goAgile Communications

The effectiveness of your communications increases the more time you spend in the same room together. Communicating face-to-face using the aid of a whiteboard is many times more effective than documentation. This close connection is inherent to Agile methodologies. It is not enough to just communicate. It’s critical to be able to communicate to be understood and build relationships. goAgile helps both leaders and their teams enhance their communications skills—opening the way for greater understanding, motivated teams, and increased trust.

goAgile Communications Courses

Communicating to Get Results

Designed to help IT team members successfully communicate project and organization key messages, gain the strategies and tools needed to overcome the barriers to effective communications within the organization, and collaborate across-teams on results and business value issues.

Duration: 1 day

Agile Presentations: Making Your Messages Stick

Are you an Agilist who is having trouble communicating to your team? Have you presented your ideas to various audiences and been greeted by yawns or flat-out disagreement? Being able to effectively communicate your messages will not only enhance your reputation as a communicator, it will motivate and inspire others to reach your business goals.

This course takes the Agile Software Development Manifesto and relates it to making compelling presentations and communicating more effectively. Interactive exercises give participants the tools they can immediately use to improve their communications and make their messages stick. The course is designed to improve effectivenss and confidence when doing public speaking whether for a group of two or 2,000.

Duration: 1 ½ days

Because of the intense, individual coaching this course offers, it is limited to no more than 4 participants.

Cross-cultural Communications

Designed to help EU-based organizations working with teams, customers or other stakeholders in the USA, this course will help businesses understand and diffuse the cultural differences that interfere with getting messages across to their American audiences—helping them achieve greater success.

Duration: customized for your particular needs

Flirting with Your Customers

All over the world, there are classes in flirting that teach how to connect with others. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. Using goAgile’s 8 Steps to Flirting With Your Customers©, participants learn how flirting techniques translate to use in a business setting—offering inspiration to create stronger connections, greater understanding of business customers, and build business value.

Duration: 1/2 day