SELLING IT!
Do cold calls have you freezing up? Are you tripping over those next steps? Does chasing the lead leave you chasing your tail? Then it’s time to laugh it off with Selling It by Creative Communication. This workshop teaches sales success through the power of humour, and is framed through the fundamental elements of comedy itself. Through creative writing, improvisation, and sketch, Selling It centres the power of interpersonal connection as a way to establish lasting and beneficial working relationships with new clients.
FUNDING IT!
Fundraising got you down? Has your donor cycle gone flat? Are your donor relations feeling dysfunctional? Then it’s time to laugh it off with Funding It by Creative Communication! This workshop explores establishing and maintaining relationships with donors, through the power of humour and the fundamental elements of comedy itself. Through creative writing, improvisation, and sketch, Funding It centres the power of interpersonal connection as a way to establish lasting and beneficial relationships between your non-profit, established donors, and potential donors. So put the fun in fundraising, with Creative Communication!
Storytelling
The act of telling a compelling story isn’t just for screenwriters, it’s what we do every day in the professional sphere. Pitching to a prospective client is storytelling. Writing marketing copy is storytelling. Giving a report at your office’s weekly meeting is storytelling. Storytelling is an innate human characteristic. In this class we don’t teach people how to be storytellers, we reconnect them with the storytelling impulses they’ve had since childhood.
We present the universal elements of storytelling while leading your team through a fun and accessible series of games designed to reconnect working professionals with their inner storyteller. We impart no-nonsense techniques for connecting their stories with their intended audience, and we have more than a few laughs along the way.
LEADING CHANGE WITH A GROWTH MINDSET
Change, even when it’s intended to lead to positive outcomes, isn’t always easy to manage. It’s the movement from one state of affairs to another, and that transition often comes with uncertainty. When people don’t understand why a change is happening, how they’ll be affected, or what comes next, that uncertainty can create stress, resistance, and tension if it isn’t managed thoughtfully.
Understanding some of the fundamentals of change management, alongside our own mindsets and tendencies when responding to change, can help us better support ourselves and our teammates through that uncertainty. This means understanding not only what is changing, but how organizations move from a current state, through a transition state, toward a desired future state, and what needs to happen on both the technical and people sides to support successful adoption.
This course introduces foundational approaches to organizational change alongside Growth Mindset, drawing primarily on the research of Blackwell, Trzesniewski and Dweck (2007). Together, these ideas provide practical ways to understand how people experience change, why resistance can occur, and how learning, reflection, feedback, and adaptability can help us navigate new ways of working with greater confidence.
TOPICS
Learning, Feedback, and Continuous Growth: Learning from mistakes and others, providing constructive feedback, and continuing to develop through practice and experience.
Understanding Organizational Change: Types, levels, drivers, and organizational change targets
How Organizations Navigate Change: Current, transition, and future states; the technical and people sides of change; and examples of change-management approaches
Change vs. Transition: Understanding the difference between implementing an organizational change and the individual process of adapting to it
The People Side of Change: Change resistance, change fatigue, change load, W.I.I.F.M., and perceived loss
Identifying Sources of Stress: Recognizing how workplace and personal stressors can affect our capacity to navigate change
Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: How our beliefs can influence learning, effort, challenge, and responses to setbacks
Applying a Growth Mindset Through Change: Viewing challenge as opportunity, setting realistic goals, and focusing on process over outcomes
Know Yourself: Understanding our own strengths, challenges, learning preferences, and tendencies when navigating change
