This document describes 17 mini-workshops focused on skills like brainstorming, mind mapping, building trust, leadership, innovation, happiness, and presentation skills. Each 90-180 minute workshop has a unique learning outcome and interactive style to enhance work and life performance through short, relevant sessions on topics such as creativity, communication, problem-solving and managing change.

1. Choose from 17 mini-workshops,
each with a unique learning and action outcome
Empower your people with workshops that are relevant,
rapid, enjoyable and to the point

2. Our short workshops bring new learning, tools and
techniques to enhance people’s performance at work …
and beyond.
Duration: 90-180 minutes.
Participants
Leaders and managers,
senior and junior
officers, all people,
any number.
Style
Vibrant, creative,
interactive with
solid learning
outcomes.

3. Brainstorming and Beyond
What’s a brainstorm? How to do it right
and make it work for you and what to do
when it seems to be going wrong.
Expected outcomes
Participants will learn
how to facilitate a
brainstorm, what to do
before, during and after
the session for best
results.

4. Expected outcomes
Participants will learn to
use mind mapping for
creativity, organization and
learning.
Mind mapping is a tool for recording things in a
mindful, visual way. It helps organize thoughts,
ideas and actions. And it is a formidable tool for
generating new ideas.
Mind Mapping for Personal Efficiency & Creativity

5. Expected outcomes
Participants will discover different
dimensions of trust and how they
might promote them in their teams
and in all of their business and life
transactions.
Trust is crucial in teamwork and in any social
activity. Building trust is a responsibility in
which all members of an organization should
actively engage.
Building Trust

6. Expected outcomes
Participants will have open
conversations on advice from
experts taken from business
literature. They will offer each
other tips on leadership and
shortlist the best advice.
Leadership Advice
Leadership skills at all levels can be learned and
developed. This workshop is based on open
dialogue around snippets of good advice not on
long theories or habits of other people.

7. Expected outcomes
Participants will play a
simulation game and make
decisions on how to promote
innovation. Their decisions will
be peer reviewed and
debriefed.
Innovation Leadership
What must change to make our organization
more innovative? What change in structure,
culture and personal behaviour needs to
happen?

8. Expected outcomes
Participants will learn to take
responsibility for their own
happiness and they will
explore practises that have
been proven to increase
happiness at work and in life.
Happiness @ Work
What makes you happy/unhappy at work?
What can you do about it?

9. Expected outcomes
Participants will seek and
define their own personal
brand to differentiate
themselves and will
provocatively challenge
accepted work practises.
Dare to be Different!
Conformity is fine when it comes to
standardise or streamline processes. Yet there
is great value in differentiation too.

10. Expected outcomes
Participants will explore the
powers and pitfalls of team
collaboration and how to raise
their own teamwork to higher,
more exciting levels of
teamwork.
The Power of Innovative Teams
Nothing happens in “solo” mode in an
organization, it all happens in teams.
But there are good teams, bad teams
and innovative teams.

11. Expected outcomes
Participants will learn the
difference between problems to
be solved and polarities to be
managed and how they might
approach managing the polarities
in practise.
Managing Polarities
Our work is full of apparent ambiguities such as
efficiency vs innovation, teamwork vs individual
excellence, collaboration vs competition.

12. Expected outcomes
Through a simulation participants
will explore various dimensions of
change and how to best deal with
it, personally and as an
organization.
Managing Change
Change and how to manage it are both
organizational and personal issues.

13. Expected outcomes
Participants will take an assessment
(Creative Problem Solving Profile – Min
Basadur) to determine their personal
style in solving problems and explore
other styles and resultant behaviors.
How are you creative?
The question is not “how creative are
you?” but “how are you creative?” All
people are creative and they use their
creativity in different ways.

14. Expected outcomes
Participants will understand the value
Powerpoint can add to (or subtract
from) a speaker. They will pick up tips
to make their presentations more
impactful.
Presenting with Powerpoint
Let’s face it we have all experienced
death by Powerpoint. In fact it is such a
valuable tool for presenters they can’t
do without it. Long live Powerpoint!

15. Expected outcomes
With the help of a card game or
two and a few exercises,
participants will practise and
learn how to improve their
listening skills.
Listening, really listening
Most people will agree that listening is usually the
weakest link in our personal communication.
What can we practically do about it?

16. Expected outcomes
Participants will learn to present
themselves via a 30-second and 1 to
2-minute self-presentation and will
offer feedback to their colleague’s
presentations.
This is Me
Presenting oneself is as pleasing as it is frightening.
Practise it! It can only help you and your career and
your life.

17. Expected outcomes
Participants will play a simulation
game in which they engage in selling
an idea of their own, alone and in
teams. The most effective methods
of persuasion are then unravelled.
Selling your Ideas
The most important skill at work is probably
the ability to sell one’s thoughts and ideas.

18. Expected outcomes
Participants will come unprepared to
play improvisation games and so
discover the practise of collaborative
creativity and the power of “yes … and”.
Improvise your Life
Most of life is unplanned.
How do you become a better
operator in unplanned situations?

19. Expected outcomes
Participants will explore how they
may transform a conflict situation
or a negotiation from hard
bargaining to win-win.
Make Love, not War
Collaboration beats conflict hands down!
But is it always possible?