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Another short course from the Te Pūkenga Open Skills Training Commons.

Communicating for success

1. Overview

2. Video signpost

3. What are you saying to whom and how?

4. Nature’s way is highly effective

5. Start – Communicating challenge

6. Tasks – Communicating challenge

7. Outputs – Communicating challenge

Nature’s way is highly effective

Hill shapes

How does nature communicate? It considers proximity, relevance, context, and other things.

Reading

Read the Executive Summary and the 14 guidelines (pages iv – x) of this 2010 thesis Nature Inspired Guidelines to Effectively Communicate Sustainability Messages (Altmann, AJ., Givon, M., & Shand, HA.) and think about how you might apply these guidelines to your communication project.

Learning journal activity

Reflect on the following in your journal
- Who might your audience be?
- What do you need them to understand?
- How might you get your message across in a way that could inspire action or change?
- How relevant are the 14 nature inspired guidelines for you and your chosen work?

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