Improving your Communication Strategies

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Who Would Benefit from this course

All levels of employees who want to understand all the fascinating aspects of communication, and how to improve and enhance their own personal style of communication.  You will learn essential inter-personal skills, how to really listen effectively to people, and then how to communicate convincingly and effectively.

Course Objectives

  • Understand what communication is.
  • Identify ways that communication can happen
  • Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them
  • Develop your non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills.
  • Use the STAR method to speak on the spot.
  • Listen actively and effectively.
  • Ask good questions
  • Use appreciative inquiry as a communication tool
  • Adeptly converse and network with others
  • Identify and mitigate precipitating factors
  • Establish common ground with others
  • Learn to use "I" messages.

Benefit for You

You will learn all the essential elements involved in good communication.  Uncover the various barriers to good communication.  Then go on to discover the different levels of conversation.  See the power of good questions, and utilising body language to complement your verbal messages.  Your work relationships with colleagues and clients will be enhanced, and your productivity greatly increased.

Benefit for Your Company

Your employee will learn the powerful principles of good communication, and be led on a journey to enhancing and deepening their own personal communication style.  They will find greater sensitivity and awareness in their communications, and this leads to greater harmony in work relationships, and greater productivity.  Business is about relationships, and relationships are about good communications.

Course Duration

2 day Level 1 course.

Programme Content

  • What is Communication?
  • How Do We Communicate?
  • Other Factors in Communication
  • Understanding Communication Barriers
  • An Overview of Common Barriers:  Language Barriers, Cultural Barriers,
    Differences in Time and Place.
  • Paraverbal Communication Skills
  • The Power of Pitch
  • The Truth about Tone
  • The Strength of Speed
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Understanding the Mehrabian Study
  • All About Body Language
  • Interpreting Gestures
  • Speaking Like a STAR,  15,  S = Situation,  15,  T = Task,  15, A = Action,  15, R = Result
  • Listening Skills
  • Seven Ways to Listen Better Today
  • Understanding Active Listening
  • Sending Good Signals to Others
  • Asking Good Questions
  • Open Questions
  • Closed Questions
  • Probing Questions
  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • The Purpose of AI
  • The Four Stages
  • Examples and Case Studies
  • Mastering the Art of Conversation
  • Level One: Discussing General Topics
  • Level Two: Sharing Ideas and Perspectives
  • Level Three: Sharing Personal Experiences
  • Our Top Networking Tips
  • Advanced Communication Skills
  • Understanding Precipitating Factors
  • Establishing Common Ground
  • Using ā€œIā€ Messages