Skills for change-makers

Irresistible engagement tactics
• Tues 21 April

A fun session where you'll learn how to grab attention, generate buzz and maximise the 'come-and-play' of your next engagement project.

Plus you'll discover how to 'break the box' and liberate your team's imaginations to let them generate original and magnetic ideas.

You'll:

• Learn fun, creative, brainstorming methods to make your next project buzzworthy, game-like, social, and rewarding.
• Fill up your imagination with inspiring new ideas to attract audiences.
• Walk away with a palette of do-able 'out of the box' tactics to apply in your next project.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Changeology Masterclass.

Actually useful theories of change
• Wed 22 April

In this insightful session, Les demystifies the essential brainware for anyone working on behaviour change or action projects.

You'll:

• Understand the psychology of behaviour change, including how to avoid resistance and denial.
• 'Get' the vital theories and models for devising change projects, including Self-efficacy, Risk Perception, Diffusion of Innovations, program logic and more.
• Be able to utilise these theories and models in real life projects.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Changeology Masterclass.

Persuasive messages
• Fri 24 April

Every successful project depends on your audience saying 'yes' to an invitation. In this intensive hands-on session, you'll learn how to create invitations that are irresistible.

Your communications will never be 'same old' again.

You'll:

• Learn how to craft pitches, posts, media releases, and articles people will want to say "yes!" to.
• Discover a formula for devising irresistible invitations.
• Understand the vital elements of communication - attention, inspiration, risk, credibility, norms, values and action clarity.
• Ensure your communications travel by word of mouth.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Messages for 'Yes' workshop.

Create a behaviour change project
• Mon 27 April

This is a vital practical skill for anyone designing a change or engagement project.

It equips you to facilitate powerful, original brainstorms that feed directly into project planning.

You'll:

• Learn a technique to rapidly design an innovative change/engagement project from scratch (or fix an existing project).
• Learn how to harness the knowledge of a diverse brains trust.
• Walk away with a well-conceived, ready-to-prototype you can apply in real life.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Changeology Masterclass.

Facilitate with confidence
• Tues 28 April

The foundational skills for facilitating satisfying, productive workshops and meetings, large or small, face-to-face or online, on any subject.

A career-changer for budding facilitators, and an excellent refresher for seasoned facilitators.

You'll:

• Use a template to create a perfect interactive session in any context.
• Win the authority to facilitate any group, live on online.
• Create smiles, put people at ease, and maintain high levels of participation.
• Never run a boring session again.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Facilitate with Confidence workshop.

Devise a behaviour change workshop
• Fri 30 April

Want to run dynamic, energising workshops with lasting impact on participants' lives, businesses or farms?

You'll:

• Get inspired by fantastic ideas and examples of well-designed community workshops.
• Understand 6 vital success factors you can build into any session.
• Use an all-purpose brainstorming template to rapidly generate a real life workshop plan.
• Never run a boring workshop again.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Practice Change Masterclass (specialised training for farm extension staff).

Add 'zap' to volunteer groups
• Thurs 7 May

This fun interactive workshop harnesses the power of reinvention to spark new zest and enthusiasm in volunteer groups.

Hear about great reinvention and outreach ideas and have a chance to share your own.

You'll:

• Be inspired by exciting ideas that make volunteer gatherings unmissable
• Maintain happy, engaged members and high turn-out at working bees
• Learn how to facilitate volunteers to generate their own brilliant ideas
• Learn proven, simple, low-cost techniques to spread your message.

This session is an excerpt from Les's full-day Passion Mashing workshop.

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning." - Albert Camus