Overview

The Effective Communication Skills from Skillstudio is a one-day training course which will help you to express yourself more effectively, have more influence with your colleagues and appear more confident in front of others.

This is a highly practical and interactive course. You will be working both individually and in small groups on a variety of vocal and practical exercises, interactive discussions and role plays throughout the day.

Who is it for?

You'll leave the workshop with your own personal development plan and a toolkit of techniques to turn that plan into action. You will also leave the workshop with a buzz and with a great sense of achievement. You will also be able to:-

Speak with more confidence and listen carefully to build rapport
Analyse and utilise body language to your advantage
Steer conversations and influence people
Have the confidence to make more of an impact on your audience.
Enhance your professionalism at work

What will I learn?

Introduction
- Getting to know the group
- How do you see yourself?
- What makes a good communicator?

Use your voice more effectively
- Develop a greater awareness of your voice
- How to speak more confidently
- How to develop a more expressive tone of voice
- Understand how the voice conveys meaning
- How to use your voice to influence your listener

Generate confidence through body language
- How to appear more approachable and confident
- How to use the power of eye contact
- How to be more in control of your body language

Present yourself successfully
- How to create an immediate impression
- Use voice and body language to your advantage
- Give a short individual presentation with feedback

Styles of communication
- Identify your preferred style of communicating
- Become sensitive to other people's styles
- How to enhance your message

Learn the power of effective listening
- Understand the barriers to good listening
- How to Listen effectively to build rapport
- Questioning techniques to aid understanding

Review and action plan
- Identify key personal strengths
- Set targets for personal development
- Workshop review

How will I be assessed?

Ongoing constructive personal feedback from your trainer throughout the day.
Certificate of attendance on request.

Address

London - Fetter Lane, just off Fleet Street
Birmingham - Solihull
Manchester - Runger Lane, Manchester Airport
Glasgow - West George Street

Travel Information

Once your booking has been confirmed, joining instructions and travel information will be sent you about 2-3 weeks prior to the course date.

Additional Notes

During the workshop you'll receive a course manual that's full of practical tips and further information to help you consolidate what you've just gained from the course.

Each course comes with a FREE Followup Service by telephone or email . If you have any questions you'd like to ask about a forthcoming presentation simply email or call us and we'll do our best to help.

So we will continue to help you develop your communication skills even after the course has completed!