Throughout this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to:

• Connect with your team to maximise engagement:
  Discover how to identify and adapt to your team’s unique needs and working styles. Learn to build rapport quickly and foster an environment of trust and engagement. You’ll walk away with strategies for tailoring your approach to different colleagues, clients or stakeholders, ensuring everyone feels included and ready to participate actively.

• Structure sessions for maximum engagement: Learn how to design and deliver content in a way that captures attention and keeps it. We’ll dive deep into techniques like chunking content, posing questions, and using interactive elements that help your audience stay engaged and retain information longer. The goal is to shift away from passive presentations and meetings, and to create dynamic sessions that hold the interest of even the most time-poor, distracted team.

• Communicate in a way that guides and ignites (rather than lectures): Leave behind the traditional “sage on the stage” model and adopt more effective ways of engaging your audience; whether that’s in a team meeting, a client briefing or an executive presentation. Learn how to use storytelling, questioning, and other interactive techniques to spark curiosity and discussion. We’ll show you how to foster a two-way dynamic where you’re guiding and empowering your audience instead of just talking at them.

• Diagnose what went wrong when a session doesn’t land: Not every presentation , meeting or training session goes perfectly. Sometimes the content doesn’t land, or the room isn’t engaged. This workshop will teach you how to troubleshoot and adapt in real time, with practical methods for diagnosing common challenges.

Here are a few variations we’ve created, however the possibilities are endless – it could be adapted for any corporate or organisational training context: 

• Making the most of an intercultural learning environment (for organisations with a diverse workforce):
  In a multicultural environment, understanding and embracing cultural differences can greatly enhance the learning experience. This variation of the workshop focuses on how to navigate intercultural communication, address the needs of a diverse audience, and make your teaching more accessible and inclusive to all. Learn how to create a culturally responsive approach that helps bridge gaps and fosters mutual respect, resulting in a more effective and cohesive learning environment.

• Making the most of your existing learning resources (for organisations seeking to upgrade a specific presentation or online course):
  If you already have existing learning materials but aren’t sure how to improve them, this variation will show you how to elevate what you have. I’ll work with you directly to optimise your current presentation, workshop or e-learning modules to make them more engaging, impactful, and relevant to your audience. This includes the creation of facilitator notes, training manuals, worksheets, and assessments as needed.

• Tailored workshops for specific organisations and needs:
  The beauty of this workshop is its adaptability. We have adapted this workshop for lecturers struggling in a multicultural vocational learning environment, corporates updating executive training on insider trading, and government departments looking to improve train driver education and community engagement strategies. We can tailor the workshop content to fit the specific context and challenges your organisation is facing – in fact this is why this workshop packs the punch it does – it’s never the same workshop twice. Open the next box to see how these variations can work. 

Yes, this workshop can be tailored to your specific needs.

I’ve delivered this workshop in a variety of settings, which have all received 5 star reviews.

• Wesfarmers Limited, Company Secretariat, WA 2025:
  • 1 half day workshop and 3 two hour follow up workshops
  • 4 facilitators of the annual Wesfarmers Continuous Disclosure and Securities Trading
  • Revamp of the executive training for employees of Wesfarmers divisions (Bunnings, Kmart, Officeworks etc)
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews
• WAFES (Western Australian Fire and Emergency Services) Annual Conference 2024:
  • 45 minute interactive presentation
  • Over 200 participants from all over WA
  • ‘How to make learning fun and memorable as Fire and Emergency Services Personnel’
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews
• Community Engagement Facilitator Forum, Busselton, WA 2025:
  • Half day workshop
  • 80 Bushfire Ready and Community Engagement Officers
  • How to engage community more effectively
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews

Wesfarmers Limited, Company Secretariat, WA:

“Maria helped us rethink our executive training on continuous disclosure and securities trading. She was instrumental in moving the training from a lecture format to one in which executives of all learning styles participate actively and, most importantly, understand and know how to apply the content. Maria’s experience, ideas and energy have transformed our training.”

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WAFES (Western Australian Fire and Emergency Services) Annual Conference:

Comment from a participant who approached me after the session: “You’ve given me faith that as trainers we don’t need to keep torturing our people with compliance training – can you help my organisation?” 

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North Metro TAFE WA: (40 qualified vocational lecturers, focusing on intercultral awareness and inclusion)

• • 100% of participants answered YES to these questions:
    • ☑️ Overall this session was valuable in helping me develop my skills and capabilities (knowledge, behaviour or mindset) 
    • ☑️ Are there any skills or knowledge that you have explored during this session that you will now be able to apply in your workplace?
  • Regarding the content and delivery, do you have any improvements you would like to suggest, or is there anything you require further clarification on?
    • “Make it longer!” 
    • “More sessions like this please!”
    • Most other responses were “No” 🤩
  • Would you like to share any additional comments?
    • “Really enjoyed it.”
    • “Loved it.”
    • “Thank you, energetic and helpful.”
    • “Thanks for a great presentation and Maria is a superstar!!”
    • “Really enjoyed the session Maria has wealth of knowledge.”
    • “Appreciation of Marias energy, enthusiasm and passion.”
    • “High energy, very engaging.”
  • From the Professional Development team:

    • “It was a most engaging workshop which addressed a number of the issues we had identified as important, in terms of effective teaching and learning strategies in the intercultural classroom. It was especially useful to have an external facilitator, outline similar teaching strategies and skills to those we promote here at NMT. I could hear the audience pick up on this which was terrific. Please forward my thanks to Maria, both in terms of the design and delivery of this session. It has obviously been well received by our educators.”

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