Needs Understanding intro workshop
An inspiring and practical short workshop to get started with Needs Understanding
Overview
A 90 minute workshop introducing you and your team to Needs Understanding tools that can help with communication and problem-solving in the workplace and beyond.
Who is it for?
This is for anyone wanting to get a taste of Needs Understanding. You might be looking for fresh and exciting ideas to inspire your team. You might be considering whether Needs Understanding could help you in a bigger way, and want to road test it with some of your people. You might want a prompt for starting a conversation about communication and teamwork amongst your organisation. Practical just as much as visionary, participants will always go away with tools to use in their day to day life and work.
What will I get from the workshop?
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Two to three Needs Understanding communication skills that you can use immediately to make challenges easier to navigate​:
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understand why you get triggered and what to do about it​
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discover how to start difficult conversations in ways that make it more likely they will work
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know how to respond to other people so that they will be able to hear what you want to say
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A way to understand yourself and your colleagues and make sense of interactions through the lens of human needs
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A sense of the precise way that Needs Understanding can benefit your team
How does it work?
1. Planning
Talk with Alice to tailor the workshop to fit what your team needs.
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2. Workshop
Delivered online or in person, for any number of people.
Workshop content
The intro workshop offers an introduction to the core principles of Needs Understanding, and tools from the first three skill areas shown in the diagram: Listen with empathy, Understand yourself with compassion and Speak to be heard. We cover around 7% of the core Needs Understanding skills.
