Engineers need to share ideas and communicate well. Stories have been used for thousands of years to share knowledge, build communities and inspire action. In our new course Storytelling for Engineers you learn how to structure narrative to communicate well, this is critical for producing better business cases, proposals and presentations. Read on to find out more.
This course will introduce you to the insights, ideas and methods relevant for today’s world and use storytelling to:
Create more compelling, engaging and memorable communications
Enhance your ability to present your case and persuade others to pay attention, understand, remember and consider your solutions
Storytelling for Engineers helps engineers to harness the power of storytelling to communicate well, describe your ideas and write better business cases, proposals and presentations.
Storytelling for Engineers - In-person
This has 4 modules and delivered over 2 days. Each module is highly interactive with many learning exercises and is reinforced with reviews, feedback and coaching sessions.
When: 9-10 November 2021 Where: Egrove Park, Saїd Business School, Oxford, UK Cost: £1,200.00 (plus VAT) no accommodation
£ 1400.00 (plus VAT) including two nights accommodation
Highly efficient in just 4 hours- 9.00am – 13.00pm. It begins with an hour of tuition concluding with an assignment – for you to complete before joining the tutorial an hour later. In the interactive two-hour tutorial you work through the assignment as a team together. It concludes with a review and clear learning objectives.
When: From 8 October 2021 Where: Online - Oxford TRIZ Live Cost: £200 (plus VAT)
TRIZ teaches us to keep acronyms and technical jargon in their place. Good communication is clear, memorable and immediate.
Read my latest blog to learn about my journey towards faster and effective TRIZ teaching by applying TRIZ to my teaching techniques. Working with genius cartoonist Clive Goddard helped me deliver ‘at a glance’ understanding even of complex and important issues.
Case Study: Saving jobs – How TRIZ helped increase employment opportunities AND profitability – while cutting costs.
When faced with the prospect of loosing their jobs due to funding cuts the Legal and Democratic Services (LDS) Department at Buckinghamshire County Council turned to TRIZ.
Download this case study to learn how using Oxford TRIZ, not only stopped Buckinghamshire County Council needing to outsource the LDS Department's work, saving their jobs, but helped the LDS to generate money for the Council.
The wonderful Kate Norton, our Business Manager, is running the London Marathon on 3 October 2021 to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK. She says: "By taking on the biggest challenge of my life - the London Marathon -I hope that the funds I can raise can help research into this area and ultimately find a life-changing treatment."
TRIZ teaches us that problems have more than one solution – and guides us to the strongest answers to difficult problems in the 4 TRIZ lists of conceptual solutions. When there is only one answer it is probably a puzzle or a murder mystery.
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