Planning for COVID-19

Webinar Series

Planning for COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all of us, the changes and impacts will continue for some time. It’s during times like this when you need you remember that you are part of a community of best practice, so don’t be alone. The Forum is your friendly, safe environment for sharing ideas, top tips and pitfalls to avoid. In this time of uncertainty its important that we collaborate and work together, bringing together ideas and use this time as an opportunity to learn and continue to raise standards.

We have designed three short series of learning academy modules, along with a top-tips & pitfalls to avoid for homeworking webinar and then a virtual networking group to help you. Phil Anderson has written an article about some of the considerations you might need to make.

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Published on 20 December 2022

Box Set: Engagement

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The Modules

Introduction To Stakeholder Management
Without being able to work alongside key stakeholders, there is little value to being an excellent planner as your plans will not come to fruition! You need to understand who your stakeholders are and how to communicate with them successfully.
- Learn how to map your stakeholder network
- See how different people benefit from different approaches and language
- Understand how to make your outputs flexible for multiple audiences

Understanding People (Including How To Say No)
Understanding Growth / Fixed mindset:
- What happens in our heads when we hear or say "no"
- Learn to handle objections

Principles Of Persuasion
It is vital that Planning, Quality and Insight teams are able to engage with and influence their key stakeholders within their organisation. Stakeholders may need to be persuaded to change their view on something in order to become an advocate.
- What is Persuasion?
- Cialdini’s Principles of Persuasion
- Key Persuasion Techniques and the Influencing Toolkit

Communication Planning
Learn the role planning plays in implementing your strategic objectives. Understand the importance of your role and how you can help others.
- Understand how the strategic objective is implemented into a forecasting, scheduling and real-time plan.
- Learn about the importance of effective data checkpoints, change governance and hand-overs
- Play a part in driving continuous improvement and become the nerve-centre of the business

Introduction To Influencing Skills
Being able to influence the decision of others is a key skill for all planners. In this session, learn the basic approaches which will allow your audience to process information in their own way, using their beliefs and memories to deliver great outcomes.
- Learn the difference between Tell, Ask and Influence
- Understand how people make decisions
- See how the language of engagement helps influencing

The cost of this mini series including accreditation is great value at £325 + VAT and free for students on our assisted learning pathway.

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