WORKSHOPS THAT
ACTUALLY WORK

 
 

Our workshops — aka, our at-the-ready Jam Sessions — are designed to help you kick-start the communications transformation that your company needs and that you’ve been waiting for.

You’re a pro at communications.
Now it’s time to be a communications pro.

You’ve spent your whole career honing your writing, creative, and project management skills. But as your career progresses, your success is less about doing comms and more about leading them.

We’ll help you bridge that gap. Bring us on board through one of our highly interactive Jam Sessions designed to jump-start change and revolutionize the way you lead your team, your leaders, and your company.

JAM SESSION 1

Ways of Working

This session is all about defining and refining how you work together as a team, how your function operates, and how you interact with your clients and partners. We’ll explore all that goes into the processes, procedures, and approaches that ensure a smooth operation. Topics include:

  • Receiving and processing work requests

  • Project management, stakeholder management/alignment, and client interactions

  • Scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting

  • Why vs. when

  • Tools/CMS/platforms used to create the magic

  • Saying no more often (or at least, yes...but)

  • Numbers and data vs. words and pictures

  • The difference between important and urgent

  • What If > What Is 

 
 

JAM SESSION 2

Roles and Career Pathing

This session is all about exploring the craft of HR comms and IC and the role they play in any modern corporate setting. We’ll look at channel strategies, content creation, digital employee experience, tech platforms, DE&I, trends, and pitfalls. Then we’ll show how knowing more about all of this will help you better define your career path. Topics include:

  • What employees want from IC and their workplace experience

  • Push vs. pull channels

  • Aligning content with employee expectations

  • The power of the storytelling arc

  • Taking the “corporate” out of Corporate Communications

  • The basics of measurement (yuck! math, right?!)

  • Engagement is a siren song

  • You too can learn to speak HR

  • Reading a balance sheet can be fun

  • OpEx, CapEx, ROI, and other financial slang

 

JAM SESSION3

Upskilling and Future Proofing

This session is all about taking your new thinking to the new level. Whether you want to be a manager, director, VP, CCO, CHRO, or the CEO, understanding more about how to lead others while you lead yourself is paramount to a long and successful career. Topics include:

  • Everyone’s favorite radio station: WIIFM

  • Consulting vs. selling

  • Anticipating vs. reacting

  • Staying curious

  • Exercising power by giving it all away

  • Leading when you aren’t in charge

  • Emotional intelligence and empathy

  • Encouraging the good in others

  • Identifying emerging talent

  • Seeing over the horizon 

 
 

JAM SESSION 4

Creativity for Internal Comms

Your friends in marketing shouldn’t have all the fun. Your employees deserve creative comms just as much as your customers do. So give it to them! Creativity for Internal Comms is a new virtual workshop designed to help IC pros at all levels strengthen their creativity so they can generate new ideas, ignite innovation, and solve problems.

  • Discover what it takes to be creative (Hint: it’s not about arts and crafts)

  • Find and ignite your own creativity through hands-on experiences

  • Hardwire creative confidence so you can use your creativity to generate ideas and solve problems every day

  • Harness the creative talents you already have and think more creatively every day, not just about comms but about moving your company forward

 

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