Benefits of Bright Pilots team skills training

Subject: Approval for training class 'Better meetings for collaboration and engagement'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to facilitate better meetings and there's an upcoming class called 'Better meetings for collaboration and engagement' by Bright Pilots, that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

This online class will help boost my skills in leading others in meetings, like strategy meetings, planning meetings, and offsites. Here's what it focuses on:

• Plan and run more interactive meetings, to get (and keep!) everyone engaged and giving their best
• Be more confident to know when and how to insert or remove structure and control, to keep your group ‘in the driver’s seat’, and in a state of collaborative flow
• Use a wide variety of conversational, digital and analog tools to help everyone contribute in an equal productive way, including several icebreaker and activity ideas
• Develop a healthier ‘meeting culture’ together, to make any time together more effective

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's an interactive and highly practical workshop that will give me the tools, frameworks and templates I can use for the benefit of (YOUR ORGANISATION'S NAME). It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online and costs $250.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/collaboration-engagement. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!

Subject: Approval for training class 'Better meetings for discovery and innovation'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to facilitate better meetings and there's an upcoming class called 'Better meetings for discovery and innovation' by Bright Pilots that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

This online class will help boost my skills in leading others in meetings to be more creative. Here's what it focuses on:

• Run more effective discovery and innovation meetings, like discovery workshops, design sprints and brainstorming meetings
• Set up innovation meetings for success with techniques to get the right people in the room, and to set everyone’s expectations accurately
• Tackle tricky situations that can happen in discovery and innovation meetings
• Help our groups develop their own creative skills, with a variety of templates and activities

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's an interactive and highly practical workshop that will give me the tools, frameworks and templates I can use for the benefit of (YOUR ORGANISATION'S NAME). It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online and costs $250.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/discovery-innovation. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!

Subject: Approval for training class 'Better meetings for alignment and decisions'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to facilitate better meetings and there's an upcoming class called 'Better meetings for alignment and decisions' by Bright Pilots that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

Here's what it focuses on:

• Set up the ‘decision’ parts of meetings for success with techniques involving roles and responsibilities, expectations, and definitions of success
• Learn a proven framework for group-based alignment and decisions to help groups get to agreement and action, from the simple ones to the more involved ones
• Deal with tricky situations and behaviours that come up whenever a group tries to make a decision together
• Develop a healthier ‘decision culture’ together, with better patterns of alignment, decision, action, and accountability

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's an interactive and highly practical workshop that will give me the tools, frameworks and templates I can use for the benefit of (YOUR ORGANISATION'S NAME). It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online and costs $250.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/alignment-decisions. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!

Subject: Approval for training class 'Intrapreneurship: Innovating in Big Complex Organisations'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to improve my stakeholder management and project implementation skills, and there's an upcoming class called 'Intrapreneurship: Innovating in Big Complex Organisations' by Bright Pilots that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

This online class will also help me help the whole team grow our innovation culture together. Here's what it focuses on:

• Understanding the root causes behind why it can be hard to innovate in most large organisations
• Helping us to get interest and traction for our ideas (yes they're brilliant, but it's not enough!)
• Effective approaches to improving 'innovation culture' in our organisation

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's an interactive and highly practical workshop that will give me the tools, frameworks and templates I can use for the benefit of (YOUR ORGANISATION'S NAME). It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online and costs $250.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/intrapreneurship. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!

Subject: Approval for training class 'Problem framing for product and service teams'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to help our team frame up customer problems and design challenges better, and there's an upcoming class called 'Problem framing for product and service teams' by Bright Pilots that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

This online class will help boost my skills in transforming product strategy and customer research into more insights that we can all use to improve our products and services. It will also help me lead meetings where we all need to get a shared clear understanding of intent, what problem we're trying to solve, and what opportunity to go after. Here's what it focuses on:

• Planning and running better problem framing discussions, for kick-off meetings, sprint planning sessions, offsites, design sprints, or brainstorming sessions (in-person, online, or hybrid)
• Identifying and warding off biases and other tricky situations
• Creating more actionable, compelling problem statements that our team and stakeholders – and customers – can really get behind

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's an interactive and highly practical workshop that will give me the tools, frameworks and templates I can use for the benefit of (YOUR ORGANISATION'S NAME). It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online and costs $250.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/problem-framing. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!

Subject: Approval for training class 'Drawing for product and service teams'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to build my skills in visualising ideas and concepts better, and there's an upcoming class called 'Drawing for product and service teams' by Bright Pilots that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

Drawing is such an effective thinking and communication technique, which will benefit not only my own work, but how I work across our team. Here's what it focuses on:

• Draw whatever objects, figures and scenes I need, with 'icon-style' drawing, '5Ws' context-setting, and storyboarding.
• Be more creative, and share more of my ideas more rapidly, clearly and confidently with the team
• Frame problems, insights, systems and solutions visually, to inform and persuade stakeholders better

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's a highly interactive workshop where I'll be drawing a lot, and applying what I learn to the sorts of projects I'm invovled in. It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online, and costs $190.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/drawing-product-service-teams. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!

Subject: Approval for training class 'Drawing for business and strategy'?

Hi (YOUR MANAGER'S NAME),

I would like to build my skills in visualising ideas and concepts better, and there's an upcoming class called 'Drawing for business and strategy' by Bright Pilots that will help me do this. I am writing to request your approval to register.

Drawing is such an effective thinking and communication technique, which will benefit not only my own work, but how I work across our team. Here's what it focuses on:

• Draw simple patterns and structures to help clarify the essentials of business communication, such as strategy, plans, audiences, opportunities, and solutions
• Use visual metaphor in powerful ways to frame (and reframe) problems, insights and solutions, for influence and action
• Visualise intangible and conceptual elements like systems, processes, decision factors, and stakeholder relationships

This isn't a theoretical lecture - it's a highly interactive workshop where I'll be drawing a lot, and applying what I learn to the sorts of projects I'm invovled in. It runs for 2 hours, is hosted in a small group online, and costs $190.

You can find out more here: https://brightpilots.com/classes/drawing-business-strategy. Can I get this expense approved, so I can go ahead and register?

Thank you,
(YOUR NAME)

P.S. If you would like to join me I'm sure it would be of benefit to you, too!