Practice Notes - October 2008
Invigorate yourself with an injection of energy at one of our short and sharp discussion presentations. Tea and Toast is served at these exciting sessions where we present on a topic of interest and have time for discussion and questions. Come and fire up your morning, and freshen up your thinking. Tea and Toast sessions are free and everyone is welcome.
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Join us for an hour of speculation and analysis. What’s the current state of the parties? What’s firing up voters? What’s on the cards? We’ll try to answer these questions, bearing in mind of course that a week is a long time in politics.
email: jesse@trainingpractice.co.nz if you'd like to come. All welcome and no charge.
What are the tips and tricks used by the top professional speech writers to engage audiences and persuade them? In this session we’ll look at key techniques used in Barack Obama’s speeches. What resonated with audiences and how did he get his key points across?
email: jesse@trainingpractice.co.nz if you'd like to come. All welcome and no charge.
What's happening in the world? What's interesting? What's the news? | ||||
Congratulations to BERL (Business and Economic Research Limited) for their great election calculator. Check out http://www.berl.co.nz/content/economicissues/commentary/1129/election-calculator.aspx This spreadsheet allows you to put your own election predictions in and see the results. We love it. As the election campaign hots up, you’ll be able to work out the effects of different possible scenarios and, of course, compare your own personal prediction with the final result. | ||||
Over the past few years, we’ve kept an eye on the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project at Victoria University. It’s a study of how people actually talk at work. The project’s director is Janet Holmes, Victoria’s Chair in Linguistics. Her recent book, Gendered Talk at Work, (Blackwell Publishing) is an in depth study of how female and male leaders use language at work. She suggests that the traditional use of male and female leadership language is much more complex. Previous research, she argues, suggests that male leaders will tend to be more direct and use the imperative. ie Find me a meeting room, while women will be more indirect and say Could you find me a meeting room? But Janet argues that how leaders use language is far more complex. “Gender identity is just one aspect of an individual’s social identity, and in the workplace context, it is often not the salient dimension…Effective leadership thus involves communicative behaviours conventionally associated with both male and female styles of interaction.” Some women will choose a predominantly female environment and use more facilitative and supportive leadership language, but some women are challenging the stereotypical expectations of female leadership and language is one way they are doing it. This is certainly a complex area and a fascinating one. We suggest, over the next week, pay attention to the ways male and female leaders in your organisation use language and what this says about their leadership style. Happy listening.
We've got some great upcoming courses at the Mercure Hotel in Wellington.
Anyone who either works in the sector or alongside the sector and wants to get up to speed with how things really work, will benefit from this course. Click here for more information
email: jesse@trainingpractice.co.nz if you'd like to come.
Anyone at work who needs to have conversations with their staff, colleagues, managers and others, and has put off having them will benefit from this course. Click here for more information
email: jesse@trainingpractice.co.nz if you'd like to come. |
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