Empowering individuals for team success
Communicate, prioritise, thrive
Do you have a good relationship with your manager? Do people at your company know what you've been working on? Or are you struggling to communicate your needs at work? To align expectations with peers? Are you able to say no when you have too much on your plate?
This workshop is designed to help individuals become better communicators, prioritise tasks effectively, set boundaries, and foster a culture of accountability and resiliency.
While all this is useful while working with your manager, skills taught in this workshop are just as useful when dealing with coworkers, your volunteering work, community, basically anywhere people are working together and other people ask for your time.
As an individual, you will learn essential skills like:
- Improving communication styles for clearer and more effective conversations
- Prioritising tasks based on constraints and collaborating around them
- Setting boundaries and learning to say 'no'
- Encouraging a culture of transparency, accountability, and high performance
- Improving your personal brand by advocating for yourself, and increase your opportunities to grow and develop at work
- Building resiliency and self-care through self-awareness
As a manager, you will value the positive impact on your team members':
- Time management - team members will become more efficient with their tasks and your overall team productivity will improve.
- Increased performance - effective communication and prioritisation will lead to higher quality work and greater output.
- Transparency - open dialogue fostering trust within the team. This will result in fewer misunderstandings and a more cohesive working environment.
- Reduction in frustration - clearer communication and more realistic expectations around what can be accomplished will reduce stress and conflict within the team.
- High-performing team members - by enhancing these skills we amplify your team's capabilities, enabling individuals to grow while also making a significant contribution to the organisation.
To be honest, at first I wasn't sure if this was the right workshop for me - I felt it might be a little premature for my career stage to be worried about 'personal branding' or even 'saying no' - but I'm so glad I went ahead with it anyway!
Elle and Lachlan did a fantastic job bringing into focus why these things have a profound impact on my career development. Through light reading, interactive role-play, easy-to-remember frameworks, group discussion and guided self-reflection, they offered impactful strategies to help me turn knowledge into action, giving me much greater confidence navigating and progressing in any workplace.
Elle and Lachlan are both empathic listeners and feedback driven. Thus, they helped me feel safe to be open and receptive to new ideas and approaches.
Diana So
The workshop felt really well structured and thought out. There was heaps of content that had been curated for most impact. And a good mix of reading and sharing thoughts with others. Reading the content by myself would not have had as much impact.
I liked the time format. It felt like there was enough time to fit in everything without taking too much time off work, and also allow time to process more from the workshop.
Leah Garrett, Technical Lead, Another Go
I highly recommend Blackmill. I attended their "Empowering Individuals for Team Success" workshops, which were packed with valuable insights and practical information.
The sessions provided many "aha" moments, revealing concepts that professionals rarely hear about. After participating, I gained clarity on previously confusing topics and learned actionable advice to enhance my performance.
This experience has helped me grow both personally and professionally, allowing me to add more value to my company.
Leila Beiranvand, Senior Analytics Engineer, GROW
Workshop structure
The workshop will have no more than ten people so we can really explore the material. Through a series of presentations, group discussions, and scenario-based role-plays, you will work with others, share experiences, and learn together.
Curriculum
Getting to know you
Before the workshop, we will schedule 30-minutes to learn more about you, your organisation, your team, and your goals.
Day 1
- Giving feedback
- Practice difficult conversations and confrontations
- Learn a framework for collaboratively solving problems
Day 2
- Managing up and communicating with your manager
- Speaking up at work and strategies to saying no
Day 3
- Personal branding
- Self-care and building resiliency
Code of conduct
Like all our events, this workshop is covered by our code of conduct and joining us assumes your agreement to be bound by the code.
Join us, because thoughtful engineering practices lead to quality, stability, and effectiveness.