Alan Barker

Alan Barker has been an associate of Leornian since 2001.  He trains and coaches these skills. 

 

·         Creative thinking 

·         Persuading and influencing 

·         Innovation at work 

·         Problem solving 

·         Report writing 

·         Writing for results: letters and emails 

·         Thinking on your feet 

·         Agendas and minutes 

·         Meetings skills for chairs and participants 

·         Presentation skills 

·         Writing press releases and marketing copy 

 

Alan also designs and runs courses online.  He has been a learning consultant since 1988.  He holds an MA in English from the University of Cambridge.  Prior to entering the training field, Alan worked in the entertainment industry. 

 

Alan's fourteen books include Creativity for Managers, 30 Minutes to Brainstorm Great Ideas, Writing at Work, How to be a Better Decision Maker, Managing Meetings and How to be Better at Managing People.  Improve your Communication Skills was published by Kogan Page in 2001, and The Alchemy of Innovation by Spiro Press in 2002.  His books have been translated into Complex Chinese, Czech, Estonian, French, German, Indonesian, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. 

 

Alan has also written the content for three CD-roms. Writing for Change is published by Fahamu and IDRC Ottowa. Write Now! is published by Spiro Press. Just Write! - designed to support a distance-learning programme for NGOs - is published by Fahamu.