Hey, I’m Aden Date
Unboring Teamwork Trainer
I help scientific and technical teams discover their collective intelligence
Engaging communication and collaboration training informed by cognitive science (not management fads)
For all teams great and small
Prevent Death By PowerPoint
We want our people to be more courageous, but our training is a heap of overly cautious blah. To embrace uncertainty, communicate across difference, and develop wild solutions to wicked problems, we need the courage to take smart risks. We need to expand our comfort zone.
Cognitive science shows us that training can’t afford to be boring. Behaviour shifts when people are engaged, delighted, and challenged (yes, even introverts and sceptics). We don’t need information, we need transformation.
It’s time to close our laptops, get off our butts, delete the PowerPoint and burn the Post-Its.
Break boredom and bring work to life (and life to work)
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Break boredom and bring work to life (and life to work) ◉
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More Energy
More laughs, more learning, and more energy. Delight in work and unleash joy and insight for your team. No pumped-up jams, forced fun or motivational speakers needed.
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More Creativity
Creativity happens when we’re playful, energised and connected to our colleagues. Create space for the wisdom of your team to emerge spontaneously.
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More Leadership
Say goodbye to micro-management. Replace caution and permission-seeking with initiative and collaboration. Be nice to have some strategic headspace, eh?
“As a sceptic, I was blown away by Aden’s ability to create rapport, connection, and belly laughs from the group within minutes. His facilitation abilities are top-notch, and even more impressive once you realise the research-backed methods behind the fun.”
Shani Wende, L&D Specialist
Three ways we can work together
Experience
One-off workshops
Experience three years of culture change in a single day. Open the space for creative courage and unearth sticky behaviours with a half-day workshop.
Extend
Three-month program
Reclaim strategic headspace by building leadership behaviours in the middle. Reduce escalation, caution, and permission seeking so your team can move quickly and joyfully.
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Nine-month program
Create the conditions that make collaboration fast, easy, and fun. We’ll work with a major cross-functional business issue (not abstract theory) and make a measurable impact together, guaranteed.
CASE STUDY
Expanding Comfort Zones at Curtin University
How Alan’s high-performing team adapted to an uncertain future
“This workshop really pushed some of them. It helped us understand how we knit together. We learned about how to deal with the unknown, because on the day, you threw us into the unknown and we dealt with it as a group.” - Alan
Dr. Alan McAlpine manages the Curtin Student Success team. He has smart, committed employes with a strong vision and clear direction… but he wasn’t seeing his team perform to the top of their intelligence.
Alan’s hard work helped build a more autonomous, capable and impactful team… all while having plenty of fun along the way.
