Although once in a blue moon, I organise some public workshops, it's usually my clients who organisae most of my worshops for their own people.
What we can achieve with this approach is that we can blend my business development stuff into clients' unique context (culture, values, services, etc.), and shake up their businesses from top to bottom. That is, everything I talk about is custom-tailored to specific clients' specifications.
These programmes can be as short as half a day or as long as one full week or longer, depending on clients' objectives.
And since clients don'y pay for my time, we can expand every programme as necessary to achieve the programme's goals.
My programmes are based on what's called forced application in accelerated learning. This is why...
In my experience, when it comes to the typical one-shot training, that is, presenters present their opinions (well, what else?) from the podium to the audience, audience members understand some 80% of the presented stuff, retain about 50% and eventually apply some 20%.
What I try to do is to turn traditional training into real education by adding the elements for long-term retention and the ability for real-life application.
And what is the result?
I can't remember who's said it but I've heard that training, college lectures as well, is a process of getting the ptresenter's notes into the audience members' notepads while cleverly by-passing their brains. Now this is pretty bloody dismal.
So, if you're looking for a speaker with practical "how to..." stuff, presented to your people in the context of your company's mission, vision, core values and overall culture, then follow the link and read my On Becoming A Client document. Relax, there is no obligation here. This package helps you to define whether or not there is a sound financial justification to initiate the engagement.