A four-hour interactive workshop on the basics, nuances, and insights of marketing.

The workshop includes:

• The principles of marketing
• The four P’s of marketing
• Building brands
• Marketing in the 21st century
• Marketing tools e.g.: PR, Communications, events, social media, direct marketing, advertising
• Making marketing accountable – marketing measurements

A four-hour interactive workshop on the how to develop, prepare for and deliver; pitches for winning business, selling ideas, negotiating business deals and presentations to stakeholders.

The workshop includes:

• Learn how the pitch process works, from preparation to success
• The psychology of pitching
• How personality influences the decision of the person you are pitching to
• Develop your own unique elevator pitch

Personal transformation is a dynamic process where individuals go through a variety of personal shifts as the move to becoming the best version of themselves. The process of making coffee bears a striking resemblance to the process of transformation. Each stage mirrors the phases of transformation.

Through a fun, interactive and awareness driven team–building activity, individuals, and teams get the opportunity to experience the coffee making process while becoming aware of; and embracing the new way of working.

These sessions can also be used for:

• Values roll-out
• Vision and strategy alignment and trickle down
• Personal and team effectiveness
• Productivity and performance
• Process efficiencies – connections and impacts
• The relationship between the personal brand and corporate brand
• Blended culture – appreciating and leveraging diversity
• Leadership – balancing contribution and building capacity

The UrbanAlchemy session takes place over 4-5 hours. The morning will include:
Sourcing of beans – the history, collection, selection and process of obtaining the bean.

Roasting

Participants will get to do a cupping (almost like a wine tasting) where they get to experience the aroma and flavor of the beans. They will then get to roast their own beans and experience dark, medium and light roasts. This phase focuses on the elements and factors that impact how the bean transforms.

Brewing

As part of this phase, participants will get to understand and experience how heat, water, grinding of the beans, in order to discover how the coffee bean is a vessel for flavour.

Consuming

In this final stage, participants will experience the best ways to consume coffee and what factors will influence taste, flavour, and longevity of coffee.

Often we are faced with career crossroads, where we are required to make choices, but we are uncertain about what we want or what choice will be the best for us. This workshop has been designed to support you in understanding your strengths, preferences, and talents as well as to assist you in gaining insight into your unique career needs. In gaining clarity on what will make you happy and bring you joy, you can begin to design your vision for your career as well as outline steps to take going forward.

The process is self-reflective in that you will complete a workbook prior to the workshop where you think deeply about your career experiences. The workshop will explore how you can go about building your career dreams as well as taking steps towards finding more meaning and fulfillment in your work.

Young adults are often under significant pressure to make a career choice. They see this choice as one decision that will affect their entire lives. There are more options and additional pressures than ever before and the numbers of students that drop out after the first year of university increases each year.  What will make a difference? Supporting and guiding the youth to know what is important to consider when making choices namely to understand themselves better and how to use this knowledge to align it with career decisions.

This workshop is all about understanding me, and what is important to me in a career. The individuals leave with more clarity around their career needs as well as tips on how to better align who they are with what they want to do.

The process is fun and interactive but also self-reflective, the individuals leave with deeper insight into themselves as well as tips on how to turn that understanding into action when making career choices.

This relationship seminar focuses on the factors that influence relationships. Both the relationship and individual has with themselves and the relationship they have with others.

This 2-hour seminar covers:

• The language of love
• What is this thing called relationships?
• Relationship health
• Limiting beliefs and meaningful connections
• How to choose a partner
• Modern dating
• The rules of relationships
• Communication skills
• Non-verbal communication and body language
• Making relationships work at home and at the workplace

Participants will obtain relationship skills and insights about themselves and how to build and maintain healthy relationships

A four-hour workshop covering the essentials of presentation skills designed to help presenters learn effective ways to present, engage your audience and deliver memorable presentations.

The seminar includes:

• The basics of PowerPoint
• The Do’s and Don’t’s of PowerPoint presentations
• Understanding your audience
• How to prepare for your presentation
• The use of voice – tone, language, pace, non-verbal communication

Everything in life is about a negotiation. Whether it’s in business or in a relationship, negotiation skills are critical for you to create and obtain your desired outcomes or goals.

In this three hour workshop, you will learn skills that have been tried and tested by the very best negotiators in the world. You will learn how to incorporate these skills into your interpersonal relationships.

The workshop covers:

• Building rapport
• The power of NO
• Moving beyond a win-win
• Negotiator personality types
• Planning for a negotiation
• How to maintain the relationship after the negotiation

The first 100 days in a new job can be quite challenging. With expectations abound from both the employee and employer, navigating the minefield of a new job or new role can cause unnecessary anxiety.

100 days coaching enables the successful transition of the employee into a new environment.

• A 100-day coaching plan aligned to employee and employer goals
• Understanding how your previous role and job impacts your new position
• Building horizontal and vertical relationships
• Identifying and delivering on memorable deliverables for your 1st three months
• Building and sustaining your personal brand
• Living and aligning your own values and that of the company