Learning Bites
Sharp, short communication sessions to inspire, upskill and spark change
How Learning Bites work
Learning Bites are Magneto’s short-format communication sessions tailored to your team. They’re the fast way to inspire change, lift a whole team’s writing or presenting in one sitting, or add a sharp, useful session to a conference, team day or lunch-and-learn. Same expertise as our full-day programs, tighter format.
We tailor every Bite to your audience, industry and goals across:
- business writing
- board papers and executive writing
- influencing
- presenting
- working powerfully with AI.
Duration: 1-2 hours (you choose what suits)
Group size: Built for groups of 20–120+.
Ideal for: Team days, conferences, lunch-and-learns – when you don’t have a full day to spare.
Some Learning Bites are also available as recorded, self-paced sessions on our online learning platform.
What people say
Ideas to spark change
Writing for strategic decision making
Board papers. Not bored papers. Writing for boards or committees is often a stretch for ‘number-brained’ technical people. Our short introduction to this vital executive skill raises the bar for your papers. And your first drafts will return with fewer red marks.
Who is this course for?
Anyone writing, reviewing or contributing to board and committee papers.
Learning outcomes
- Find the blind spots in your executive writing.
- Learn the strategies professional writers use to reach time-poor, overloaded readers.
- Consistently draft clear, concise, commercially minded papers.
- Know when – and how – to inform or persuade.
- Avoid the mistakes that frustrate boards and company secretaries.
Timeless persuasion
About 2,500 years ago, Aristotle predicted how to best change your mind. His three appeals – pathos, logos and ethos – still decide whether your idea gets a yes. We call them Connect, Convince and Convert, a modern take on his powerful persuasion principles. And we apply them to your emails, meetings and presentations.
Who is this course for?
Anyone who leads projects, manages stakeholders or needs a yes at work.
Learning outcomes
- Build fast rapport, credibility and trust with a variety of personality types, stakeholder groups and seniority levels.
- Convince with persuasive arguments and a clear case.
- Overcome the curse of cognitive load.
- Convert a ‘maybe’ into a commitment.
- Be a clear, concise communicator who drives decisions and action.
Make first-class writing second nature
Habits dictate how you write, for good or bad. And now you write for an important new audience: the AI you brief. So how do great writers think? How do they keep it short while conveying enough to satisfy decision-makers? Build the habits that make clear, punchy writing automatic.
Who is this course for?
All levels from graduate to C-suite. Anyone in business who hasn’t done a communications degree.
Learning outcomes
- Earn your reputation as a clear thinker and concise writer.
- Understand and adapt to your audience.
- Get your message across to busy skim-readers (i.e. everyone).
- Brief AI as well as you’d brief a colleague.
- Boost your productivity by writing faster, with fewer rewrites.
Own the stage
It’s a fail when fantastic ideas fall flat. And now that anyone can use AI to produce a polished deck in minutes, what tips a decision is how you influence on your feet, in the moment. Learn what the most persuasive presenters do to win people over to their ideas and projects when the stakes are high.
Who is this course for?
Anyone who wants to turn, ‘I have to present’ into ‘I get to present.’
Learning outcomes
How to engage out of the gate – get attention and keep it.
Tame your nerves and exude confidence.
Adapt your presentation style to different audiences and seniorities.
Use practical strategies to develop yawn-free presentations.
Know what to change when you present online and face to face.
Take the ‘numb’ out of numbers
Data is the new oil. Mining it is one thing. ‘Selling’ it to a decision-maker is another. Learn how to ask the right questions, then frame a compelling story non-technical stakeholders will follow. Move beyond analysis – become the catalyst for change through stories and visual communication.
Who is this course for?
Technical teams presenting data to non-technical audiences.
Learning outcomes
Uncover the ‘so what?’ hiding in large datasets.
Simplify your message so non-technical audiences don’t get MEGO (‘My Eyes Glaze Over’).
Use data storytelling frameworks to take your audience on a worthwhile journey.
Apply the golden rules of visual communication to every chart and slide.
Get your geek on with real examples of ‘good to great’ data stories.
Judgement is the new black
Under pressure, your brain takes shortcuts. The danger is these shortcuts feel like certainty. You confidently make a decision … that blows up in your face. This session builds the habit of useful doubt. You’ll spot the thinking traps that come with being human, and the new ones that AI (a confident machine) walks you into.
Who is this course for?
Anyone making decisions, reviewing work or signing their name to it.
Learning outcomes
Understand the human biases that AI makes worse.
Slow your thinking and ask the questions that expose weak answers.
Test any claim for source and evidence in under a minute.
Give AI feedback that improves the next draft instead of starting from scratch.
Catch your own blind spots before you sign off.
Get more out of AI every day
AI can draft but it can’t decide what matters, read a room or carry a decision over the line. Those jobs are still yours. This session puts AI to work behind the three skills that drive your success: writing clearly, influencing stakeholders and presenting ideas that stick.
Who is this course for?
Anyone who wants to make the most of AI when they write, influence and present at work.
Learning outcomes
Understand how copywriters approach communication and adapt to their audience.
Build your own AI kit of personas and workflows for almost any task.
Use key communication frameworks to get powerful AI help when building influential business cases and presentations.
Learn to use AI as your structured thinking partner, editor and coach.
Get your team on the same AI page
Two of your people are months ahead. Two are pretending. No one is keeping track, so the same AI approach gets built from scratch every week and quality swings wildly. In this practical session, you’ll build the structured-thinking playbook for the tasks you and your team do on repeat.
Who is this course for?
Team leaders and their teams. Anyone who signs off on the work.
Learning outcomes
Write custom AI instructions for each role, so everyone on your team communicates to your company’s standard, tone and style.
Build a collection of workflows for your most common tasks.
Create bespoke quality checks that run before anything leaves your team.
Design new habits and a shared standard for AI drafting across your team.
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A sample of past keynotes
- AHRI conference, Adelaide (‘Bull Fighting at Work: How Bad Writing is Choking Your Company [& How to Fix It])
- IABC NSW SPARK event (‘Writing for Influence: Persuasion Science for Professional Communicators’)
- CPA Congress, Sydney (‘Writing Sweetly for the C-Suite’)
- Helloworld conference (‘The Perfect Pitch’)
- CEO Institute, Sydney (‘Influential Writing for Leaders’)
- CPA Women in Business
- Business Chicks presentations, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth (‘Writing to Influence’)
- Professional Speakers Australia, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
- Quay Appointments
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