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What links Bulls and Better Conversations?

We’ve been working on Better Conversations for a while now. We’ve iterated and improved the course and learned a lot along the way. We’ve had to make some tough decisions about what to include and what to leave out, which we are often asked about. This article is an attempt to explain our thinking by framing it in the context of Picasso’s Bull Series[1].

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Credentials/Badges are here!

We are now ready to issue credentials/badges which you can use on LinkedIn etc.

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Simon on the Curiosulus Chronicles Podcast

I was recently interviewed by Rohit Gautam for the Curiosulus Chronicles Podcast about leadership, culture and the Better Conversations course.

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Promotional video for our BCF talk at the OU

As part of the promotion for the event at the Open University next week @russ_lewis and @lizmoody kindly arranged for us to have a view recorded by the OU’s media team. And oh my, what a difference an experienced producer makes! We spoke for ~20 minutes which they then edited down to this 3 minute video.

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Chandima on the “Clean at Work” Podcast

The latest “Clean at Work” podcast was an in-depth interview with @chandimad about the course, the Foundation, and what we’re trying to do. It is a really good summary of where we currently are.

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When is a course not just a course?

It does feel like Simon and I have known each other for a long time, however that is not so. It’s surprising to us just how quickly the course and the Foundation have evolved in the past year or so.

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New Dates Announced

We’ve released new course dates which you can see on our course dates page

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How many ways are there to deliver a course like Better Conversations? (Part 2)

Broadly, the experiment worked out; we delivered a quality experience with a diverse group of facilitators. We did however learn stuff we weren’t expecting to learn…

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Clean in Sales

In this video, James Lawley interviews/models me about what he does in a first Sales call, developing a metaphor to help draw out more detail.

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How many ways are there to deliver a course like Better Conversations? (Part 1)

We’d like to find out, so we are running a Better Conversations course in April, with a number of twists which I thought people might be interested in.

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