How to Become a Better Communicator

Course Description

How to Become a Better Communicator course is offered multiple times in a variety of locations and training topics.

What you will learn

Overview

Excellent interpersonal communication skills are the most potent career and personal skills you can possess. Learn how to become a better communicator and how to communicate effectively and confidently with these practical and proven techniques and skills that are essential not only for managers, supervisors and team leaders, but for anyone at any level looking for better relationships, greater success and more respect!

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Program time: 3 hours

Session 1: Rapport and Credibility: Increasing Your Impact and Influence

Outline how to use the first four minutes to make a dynamite impression on anyone you meet.

Develop tactics to ensure your words and actions tell others you’re a credible, reliable professional.

Describe how to “break the ice” and get a good conversation going, even with a stranger.

Outline the steps you can take to increase the level of trust, cooperation and support from your co-workers, your employees and your boss.

Assess how you measure up with the 15 vital interpersonal skills shared by influential people.

Realize why it really does matter whether or not people like you — and how to make it happen.

Session 2: Clear and Assertive Communication Skills

Discover how to think on your feet when challenged.

List the nine steps of assertive communication and three easy-to-use assertive listening techniques.

Learn how to effectively handle put-downs, slurs and insults and positive techniques for delivering constructive feedback.

Detail how to accept and learn from negative feedback and how to handle criticism in front of others.

Describe the seven most difficult personality types and how to deal with each.

Outline the six basic steps for dealing with all negative behavior.

Understand how your thinking style affects your ability to handle difficult people.

Session 3: Polishing Your Image and Professionalism

Describe how to correctly “set the stage” for every interaction and avoid the most common blunders that create a negative impression.

Identify the single biggest factor that determines whether or not people take you seriously and three ways you can demonstrate that you’re a positive and self-confident professional.

Practice the six basic rules of business etiquette and recognize and eliminate unconscious sexism from your speaking and writing.

Understand the proper way to do business introductions and other important etiquette tips to remember.

Course: How to Become a Better Communicator

$149.00

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Cancelation Policy

If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.