diversity allow you to build and maintain trust.

By the end of the course, delegates will: 
 

• Know how to enhance their own gravitas
   

• Have valuable new insight into the psychology of communications and taking on different perspectives
   

• Recognise and flex their personal communications style to influence and motivate others
   

• Understand how to apply interpersonal and active listening skills to build rapport
   

• Be able to apply SQ – Situational Intelligence to prepare more effectively and successfully navigate hierarchical, cultural and psychological barriers
   

• Develop negotiating skills to better handle conflict and manage challenging conversations