Leadership Lab

Engaging Through Your Keyboard

Rediscover the art of influencing another person through your keyboard - reducing conflict, stress and inefficiency. Whether it’s an email, a chat, or even sending a letter out, craft sharp, professional messages that hit the mark with clarity, confidence and the right tone.
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What You Need Before Starting

Download Your Reference Guide & Workbook

This is a hands on, interactive session, requiring you to analyse examples of text provided, but also asking you to apply these skills to your own work samples.

Make sure you have at least 3 examples of previous customer communications to identify what you are doing well along with the opportunities. You will be referring to these, allowing you to apply the techniques to your own work as you go.

Learning Outcomes & What Works Against Us

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1. Learning Outcomes

What we will learn today
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2. What Works Against Us?

9 clangers when communicating via emails or chats
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3. Immediate Engagement Through Niceties

Set the tone and energy

Strategic Empathy & Intent Statements

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4. Intent Statements

Why they are a powerful tool and how to use them
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5.Strategic Empathy

The centrepiece for managing conflict and emotion
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6. Strategic Empathy & Intent Statements

The formula to keep the communication moving forward
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7. Find & Acknowledge Empathy Triggers 

Finding empathy triggers in your work
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8. Strategic Empathy - Loss 

Creating powerful empathy statements
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9. How to Deal With Emotions

Addressing emotions that arise in the written context

Language

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10. Internal Language

How it creates a power imbalance
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11. The Power of Seasoned Language

How to get our intended audience on-side
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12. Neutral Language

You, me and blame

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13. What is Pointed Language? 

Neutralising language that causes friction and conflict
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14. Neutralising Pointed Language

Neutralising pointed language in your work
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15. Negative Language

Put it in the bin

Delivering Bad News

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16. How to Deliver Bad News

The art of delivering unpalatable news

Authors

Jodie Bedoya

DIRECTOR

Jodie Bedoya is the Founder and director of the Melbourne based training company, eMatrix, which she began after identifying a gap in practical training and guidance for frontline staff, team leaders and managers in the art of communication.


Alex Daniel

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Alex's expertise within dispute resolution, call quality, hardship and process improvement has enabled him to find a unique balance in facilitation customer engagement, eliminating conflict and debt collection.


Kaelia Cockington

TRAINING CONSULTANT

With a background in psychology, developmental trauma and homelessness, Kaelia brings awareness to organisations about vulnerability and how best to navigate conversations for people with complexity.