Earlier this year I was contracted by a large Government Organisation to design and deliver 8 one day training courses aimed at improving communication skills with an introduction to working with story and storytelling.
The day was designed to be instructive, entertaining and participative. I included the importance of personal stories, the community/organisation story and how to remember and inspire others with a story.
Almost 120 members of staff attended, across four locations throughout the country.
This course is now available, at a fixed price, with a discount for multiple orders, if you or your organization would like me to run something similar for you.
The content can easily be tweaked to cover your interests or issues.
I would recommend no more than 15 per session.
Book now and we can agree a suitable date later. Contact me to discuss
If you are wondering how useful the training was, I will let you make your own interpretation of some of the feedback I received:
Feedback on the training
Leadership group should do this training
Good pace, lots of content, great stories and enthusiasm
Storytelling training told through stories. What could be better?
Should be mandatory – getting staff thinking much more about our stories and comms to deliver
A really useful and positive day
Ron’s engagement and enthusiasm – great stories
No Power Point made it more engaging and personal
Provoking and valuable
Informative – got me thinking about how I present things
Good mixture of conversation, examples and anecdotes
Helpful techniques – I am usually reliant on notes for presentation, this has prompted me to do things without notes!
Great session and great tips for how storytelling can benefit us
I liked the collaborative nature of the exercises
I was sceptical initially thinking that I would not get much from this – however pleasantly surprised
Personal, anecdotal, engaging
Loved the format, so engaging & no Power Point!
Very engaging
Excellent course of value to anyone
I had a really interesting and compelling day, the pace and content was great
So useful, will use these new skills
So good and entertaining use of the time
Very engaging – who needs PowerPoint!
Great that NE is doing this training – more please
Extremely valuable, learnt by demonstration than doing
How would this training help you carry out your work ?
Some useful techniques to apply to talks and presentations
As Comms lead for the team this will help me with presentations, articles and tweets
It will influence the way in which I work on staff and stakeholder engagement particularly with different audiences
Better presentations and engaging others in work areas
Techniques will give good structure and pointers to presenting and engaging with others
Prep before meetings and public facing events
More confidence to step away from Power Point
Directly relevant to making business case for key project and subsequently in ‘selling it’ to local communities
Communication details on projects, engaging clearly with brevity and impact with the tools to help to do this
Help me persuade colleagues when talking out new processes or information about new products
Help counteract cynicism and apathy, more confidence to deliver messages and hopefully I will be more inspiring
Help write case studies and apply for funding – better equipped to deal with media attention
It will help me form my narrative and engage with different audiences
I will try to incorporate some of the frameworks into written communications as well as presentations
I will hopefully use it in delivering training internally & externally in regards with Bat Conservation
Help counteract cynicism and apathy, more confidence to deliver messages and hopefully I will be more inspiring
Help write case studies and apply for funding – better equipped to deal with media attention
I will try to incorporate some of the frameworks into written communications as well as presentations
Hopefully will improve my persuasiveness
Help with presentations, collecting stories, engaging with public
Help me engage more with the public as part of my current project
Messaging, thinking through ideas, inspiring others
Very thought provoking, think it could help for main work as well as performance conversations and interviewing
Hopefully I will be able to do more interesting and engaging presentations and writing and get more people interested in helping wildlife
With plenty of engagement opportunities on the horizon (internal & external) there will be chances to use some of the message skills
Use some techniques at team meetings next week
Better able to develop partnerships and manage effective communications
Doing internal comms, complaints, sharing what I do informally with others
Stop the waffle, fewer facts, engaging in a way people will remember
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