Annual Report StreetwiZe • Mobile School 2019

update streetwize workshop ‘connect’
15/05/2019 • 15/12/2019
Lore De Muynck
Bram Doolaege
Kim Swyngedouw
Arnoud Raskin
(future) StreetwiZe clients
Leuven / Belgium
The ‘Connect’ workshop has been substantively
and structurally adjusted because there was
too little knowledge transfer in the previous
version and the definition of connecting was
not clearly coordinated.
Connecting is a crucial technique in street
work, but connecting is also essential in the
professional world. With some colleagues it
clicks in place faster than with others, making
an easy connection. Even if there is no click, it
is important to look for points of connection
with colleagues and customers with whom you
need to work together in order to do your job
well.
By investing in connecting you discover and
get to know each other’s skills as well as influence
your well-being and efficiency in a positive
way.
Empathy is a necessary factor for a good connection.
It is the sincerity and willingness to learn
from your conversation partner and to try to understand
him / her by discarding your own feelings
and experiences.
In the full day workshop we also pay sufficient
attention to the importance of trust, which also
counts as an important building block in a
connected relationship. The workshop offers a
number of techniques with which you can work
towards this connected relationship by focusing
on communication, in particular active listening
and body language, by making time to engage
in conversation with respect for each other’s
frame of reference and also by connecting creatively,
where you renew the contact with your
colleagues by introducing a number of new habits.
IMPACT
Promote well-being at work
The common thread in the workshop is learning
how to gradually promote your relationships
with team members with whom you work
closely from a functional relationship to a
connected relationship.
Optimize results
Get to know each other’s competences
Detailed Trainer’s manuals with literature and assignment
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