Communicating for Results

Communicate Your Message Clearly and Effectively…Every Time!

The ability to communicate effectively at work and in life is perhaps the most critical skill for anyone. Those who have demonstrated an ability to effectively communicate are more likely to receive promotions and job offers.

 Effective communication allows you to use all the other skills you have to the fullest. Your success in motivating, delegating, organizing, solving problems and obtaining information depends heavily on your ability to communicate with others.

At this workshop you’ll learn how to influence and inform through the use of real life examples, group discussions, role plays and interactive hands-on exercises.

Learning outcomes

• Impact and influence all conversations you have through awareness and intention
• Understand your strengths in communication and maximize them to your benefit
• Be prepared to communicate with anyone in any situation
• Deliver effective feedback even in stressful situations
• Communicate professionally with all your communication tools – guarantee your effectiveness

Workshop topics

Establishing the Importance of Communication Skills

• Are you sure you’re being understood?
• Are you being clear?
• What about when you disagree?

 Basic Communication Principles

• Models of communication
• Factors affecting communication
• Who says what to whom? (Sender, receiver, message and response)
• Preparing your message to be sent
• ‘The Medium is the Message’ – which do you choose?
• Communicating in person
• Communicating over the phone
• Communicating via e-mail

 HRDQ: What’s my Communicating Style?

• Learn to identify and adapt to different communication styles
• Identify your communication strengths and areas of improvement

 Communication Challenges

• Barriers to effective communication
• Communication breakdowns
• How to deal with receiver reactions
• Aggressive, passive and assertive
• How to be assertive to get your message across

 Body Language

• What does your body language say about you?
• Learn how subtle changes can help you appear more confident and assertive and inspire more respect
• Learn how to avoid creating difficult situations and reactions by becoming more self-aware

 Active Listening – The Critical Half of Communication

• Active Listening Self-Assessment
• Intentional Listening and Responding
• Using Empathy
• Understanding, then being understood
• Using probing questions
• Clarifying, reflecting, paraphrasing, responding

 Communicating in Email

• The W.I.I.F.M Factor
• Learn one tool to help you create clear and complete messages, get a faster response rate, prioritize messaging, save composition time and help avoid clogging up your inbox unnecessarily

 Applying Communication Skills when Giving Feedback

• Guidelines for giving and receiving feedback
• Feedback models