Workshop

Brilliant leaders bring out the brilliance in others.

TRANSFORMING MEETINGS

1-DAY WORKSHOP

A one-day in-house program for anyone who wants to transform the experience and effectiveness of the meetings they chair, design, facilitate or attend.

This training is also valuable for mentors and coaches.

The program’s experiential design means that whilst learning how to create and sustain a Thinking Environment™, participants are also thinking about the topics they most need to progress.

Full-day workshop $5000 + GST

Includes:

  • Planning meeting (45 mins over Zoom)

  • Pre-work resources

  • Full-day Transforming Meetings Workshop (in-person at your office)

  • Printed Transforming Meetings Workbooks

  • Bonus additional resources

  • Debrief meeting (45 mins over Zoom)

  • 4 people minimum (max 8 people) 

 Plus travel costs if outside Melbourne

What if we have less than 4 people who need the training?

The minimum cost for the workshop is $2,400+ GST. If you have less than 4 people, we can still go ahead. Book a no-strings-attached call with me to explore possibilities. 

What if we have more than 8 people who need the training??

4-8 is the optimal size for this training, however I am happy to be a little flexible. Additional sessions are available for an additional (discounted) investment. I will do my best to work within your available budget. Book a no-strings-attached call with me to explore possibilities. 

Bringing out the best in others means knowing how to ignite their best thinking.

We spend most of our working lives in meetings. And the problem with most meetings is that fail to ignite fresh thinking - and the very time we need it most.

Skillfully designing and leading meetings to activate human brilliance is an essential capability for all leaders today.

This program gives leaders the capabilities to generate fresh, break-through thinking in themselves and others.

The skills taught are applicable to both online and in-person meetings. They work wonders in one-on-ones, leadership meetings and off-sites.

Transforming the way we gather and listen has the potential to transform our organisations.

About me

My name is Cassandra Goodman, but please call me Cassie. I'm an accredited Thinking Environment™ Trainer and Facilitator.

I empower leaders and teams to activate more of their innate brilliance.

I have two decades of senior leadership experience, including being the Global Director of Employee Experience at a Bupa where I was accountable for activating Bupa’s purpose ‘Longer, Healthier, Happier Lives’ for their 86,000 employees around the world.  

What People Are Saying

Cassie is a talented facilitator who brings a winning combination of skill, purpose and passion to those she serves. I found her 1-day Transforming Meetings Training super valuable. Not only will it help improve your meetings, team outcomes and interpersonal dynamics; the valuable set of techniques Cassie teaches will help you get the most out of any interaction with others.”

Teresa Engelhard, Founder and CEO

“I left this training with was so much more than I ever imagined. I discovered a practice of communication that fosters creativity, collaboration, and learning. Somewhere on the journey we have lost our courage and ability to think for ourselves because no-one is truly listening. I will continue to refine and perfect what I have learnt and it will make me an even better leader for many years to come."

Alex Nguyen

"Thank you for the most incredibly impactful training, I am so very grateful for everything I learned. I can't recommend this training highly enough!"

Vanessa Banford

What People Are Saying

"It was great to hear from a range of perspectives, learn about the power of questions and be reminded of the importance of calm, attention and space."

jon Stapelton, Managing Director

Thanks to Cassie's support and the skills she brings in creating a Thinking Environment for me, I have increased my capacity to process challenges in a healthy way and make better decisions."

Prisca Ongonga-Daehn

"Cassie has a unique way of knocking down mental blocks and getting me to see things differently, really pushing me to be my best. Cassie creates a space where my ideas can run wild, boosting my ability to lead and innovate."

Tina Li

What People Are Saying

“It was so valuable to learn about the ten components of the Thinking Environment. It was great to be able to practice chairing a meeting using the methodology - this was truly a fantastic learning experience Cassie - thank you!”

Samantha Solomons

"It was a brilliant session. Practical, engaging and inspirational learning. I am excited to apply what I learnt."

Kate Russell

Hungry for fresh thinking? 

Hi there, I'm Cassandra Goodman.

I'm a former global executive turned accredited Thinking Environment™ Trainer and Facilitator.

I love empowering people to activate their own brilliance - and the brilliance of those around them.

Do your meetings activate and amplify the brilliance of your people - or dull and diminish it? 

The Thinking Environment is both a framework you can learn, and a way of being you can practice.

t's time to reimagine the way we meet

Do any of these sound familiar?

“We're not getting to the heart of the challenges we're navigating... so we're not making any real progress.”

“Our meetings are always dominated by the same people, we rarely hear from everyone.”

"We're really just skimming the surface of the true potential of the team."

"There is so much more I want to share, and think through in my one-on-one meetings - but we're always so rushed."

“We talk about psychological safety, but really, there's never an opportunity to share what I really think.”

“I know that I am not getting the best from my people, but I don't know where to start."

"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achievedits full potential, that word would be: 'meetings'." ”

— Dave Barry

LISTENING TO IGNITE

Leaders must cultivate the conditions that allow people to do their best thinking - with rigour, imagination, courage and grace. 

By learning and ‘being’ the  components of a Thinking Environment™ you ignite the finest, freshest thinking in others.

Being able to create a Thinking Environment is an essential capability for all leaders today.

The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking."

Nancy Kline

You'll learn how to:

  • Shorten meetings and produce better results.

  • Apply the components of a Thinking Environment™ to the step-by-step running of meetings.

  • Craft agendas that create the conditions for break-through conversations

  • Create impressive levels of engagement of each person in the meeting, to generate their finest thinking.

  • Ensure robust, un-interruptive, creative conversation to deliver decision-making of exceptional quality.

Our Approach

Discover & Design

Together, we’ll explore your current context and challenges to co-design a bespoke program. Our core program will focus on solving a real organisational problem. We’ll work with you to articulate the risks and the return on investment.

Deliver & Refine

In this next phase, you’ll be able to choose from a range of modules. These may include; Critical Thinking in Age of AI, Keeping People Moving Forward Through Change, Reimagining Work for Improved Productivity.

Embed & Evolve

Every program is different. We’ll work as an extension of your team to stay flexible and responsive to ensure you get the return on your investment. This may include scanning of the horizon for new challenges and opportunities.

“The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking”

— Nancy Kline

Thinking Afresh

Our team are all accredited in The Thinking Environment®, a proven framework for empowering humans to think at their very best, based on the work and research of Nancy Kline.

Our approach to coaching, training and facilitation is grounded in the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment®.

The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment®

SOURCE: Nancy Kline, Time to Think (adapted)

  • Listening without interruption and with interest in where the person will go next in their thinking

  • Regarding each other as thinking peers, giving equal time to think

  • Discarding internal urgency

  • Noticing what is good and saying it.

  • Giving courage to go to the unexplored edge of thinking by ceasing competition as thinkers

  • Welcoming the release of emotion

  • Supplying essential facts.

  • Committing to freedom from untrue assumptions driving prejudice.

  • Producing a physical environment – the room, the listener, your body – that says, ‘You matter’

  • Asking the sorts of questions that illuminate new possibilities

“I need to reduce noise, and I need to get the balance right between being busy, being open to new ideas, and navigating through.”

Jacqui Feeney, CEO, Screen Queensland

“At precisely the moment organisations need more critical and analytical capability, sense-making, judgement and questioning skills are at risk of erosion."

AHRI Magazine

"I’m unlearning all the time. Because I believe that you've got to ask yourself every day, whether the way we're doing things today is still the best, most effective, creative, interesting way to do it. The best way to keep yourself interested and relevant and productive is to always be prepared to look at the new way of doing something."

The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull AC

"When technology becomes the medium for discourse it can lead to a less creative, less enhancing dialogue. People still need to be in the same room, iteratively taking risks with conversation to enable true creativity."

Robert Thomson, Chief Executive, News Corp

“The future won’t only be shaped by new ideas. It will be shaped by the quality of the relationships we are able to create. Everywhere I look, I see people longing for spaces where they can breathe, speak honestly, listen deeply, and stay connected even when life becomes difficult. Those spaces don’t happen by accident. They are created by people who have learned how to hold them."

Kosha Joubert, CEO, Pocket Project