Lynne Cazaly leading a team workshop with staff at Melbourne University in 2024 

In Person | Remote | Hybrid

for Events Teams Conferences & Offsites

These energetic and impactful sessions are part keynote and part workshop

- practical, fresh and relevant -

45 - 90 minutes to 3-hour half-day sessions

Clever Skills

Navigate the changing landscape of your work with a curated and relevant selection of 10 (from the 25) clever skills from Lynne Cazaly’s 2024 book, ‘Clever Skills’. Focused on knowledge work activities like critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity and pattern matching, these skills are essential for adaptability in today’s world of work. No matter what happens in work or life, and whether you’re working alone or with others, clever skills can be practically applied in these tricky times. 

Cognitive Load Coping

In this world of too much information it doesn't take long before we feel the effects of cognitive overload. The pace of information isn't slowing down, so we'll have to adapt by learning a new capability that will help us think, manage, share and cope with information. How are you currently handling information? Do you write lists of information? Or type up slide packs to share in meetings? Do you use spread sheets rich in information but poor in context and meaning? Be transformed by this practical skills session and take this capability back to your team, board and workplace to do more with the information deluge that’s forever incoming. 

Creative Collaboration

No longer can we just put people together and say 'collaborate will you!' Old ways of sitting around in meeting rooms waiting to have your say isn't collaborating. Or writing an idea on a sticky note and putting it on a whiteboard isn't modern collaboration either. There are new, creative, inspiring and exciting ways of getting people geared up to collaborate and generating genius ideas at energetic meetings and gatherings. Learn the skills to be a better contributor and collaborator... and a better leader of collaboration. 

Sync Async : Leading Asynchronous Work

Contemporary leaders know how to stop defaulting to sync work – everyone in a meeting – and shifting to async work using tools, tech and methods that save time and improve productivity. But it doesn't happen overnight or automatically. Learn why async work is having such an impact in teams and organisations who start making the change. It's better for personal productivity and wellbeing... and helps make better progress, sooner.

#meetless

This is the year to shift the dependence on dull, time wasting meetings and identify and accelerate your use of new tools, techniques and methods. Teams report an increase in wellbeing, higher levels of productivity and greater engagement when they DO meet. Make meetings more valuable and only hold them when you absolutely must. In short, #meetless. I'll show you how and you'll release time from your schedule and stress from your working life. 

New Ways of Leading

Leadership keeps evolving; old ways of are being updated and replaced by new capabilities and techniques. Depending who we’ve “learned” leadership from, and when, our concept of leadership may need refreshing. Lynne’s workshop brings you right up to date!

Productivity & Personal Effectiveness

The world’s most successful productivity and personal effectiveness techniques can put some of our old ways of working to shame. It's time to smarten up our day-to-day task management, priority setting and decision making tools to help reduce waste, minimise the amount of rework we do and save our sanity. Some of them will surprise you! How many of them do you use?

Ready to Speak

Lynne Cazaly’s international experience as a main stage and online speaker means she has plenty of tips, techniques and methods to lift your speaking skills and capability, no matter your audience, topic or role. The session addresses presentation themes, content, delivery, mental preparation, rehearsal hacks and building engagement in the room. 

ish: Progress over Perfection 

Too often we pursue perfect and unreasonably high standards. Science, research and experience shows we need to go for ‘good enough’ instead. Here’s how to: using clever incremental and iterative strategies. These are the tools, methods and techniques adopted by productive and innovative businesses who don't get hung up on the fruitless pursuit of perfect. Know which things to make excellent, and which things to work on iteratively towards great. 

Sensemaking

Some call it sketching, scribing, visual thinking – it’s a skill that becomes life-changing for thinking and communication. To be able to work out what you’re thinking and share that with another (via digital share whiteboards and apps, or via analogue tools on a notepad or whiteboard) is where sensemaking happens. It’s not art – it’s smart! This session rapidly builds confident sketching skills to ideate, generate, communicate and collaborate in these times when information is everywhere. Build confidence to express your ideas, share your thinking, innovate with others and co-create as a strong member of the team.