Courses
Our mini-courses are distillations of the communication, leadership, and creativity concepts, content, and exercises we teach our graduate-level students. Click on any one to learn more or, better yet, contact us.
This is our "main" course: two days of highly-focused thinking, learning, and exercises, laser-sighted on communicating for results. It takes the critical elements from our other courses and presents them in an embraceable, actionable way.
You know this as well as we do. Look around your own organization: business writing stinks. It's not just that it's difficult to read or act upon: it makes organizations look stupid. This one-day course very quickly and memorably addresses that problem with some key thinking - and, of course, writing - exercises.
Most people would rather have a root canal than speak in front of even a small group. But the work day is loaded with time that you must speak. And listen. And interview. And meet. And present. This one-day course helps both the terrified and the self-assured understand more about how to confidently speak for results in any situation.
Whole companies are devoted to leadership training. This one-day course focuses on just one thing: how leaders communicate, and specifically how they communicate for results.
Great communicators are creative: they use metaphors, tell stories, get an audience to think differently. Linchpin co-founder Chris Labash was, in a former life, creative director of one of the largest and most highly-respected advertising agencies in the world, and has created a one-day course that helps even people who feel they aren't at all creative infuse their communications with more innovative ways to present ideas and information.
Email has been called "the most important business tool since the invention of the telephone." Unfortunately email has also been called "the cockroach of mass communication."
According to Gartner Group, 80% of all IT projects are late, over-budget, or fail completely as a result of poor communication at the outset. People with a technical mindset are rarely thought of as great communicators; fortunately, these are generally the students who find their way to our courses at Carnegie Mellon. This one-day course distills the skills we teach into a memorable, actionable framework for technical communicators, helping them to be clearer, more succinct, more confident, and more interesting communicators.
Our students at Carnegie Mellon are not only deep IT thinkers and doers; most of them are from countries other than the United States. English is not their first language, they have lived and worked all over the world, and have had to balance their own culture's values and social norms with those of the country and culture they find themselves in. With their help, we've codified much of the special communication needs of people in a cross-cultural workforce and have taken our key learning and made it into a one-day course.
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