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and Workshops for
Conferences and Symposia
Hugh as after-dinner speaker at an AIOPI annual conference.
Note the flying helmet (always wear a funny hat when you first come
on, said old-style comedians) and the rapt attention of the President,
unlike some who have to sit alongside keynote speakers...
The flying helmet was a gift from an RAF pilot - and often
features in Hugh's community and school talks on flying.
Witty. Wise. Time-outs for the mind. Out-of-the-ordinary. Surprising. Good-humoured. Packed with stories, angles, examples, advice. Down-to-earth. Uplifting. Fun with its sleeves rolled up.
Hugh Gibbons’ unique talks are a different sort of delight for the mind and eye; enhancing many a meeting, conference or symposium programme; small or large, short or long.
By way of difference, they
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Are tailored specially to take account of your audience at your time in your setting – and your needs and aim
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Have more audience resonance than well-worn speechifying by keynote speakers
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Involve and engage the audience – often giving them exercises, moving them around, asking them to discuss things with each other
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Can research the audience beforehand to get their views and voices into the talk
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Are packed with real-life pictures and mind-stimulus material - not the verbal and visual monotony of so many Poorpoint-driven talks
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Often generate material with which to follow up the session – reinforcing the learning Bring lots of stories, jokes, examples, one-liners, cartoons and other waker-uppersHave run for a great diversity of audiences
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Often include Hugh’s automatic slide-shows such as How to Kill a Good Idea, Teach Yourself to Fly a Jaguar, Management Maxims of a Drum Major, Textually Transmitted Diseases, and How to Write Gooder.
The talks listed here give some idea of what to expect. They usually last about an hour. But you can have shorter or longer versions to suit. You can also arrange to have something else built specially or mix‘n’matched to suit a particular setting, audience or function. Some of the sessions are also expandable to half-or full-day in-house workshops.
For more information, just contact Hugh Gibbons
E-mail
hugh@ahaa.org.uk
Tel
01344 451847·
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Lessons in leadership
styles
from Indonesia, Thailand
and Sri Lanka
In December 2005, Hugh Gibbons visited homes, schools, tents, families, barracks, boats, offices, cafes, beaches, villages and other locations in Banda Aceh in Indonesia – the city raked by the tsunami just after 8am on Boxing Day 2004.
His task? To report on some of the humanitarian recovery projects funded by the people of the UK. He met many survivors – and saw at first-hand the work of international and local NGOs.
Hugh has since written, broadcast and spoken face-to-face to several thousand people in the UK. He has also had close contact with many others involved - in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka – including the police, the RAF, and the Royal Navy.
This has let him build up some thoughtful lessons about leadership issues to help people in business reflect on your own styles and actions. His focus is on the issues and mindsets of several leaders - civilian and military - in different settings of the tsunami.
This highly pictorial talk also explores many aspects of disaster relief, including emotion, resilience, stress, communication and courage.
Fees for this talk go to
humanitarian projects.
An introduction to Eye-Q and Visual Intelligence in business and beyond
This highly visual workout
examines such topics as Inattention and Unawareness, Eyeballing Writing for
Errors, Visual Acuity Training for sports teams and individuals, Illusions
that Illustrate, Business Blind Spots, and Danger Signals of Clients and
Customers.
Challenging myths in business
Nooks & crannies of personal communication
Lateral-thinking Lessons for Leaders
This remarkably innovative presentation on management development uses a huge range of stories, experiences and insights from the human side of flying – military, commercial and private - to get audiences thinking about their own communication, leadership, change management and thinking skills. The sort of things you’ll hear about include Amazing Flights, Patter Manuals, the Psychology of Accidents, Wing-Walking as a Career, The Flighty Women of White Waltham, Teach Yourself to Fly a Jaguar, Lessons in Ambiguity, Pilot Officer Prune and many other angles of attack.
What to watch out for - from draft to finish
The talks are also available in specific forms such as
- The Diagnosis and Emergency Treatment of Medical Writing Disorders - developed for the MSc in Pharma Medicine
- Textually Transmitted Diseases
- PPPRS - the Ponderous and Perplexing Prose Regulatory Scheme - developed for AOIPI
- Eyeballing the Boss's Writing - with support staff in mind
- How to Write Gooder What-ever Job Your In - available as a download
- Deadly Sins of Poorpoint Users - a guide to some simple basics
Sideways-looking reading for executives