With Ben Whitehouse
Practical communication workshops for teams and leaders who want to work through difficult conversations, listen to other points of view and make their next steps clear.
A workshop starts with the situations your people face. That might be giving feedback, explaining a decision or maintaining trust when there is disagreement. Share the challenge and the change you want to see so Ben can shape the session around it.
Ben brings experience from elite rugby and frontline policing into the room. The focus is on listening, understanding different perspectives and communicating clearly, including when you do not yet have every answer.
The WHSTL learning structure begins with context: the situation and why it matters to your team. A relevant concept gives people a way to examine it, whether the focus is communication, judgement, accountability or team standards.
People work through how the idea applies to their own situations, reflect on feedback and agree what to do next. The purpose is to move beyond an interesting discussion to a practical action they can use in their work.
Workshops suit a specific challenge that needs time for discussion and application. Leadership sessions also give leaders and managers space to examine their behaviours, standards and practical commitments.
Focused workshops are available as 90-minute or half-day sessions. The brief helps determine the focus and suitable format. A workshop can stand alone or follow a keynote, giving people time to apply its ideas to their own conversations and decisions.
Ben Whitehouse is a professional rugby referee, former frontline police officer and founder of WHSTL. He helps leaders and teams apply lessons from those environments to their own work.
Describe the conversation or challenge, who will take part and what you would like people to do differently. You can include team size and preferred timing. A sentence or two is enough to start.
A development programme connects several sessions so people can return to the work, reflect on experience and strengthen their habits. Ben can discuss whether a focused workshop or a programme fits your needs.
Tell Ben who will be taking part, what you would like to work on and any preferred timing.
Start a brief