Think Clearly, Communicate Smartly

Think clearly, communicate smartly – future focussed skills

Investing in the development of young professionals benefits your organisation’s credibility and improves stakeholder relationships and teamwork with clearer communication and better decision-making. Companies who invest in the self-management and problem-solving skills of their staff, not only boost performance and efficiency but also enhance engagement and retention of their best and brightest.

Is there such a training for this? Now there is.

Senior management, directors and human resources are asking themselves:

What are the benefits for your organisation?

How can we best develop our young professionals so that they can carry the business, interact with our clients, members, stakeholders?

We want staff to be able to think through problems, come up with their own creative solutions and be able to articulate their proposals to multiple people – teams, management, members, clients.

We need to build their ability to organise their own work independently, know when to report back in and ask for guidance. In other words – self-management.

An investment in developing these skills of critical thinking, creative solutions are crisp communications is crucial to retaining and getting the best from your young consultants and policy officers.

Our human skills of problem solving, critical thinking, leading with empathy are vital in the AI enabled workplace. We now all have a new AI wizard assistant so how are we going to adapt our working with real people? Our new “Sharper Human Thinking” course is a hands-on, future-focused training workshop designed for staff working in public affairs, policy, and communications who want to sharpen their ability to lead, influence and collaborate with our fellow human beings.

Course Overview

This workshop explores how to think and communicate more effectively—whether you are working through a policy challenge, managing your team, or refining the output of your AI assistant.

Who is this for?
This course is ideal for public affairs and advocacy professionals, team leaders and consultants who want to boost their communication, leadership and collaboration skills in an AI-enhanced workplace.

Outcomes
The aim is to be able to walk away with sharper thinking, deeper insight, and the tools to lead and collaborate more effectively. You will be able to apply these thinking skills to using your AI assistant more effectively as well as working with your human teams.

Course content

Through three interactive modules, you’ll build practical, people-focused thinking skills that you can immediately apply to your day-to-day work:

Critical Thinking & Analysis

How to sit back, consider a problem and ask better questions
Identify assumptions and bias and tailor your solution to your target audience
Make decisions under pressure

Creativity and empathy

Reflect on lessons and patterns from previous attempts take forward initiatives
Lead with purpose and long-term vision
Understand the perspectives of other people in the room

Clear and articulate communications

Ability to package information into what, who, why and the implications
Be able to respond to challenges and difficult questions under pressure
Communicate in word perfect, concise sentences that resonate.

You will learn how these “human thinking” skills can help you use AI tools (like ChatGPT) for better prompting smarter, filtering better, and adding the essential human judgement behind the output.

Course Format

📅 One full-day workshop, or
🧩 Three separate modules (2–3 hours each) delivered over multiple days
💬 Highly interactive: role play, live practice, peer feedback
🛠️ Individual feedback and personalised takeaways