Samples


Below you’ll find samples of what we do – listen to the audio files and experience the discussions questions for users and managers.


We have samples on the following channels: Leadership | Gatehouse GeoPolitical Update | TIDES of change



Leadership

– by Keith Coats

This particular strategic input focusses on Leadership. It’s an audio input that’s 6:30 minutes long. Along with each input CommsInMotion supplies 2 lists of questions. Both are similar, but aimed at different audiences:

  • The first list is for the listener. It gives them an opportunity, through the questions, to reflect and integrate the information into their immediate world.
  • The second list is for a team of people in a management / coaching context. We encourage these types of users to get people in their team to listen to the strategic input and then make time (over coffee) to meet with them to discuss what they listened to. This allows the manager / coach to ensure the input has been listened to, but also creates meaningful conversation around the input with their colleague.

Audio Input

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Questions for the Listener

  1. Do you think Leadership can be learned?
  2. Where are the spaces you’ve most learned about leadership? What was happening?
  3. Are the current models you’ve encountered, around how leadership is learned (and taught), working?
  4. And if not, what are your thoughts on the best ways for us to transfer leadership ability?
  5. Based on your thoughts about how you best learn leadership, what could this organisation do to assist you with your leadership development?

Questions for the Manager / Coach

  1. Do you think Leadership can be learned?
  2. Where are the spaces you’ve most learned about leadership? What was happening?
  3. Are there models of leadership (leaders) in this organisation that you think we should be learning from? And if so who? And what is it about their leadership style that you like?
  4. And if so, what are your thoughts on the best ways for this to happen?
  5. Based on these thoughts, what could I or this organisation do to assist you with your leadership development?


Gatehouse: Geopolitical updates

– by Sir Jeremy Greenstock

This channel provides insights into geopolitical issues, with regular time-sensitive updates. These include issues such as: The future of energy; Islam and politics; Cyber Warfare; State of the EU; Food and water resources; Security (future flare points); 2012 – the year of elections (ongoing updates on US, Russia, France, China (handover), Spain, Germany, Turkey), and similar issues.

This particular strategic input is a geopolitical update for the week of 14 March 2011. It’s an audio input that’s 13 minutes long. Each CommsInMotion input also comes with a set of discussion starting questions. The questions for this audio input are:

  • The first list of questions is for the listener. It gives them an opportunity, through the questions, to reflect and integrate the information into their immediate world.
  • The second list is for a team of people in a management / coaching context. We encourage these types of users to get people in their team to listen to the strategic input and then make time (over coffee) to meet with them to discuss what they listened to. This allows the manager / coach to ensure the input has been listened to, but also creates meaningful conversation around the input with their colleague.

Audio Input

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Questions for the Listener

  1. Where has the Libya crisis moved to?
  2. What impact might the Japan earthquake have on global markets?
  3. How might the Fukushima nuclear incident change the energy generation question?
  4. In Brazil, how might their success hurt them?
  5. What does China’s spending on internal security tell us about their mindset?

Questions for the Manager / Coach

  1. Where has the Libya crisis moved to? (what does this tell us about multilateral agreement and co-operation?)
  2. What impact might the Japan earthquake have on global markets? (Given Christchurch and Japan, what other cities/markets are on fault lines?)
  3. How might the Fukushima nuclear incident change the energy generation question? (What does this mean for EU countries dependence on hydrocarbons?)
  4. In Brazil, how might their success hurt them? (what are the implications for currency wars?)
  5. What does China’s spending on internal security tell us about their mindset? (How might the PLA react?)

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The TIDES of Change

– by Dr Graeme Codrington

This channel provides inputs about five key disruptive forces that are changing the shape of the world of work. These are Technology, Institutional change, Demographics, the Environment and Shifting Social Values.

This sample is about how technology and social values are intersecting and changing how we relate to each other: “Relationship without investment in social media”. It’s an audio input that’s 9 minutes long. Each CommsInMotion input also comes with a set of discussion starting questions. The questions for this audio input are:

  • The first list of questions is for the listener. It gives them an opportunity, through the questions, to reflect and integrate the information into their immediate world.
  • The second list is for a team of people in a management / coaching context. We encourage these types of users to get people in their team to listen to the strategic input and then make time (over coffee) to meet with them to discuss what they listened to. This allows the manager / coach to ensure the input has been listened to, but also creates meaningful conversation around the input with their colleague.

Audio Input

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Questions for the Listener

  1. Which social media tools do you use? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube? What other ones do you use, and why?
  2. Have you ever unfriended someone, or a group? What made you do so? How did you feel when you did so?
  3. Would you use online match making software if you were looking for a partner? If not, why not, given what Graeme said about it?

Questions for the Manager / Coach

  1. Graeme said that social media channels (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube) can be used to create community? Do you agree?
  2. How could our company use social media more effectively to build communities? With our staff? And with clients?
  3. How can we invest in relationships with our customers so that we deliver the benefits of friendship to them?
  4. Can we use social technologies to assist us?

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