Event: How to Influence Decision Makers to Take up Research Course

Venue: Indepth Research Services, Mombasa, Kenya

Event Date: 27th – 28th November 2017.

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INTRODUCTION
The art of presenting your ideas, action points or recommendations to an audience in a simple way within a short amount of time is known as “pitching”. It’s an important skill to have – if you can’t explain your opinion, your recommendation or your work to an important audience then how are you going to make any difference or get anyone to take up your research? Let’s stop missing opportunities to get our key messages into the public domain and into decision makers’ minds.

DURATION
2 days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is aimed at CEOs, directors and senior managers of public agencies, Programme and project leaders, programme officers, managers, senior heads of research organizations, researcher and other humanitarian and development agencies staff whose roles involve producing proposals and reports for their organization.

OBJECTIVES
• Participants will be able to prepare an effective pitch.
• Participants will be able to frame/tailor a message for different audiences.
• Participants will be able to present an idea/opinion/message clearly through identifying and communicating a clear ‘ask’.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED
• Effectively Influencing Decision-Makers.
• Emotion and decision making.
• Factors that influence Decision Making
• How you can prepare and deliver a “pitch” to reach specific target audiences.
• How to communicate research, key messages, and recommendations more effectively, short message about your work and know exactly what they are asking of their listener.
• Interactive introduction and making the case for always having a clear message in your pocket and some easy Dos and Don’ts
• Practical sessions on individual pitches and feedback from listeners and facilitators.
• The impact of research on decision-making by practitioners and managers
• Case studies from country based examples.
• There will also be time for a re-pitch for those who want to incorporate feedback they received

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Tailor-Made Training
This training can also be customized for your institution upon request to a minimum of 4 participants. You can have it delivered in our training center or at a convenient location.

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