Learning Bites
Sharp, short communication sessions to inspire, upskill and spark change
The AI advantage: AI can draft your words and slides, but can’t ensure clarity, influence, or impact. We’ll teach you both — the human skills and the AI smarts.
- The AI advantage: AI can draft your words and slides, but can’t ensure clarity, influence, or impact. We’ll teach you both – the human skills and the AI smarts.
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
- influence
- presenting
- writing with AI.
Duration: 30–120 minutes (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 well for boards or committees is often a stretch for ‘number-brained’ technical people. Our short introduction to this essential executive skill will set the bar high for your papers, and help your team write first drafts that need less rework.
Who is this course for?
Anyone writing, reviewing or contributing to board and committee papers.
Learning outcomes
- Become aware of your blind spots.
- Learn the strategies professional writers use to boost engagement, even in board papers.
- Consistently draft clear, concise, commercially-minded papers.
- Avoid the key frustrations of boards and company secretaries.
Make first-class writing second nature
Habits dictate how you write, for good or bad. And writing well is a critical professional skill. So how do great writers connect and communicate seamlessly? How do they keep it short while conveying enough to make a decision, and one that’s in their favour? Unlock the writing habits that automatically give you impact.
Who is this course for?
All levels from graduate to C-Suite. This session is suited to anyone in business who hasn’t done a communication degree.
Learning outcomes
- Build 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).
- Learn the secrets of clear, concise writing.
- Boost your productivity.
You’re judged by your writing. Get a light sentence.
Getting ghosted? Your time-poor readers are on a waffle-free diet. If they’re reading your writing but missing your meaning, you need to cut it at work.
Who is this course for?
All levels. Well suited to technical teams communicating with non-technical audiences.
Learning outcomes
- Learn our five powerful RAZOR principles to cut the waffle but leave the cream.
- Understand how professional copywriters drive action.
- Trigger responses to your emails and requests.
- Apply the concepts in a range of writing tasks at work.
Two heads are better than one
AI has given you a second brain. But it’s useless unless you can drive it. The right prompts, guidance and coaching will help you harness AI to generate better drafts faster, then edit your work to resonate with humans.
Who is this course for?
Anyone editing, reviewing or writing at work.
Learning outcomes
- Understand how copywriters approach writing and their audience.
- Develop a kit of prompts that result in clear, useful text.
- Coach AI to adapt to different audiences and writing tasks/media.
- Rewrite prompts that deliver unique and professional text.
- Get a human in the loop: How to check for errors and ‘hallucinations’.
Timeless persuasion
Connect, convince and clarify at work using a modern take on Aristotle’s powerful persuasion principles.
Who is this course for?
Anyone leading action, managing stakeholders and projects at work.
Learning outcomes
- Build fast rapport, credibility and trust with a variety of personality types and seniority levels.
- Convince with persuasive arguments and a clear case.
- Overcome the ‘curse of cognitive load’.
- Be a clear, concise communicator who drives decisions and action.
Own the stage
It’s a fail when fine ideas fall flat. Learn what confident presenters do to get engage and get buy-in for their ideas and projects at work.
Who is this course for?
Anyone who wants to turn, ‘I have to present’ into ‘I get to present.’
Learning outcomes
- How to structure presentations ‘on the fly.’
- Learn to tame your nerves and exude confidence.
- Adapt your presentation style to different audiences and seniorities.
- Command attention in both virtual and face-to-face presentations.
No full day to spare? Let's still make it land.
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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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