Masterclasses

Monday 16 March 2020

OVERCOME THE OVERWHELM

with Lauren Parsons

Wednesday 18 March

MASTERING THE GENTLE ART OF BUY-IN

with Simon Dowling

ABOUT YOUR MASTERCLASS

Do you have team members who aren’t coping or could work more effectively? Or are you feeling stressed or overwhelmed with your workload?

This masterclass will help you and your team get out of the ‘overwhelm trap’, showing you techniques to regain control, boost resilience and super-charge productivity. You’ll discover how to create a positive culture where everyone achieves more every day, with less stress.

It’s common, even for high-performing people to feel overwhelmed at times. With the current rate of change, impact of technology and level of connectivity we now experience, it can be difficult to switch off or to prioritise so many competing demands. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to break out of that cycle and be able to lead your team to a thriving culture that prioritises mental wellbeing, this session is for you.

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR, LAUREN PARSONS

Lauren is an award-winning Wellbeing Specialist who believes that everyone deserves to thrive. She is passionate about equipping and inspiring people to truly boost their health and happiness. With 19 years’ experience in the health and wellbeing profession she is a sought after speaker, coach and consultant.

Described as inspiring and life-changing, Lauren is a dynamic and highly-engaging presenter, and master story-teller who will have you laughing, moving and learning in a memorable way. You will leave Lauren’s session feeling uplifted and empowered to create positive change, today!

TEDx speaker, author of real food less fuss, and Seven Fitness Myths to Overcome, and founder of the Snack on Exercise movement. Lauren helps busy people re-discover how to feel vibrant, confident and energised.

Based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, where she lives with her husband and three children, she can often be found hosting dinner parties, spending time outdoors or playing board games. Lauren travels regularly to speak at conferences or in-house, and specialises in helping organisations create a high-energy, peak-performance team culture, which enables people to thrive.

“Lauren manages through enthusiasm and inclusion to inspire all sorts of people to have a go at making changes that they know very well they need to make but don’t know where to start. She encourages that first step breakthrough.”
Fitzherbert Rowe Lawyers, New Zealand

MASTERCLASS PROGRAM

8.30am Registration and coffee

9.00am Session One: Secrets to remaining resilient and highly energised

Discover the essential (but not often used) daily routines that set the foundation for you and your team’s mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. Uncover the secrets to massively strengthen energy, focus and resilience so you can perform at your best.

• Learn the worst way to start your day and what to do instead
• Discover how to ‘win the day’ and the top morning routines successful people use to ensure a magnificent day
• Discover the negative consequences of poor sleep and how restorative sleep enhances every system in your body and brain
• Improve cognitive performance and decision-making ability by establishing daily routines that will boost your vitality
• Understand how to apply this learning to your teams and workplace culture

10.30am Morning tea

10.45am Session Two: Overcome the overwhelm

This session will help you carve a pathway through the overwhelm and show you how to get the most important things done each and every day. You’ll massively boost your effectiveness and remain cool calm and collected, even on the busiest of days.

You’ll discover:

• The biggest mistake that makes you, and your staff, lose hours every week (and how to overcome it)
• How clarity around what is truly important will transform your decision making ability
• Exactly how to overcome the ‘tyranny of the urgent’ and get the right things done
• How and why to carve out time for yourself as a leader to increase your resilience
• How to create a calm, positive atmosphere in which people can thrive
• The steps to reduce anxiety, regardless of what’s going on around you

12.30pm Lunch

1.15pm Session Three: Super-charge your productivity

Imagine being so productive and focused, you achieve all your key tasks in less than a standard workday and head home early, completely satisfied and feeling ahead of the game, ready to spend quality time with your loved ones. Packed with practical time-saving tips to reduce stress and help you achieve more with less time, this session can help make that a reality.

• Understand the best places to focus your time and effort to live life the way you really want
• Discover a revolutionary way to plan and schedule your week that will transform your life
• Achieve more by mastering daily success planning so your highest objectives are never missed
• Uncover productivity techniques that top-performers use to create more freedom and flexibility
• Work smarter not harder and gain hours back every week
• Learn the best time-savings tips, hacks and strategies you can integrate and implement team-wide to maximise productivity

2.45pm Afternoon tea

3.00pm Session Four: Set boundaries, say no and get what you want

Master the skills of confident, positive and assertive communication to significantly improve the quality of your interactions.

• Discover the most common communication mistake you make and how to avoid it
• Learn the fundamentals of assertive communication
• Learn a new way to approach difficult conversations and the non-confrontational way to achieve the outcome you need
• Discover how inspirational leaders motivate change and how to practise empowered delegation
• Establish positive boundaries that create more freedom and give you hours back every week
• Come away equipped with practical strategies you can apply as a leader to reduce stress and creating a thriving organisation

The session will finish with an opportunity to create your own action plan to ensure you take the transformational ideas and strategies from the masterclass back into your own environment, and know exactly how and when to implement them to create sustained positive change!

4.30pm Session close

The masterclass will be conducted using a combination of presentation material and group exercises; maximising your learning potential. Please note that the masterclass content will be tailored to participants’ individual needs so the length of each session may vary. Refreshments will be served at appropriate times, including morning and afternoon teas and lunch.

ABOUT YOUR MASTERCLASS

You have ideas. You have programs and initiatives that you need to get off the ground. But here’s the rub — unless you can get others on board, those initiatives aren’t going anywhere. So how do you build enthusiastic support and engagement for your programs — where people work with you, not because they have to, but because they want to?

Join Simon Dowling, author of “Work with Me: How to get people to buy into your ideas”, for this highly practical one-day workshop.

FEEDBACK FROM PAST DELEGATES

• Great workshop, lots of practical skills and tips as well as theory.
  Regis Aged Care
• Getting tips to practically use the strategies in real life scenarios was invaluable.
  J&J
• Every concept was relevant and tangible. I can take something away from every component. Really loved today. It exceeded my expectations greatly.
  Shine Living Australia
• Great balance of written and thought based work. Great interaction/interactive learning. Value mapping and perception audit so valuable.
  Royal Australian Mint
• Simon was a very engaging and knowledgeable presenter. Most valuable part was having some frameworks to sound ideas out.
  Curtin University
• The whole lot was informative. Taking back a whole lot of knowledge.
  Sydney Trains
• Engaging, practical facilitator.
  Balkin Coaching
• Resonated with current environment – very informative and helpful.
  Regional Australia Bank

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR, SIMON DOWLING

Simon Dowling is a leading thinker on creating collaborative teams and workplaces. As a speaker, facilitator and educator, he works closely with leaders and teams from some of Australia’s most interesting organisations, equipping them with the inspiration and know-how to build strong, highly engaged cultures.

Simon possesses a unique blend of creativity and pragmatism – something reflected in his past experience. He began his career as a commercial lawyer, and is also an experienced improviser, regularly performing with leading improvisation company Impro Melbourne. He was a regular cast member on Working Dog’s hit TV show Thank God You’re Here.

Collaborative leadership is a topic so close to Simon’s heart that he wrote a book about it. In Work with Me: How to get people to buy into your ideas (Wiley, 2016), Simon encourages everyone to become a champion of buy-in— a critical skill for ‘small L’ leadership… the essence of any collaborative workplace.

MASTERCLASS PROGRAM

8.30am Registration and coffee

9.00am Session One: A roadmap for generating buy-in

In this first session, we explore the opportunities and challenges associated with buy-in, and introduce the group to a simple but powerful framework for understanding the key elements in generating buy-in. Key topics include:

• What it means to generate true buy-in
• Understand the 3 ‘M’s of buy-in
• It all starts with you: how to generate a level of conviction that underpins your influence

10.30am Morning tea

10.45am Session Two: Creating the right mood for buy-in

In this session, Simon will lead you through a range of strategies for generating the right emotional platform for generating buy-in, with an opportunity to explore how these can be applied in your own context. Topics covered in this session include:

• How emotions govern our decisions
• People buy people first: how people’s perception of you creates a bias that is key to achieving buy-in
• The 3 different categories of perception, and how to use them to adjust the way you show up

12.30pm Lunch

1.15pm Session Three: The winding path to yes

In this session, Simon introduces a conversational framework for building agreement, offering language and examples of how to handle resistance and get people on board. Again, you’ll have lots of opportunity to apply and practice principles learned in the context of your own examples. Learn how to:

• Building a yes-able proposition
• Dealing with pushback and resistance
• A powerful “go script” to use to structure any conversation or communication

2.45pm Afternoon tea

3.00pm Session Four: Ideas into action

It’s one thing to build agreement; but that doesn’t guarantee action. One of the most critical aspects of mastering buy-in is creating movement and momentum. In this session, Simon will take you through 3 key strategies for turning agreement into action. Themes covered include:

• Why people don’t always do what they commit to doing
• How to ensure the first critical steps of positive action
• How to scaffold the first 90 days to help people build habits
• Ways to build longer term, sustained change

The session will finish with an opportunity for you to create your own action plan for taking ideas and strategies from the masterclass back into your own environment, to get you straight into generating buy-in!

5.00pm Session close

The masterclass will be conducted using a combination of presentation material and group exercises; maximising your learning potential. Please note that the masterclass content will be tailored to participants’ individual needs so the length of each session may vary. Refreshments will be served at appropriate times, including morning and afternoon teas and lunch.