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If communication is truly the root cause of many challenges in the workplace, then organizational development programs needs to be language-focused.

orgLEARN Linguistic training not only explains how language works systematically in the mind, and across groups in the workplace, but also teaches your team a range of specific words, phrases, and strategies to implement as solutions to the linguistic challenges they face in their own areas of work.

Online Learning

Language and Communication in the Boardroom: Linguistic Strategies for Making your Board Seat Count

Written by linguists and reviewed by nurses, Language and Communication in the Boardroom takes a deep-dive into the nuances of boardroom communication and teaches participants how to leverage linguistic strategies to maximize their impact on the board. This course has been intentionally designed for all professionals who are interested in board service, or who are already serving as board members — there is no requirement to have a nursing or healthcare background to benefit from this course.

$195 individual rate

0.5 CEU’s

1 Unique Microcredential

SIX LEARNING MODULES $195

    • Define Professional Identity in Nursing.

    • Examine the intersectionality of identity construction in linguistics, nursing, and board membership.

    • Integrate the following modules in this course into Professional Identity in Nursing.

    • Define and understand linguistics, communities of practice, and framing.

    • Reframe language as a technology.

    • Apply linguistics, communities of practice, and the language-as-a-technology reframe to the boardroom.

    • Understand the linguistic concept of jargon. 

    • Explore the unique language patterns that characterize boardroom conversations.

    • Examine the ways in which board jargon can be a linguistic barrier for participation.

    • Develop linguistic strategies for collaborative talk to overcome the challenges of jargon.

    • Apply the two functions of language (information transfer and identity signaling) to miscommunications.

    • Examine the linguistic structure of assumptions and stereotypes.

    • Develop linguistic strategies for overcoming both miscommunications and false assumptions as a board memb

    • Explore how individuals in the boardroom approach advocacy, both for themselves and others. 

    • Learn specific language patterns that create inclusive environments to support advocates and dismantle biased systems.

    • Integrate advocacy language patterns into effective “elevator speeches” for raising support as a board member.

    • Explore types of board governance models and board roles

    • Observe, examine, and integrate the three functions of Leadership Language in the boardroom: 

      • Cultivating relationships (linguistic features of politeness)

      • Making decisions (linguistic features of power)

      • Achieving outcomes (balancing linguistic power and politeness)

Full-Length Programs

Memra's full-length, customizable programs are designed for executive teams, leaders, and boards of directors. Each program includes 1 to 2 Keynote-style interactive presentations, activity guides for practicing new language patterns during 1:1 meetings, and a discount for individual linguistic analysis and language strategy development for individual team members who want to go deeper.

Combinations Packages strategically link programs together to create series-style organizational development.

Choose from 4 full-length programs

1-3 hours each

Combination packages available

FULL-LENGTH PROGRAMS $2,500 - $4,500

  • Optimizing Workplace Communication for People Managers

    • Learn how language shapes identity, builds trust, and facilitates relationships.

    • Develop conversational strategies for disagreement, complaining, collaboration, and more.

  • Optimizing Workplace Communication to Enhance Belonging

    - Learn how language shapes identity, builds trust, and facilitates relationships.

    - Develop conversational strategies for inclusive language and advocacy.

  • Optimizing Workplace Communication for Leadership

    - Learn how language shapes identity, builds trust, and facilitates relationships.

    - Develop conversational strategies for advocacy and leadership.

  • Optimizing Communication to Increase Emotional Intelligence

    - Learn how language shapes identity, builds trust, and facilitates relationships.

    - Develop conversational strategies for emotional regulation and disagreement.

COMBINATION PACKAGES $8,000 - $12,000

    • Language & Management Program

    • Language & Power Program

    • Language & Belonging Program

    • Language & Feelings Program

    • Language & Power Program

    • Language & Management Program

    • Language & Power Program

    • Language & Belonging Program

    • Language & Feelings Program

Custom Training

Design a custom learning experience by mixing and matching Memra’s Short Learning Modules. 10-30 min long each.

Perfect for combining with team building days, leadership retreats, and organizational book clubs, these short modules are a great way to see what language-focused training is like.

10 short learning modules

10-20 minutes each

Mix and match

SHORT LEARNING MODULES $800 - $1200/module

  • Learning Objective: Participants learn how to solve pervasive communication challenges by reframing language as a technology.

  • Learning Objective: Participants learn how to have more productive meetings by exploring the three functions of meetings and their linguistic structure: Planning (future), Reporting (past), and Problem-Solving (present).

  • Learning Objective: Participants learn how to identify and mitigate the three linguistic features of conflict talk: Normal sentence structure while disagreeing (reversing syntactic preference structure), Stealing and repeating phrases (co-opted language), and Expressing strong feelings (markers of subjective stance).

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn (1) how to define collaboration based on different linguistic patterns, (2) the parts of collaboration that tend to cause breakdown and miscommunication, and (3) strategies for optimizing team collaboration.

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn how leaders actually lead in real time be examining the three functions of leadership language: Cultivating Relationships (interpersonal communication; linguistic features of politeness), Making Decisions (authoritative communication; linguistic features of power), and achieving outcomes (the interaction between interpersonal and authoritative communication; balancing power and politeness).

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn how to use the Four Strategies for Successful Self-Advocacy: Make it about yourSELF, not the company, Minimize the ask, Present one “easy yes” with one “difficult yes”, Appeal to a higher authority.

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn how humans use language to reveal who they are to one another (subconsciously signaling vs consciously creating), and often causes miscommunications in the workplace.

  • We know language is central to inclusivity, but rarely do we make it beyond the “Don’t Say List” when talking about what Inclusive Language actually IS. In this session, participants learn 6 principles of Inclusive Language developed by linguists to apply to ANY conversation in any context.

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn about different types of English (Southern English, African American Vernacular English, English, gendered language, etc ), to explore how norms of “language professionalism” can create feelings of being excluded, and what a team can do to foster a truly inclusive working environment.

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn why feelings are a good and important part of workplace communication. A linguistic perspective teaches us that instead of being psychic states that control us, feelings are a valuable evolutionary tool for making complex evaluations, which can be leveraged for success in the workplace.

  • Learning Objective: Participants will learn how to implement abstract “emotional intelligence” linguistically; essentially learning how to be emotionally intelligent through team communication with the 3 key linguistic strategies that encode emotional intelligence.

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