Skills for change-makers

Irresistible engagement tactics

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

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

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.

Rapid project designer

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

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.

Create workshops for behaviour change

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

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