I was talking with a client recently who asked me about the internal comms masterclass where we first met. Ark Group had asked me to run a masterclass that had got some great feedback and he wanted to know when he could send some of his team on a similar one.
We're talking about running a tailored version of the original one in-house for him, but I've decided that we'll run a public masterclass ourselves as an experiment as Ark have pulled out of the communications arena altogether.
As it's the first one and we want to keep it tailored to participants' needs, we're going to limit attendance to 10 people in the first place. I'll be leading it, but we'll be having some guest speakers along the way.
Date: Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Venue: Central London
Time: 9.30-16.00
Cost: £310
Early bird registration (before 8th March): £250
You can book online at Eventbrite: More for less - a one-day masterclass in internal communications
And we can adapt and offer it for in-house communications training - just ask.
The details:
In the current climate, individuals and organizations are under increasing stress. As a communicator, you are being asked to deliver more results in less predictable environments with fewer resources. Whether an experienced professional or a recent recruit, this masterclass will equip you with ideas, practical techniques and clear next steps.
It is perfectly possible to deliver "more for less" - what it requires is a new set of persepectives and tools to address employee engagement and internal communications.
This one-day masterclass will help you
Previous comments about Narrate masterclasses:
• Totally innovative! I’ve never done anything like this and enjoyed it. Am bursting with ideas for how I can apply this in my workplace – thanks for showing me all these things!
• A total life-changer!
• Excellent away-day. Practical and theoretical. Grounded in lots of examples and stories. Liked that it was a small group as lots of opportunities to share and network.
• A very useful course and I have learnt a lot of things that I can take back to the office re. communications.
• A very good course that I will recommend to colleagues.
An interactive day, focused and adapted to meet participants’ specific situations and challenges, it includes practical tools, principles, guest speakers and examples of communications from different sectors – to ensure that as a participant, you come away with pragmatic, useful material to put into action the minute you get back to your desk.
Masterclass leader:
Tony Quinlan, Principal Consultant and Chief Storyteller, Narrate
Tony is a business alchemist who founded Narrate in 2000 to create more effective, healthier organizational cultures and communications. He’s passionate about breaking out of rigid, purely rational communications to create real cultural and behavioral change. A member of the Cognitive Edge network, he is always exploring new ideas and practices, looking at current business practices from a different perspective. If you want 12-step models and the “same old, same old”, then you’ve got the wrong man.
A frequent keynote speaker and conference chair, Tony writes on communications, branding and culture for international publications and blogs at www.thenarrateblog.com. Today, he is a writer, keynote speaker, communications coach, masterclass presenter and international consultant. But he has also been a radio presenter, radar designer, TV tuner, dishwasher, lift attendant, software programmer and presented live public roadshows to 8,000 people at a time. Needless to say, he has stories about all of them.
Overall agenda:
9:30 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Introductions and objectives
10:15 Thinking about internal communications
10.45 The role of the internal communicator
11:20 Morning Coffee Break
11:50 Communications in challenging times
12:30 Innovative internal communications
13:10 Lunch
14:10 Dealing with major comms projects
14:50 Understanding the internal audience
15:30 Discussions and Next Steps
16:00 Close of Masterclass