Sensemaking is a skill for today. Identified by the Institute for the Future as one of the Top 10 skills we'd be needing by 2020, sensemaking is about connecting the dots, understanding the deeper meaning of what's going on, what's being said, what it all means. 

In this era of shortening attention spans, information overload, and rapid business progress, it's vital we know how to make sense. 

And while the individual task of sensemaking - thinking, mapping and acting on information - is able to be learned, what happens when people work together, collaborate, and try to make sense together? 

The workplace meeting is one of the key ways we try to make sense; and meetings are a daily workplace disaster. 

They're boring, time wasting, run poorly, achieve few outcomes and usually result in people saying what a waste of time they were. 

And this is why Collective Sensemaking is a skill, technique and capability required by teams today more than ever. 

Little is changing with meeting practices; we'll have to change ourselves, how we think, talk, work together and make sense of information. 

This half or full day program brings your team together and gives them the skills of sensemaking: 

- individually, and then

- collectively.

Participants learn:

- contemporary sensemaking techniques

- how to think quicker and clearer

- how best to communicate concepts and ideas

- how to map information visually

- how to communicate uncertainty

- how to unpack complex information

- how to work with ambiguity.

This is a practical session based on contemporary sensmaking expertise and practice. 

Your team will work better together, understand each other and present information succintly and clearly. 

Contact Lynne Cazaly for an information pack on Collective Sensemaking.

Lynne Cazaly led the Telstra Digital Channels Extended Leadership Team through

a Collective Sensemaking Program.