Effective communications skills for business (updated 2025)
What you'll learn
- Effective communications skills
- Presentation skills
- Speaking skills
- Public speaking
- Speaking
- Presentations
- Writing
- Sales
- Media production
- Presenting
- Teaching
- Lecturing
Requirements
- Have an interest in improving your communication skills
Description
Do you want to become the best business communicator that you can?
Do you want to effectively communicate with others both in person and online?
Do you want to develop as a person via communication?
This course looks at verbal and written communications including:
Accurately and successful verbal communications
Professional and meaningful written communications
Meeting important people
Being an effective presenter
Producing video media
Effective sales communications
Listening skills
Data protection and related legislation.
The course tutor, David Inman, is an experienced public and professional speaker, plus working as a Chartered Surveyor, he has to negotiate on complex business issues in the land, real estate and construction sectors. He is based in the UK but has delivered professional work across Europe, in North & South America, Asia and Australasia giving him a unique view on how to professional communicate with various levels of stakeholders.
David is a qualified lecturer, holding the Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector from the University of Central Lancashire and he also holds the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Professional Trainer Certificate.
Is regularly speaks in public to local surveying students and business groups.
He is a great believer in the more you communicate in public, they better you will become and that "practice makes progress".
Who this course is for:
- Anyone
- Business people
- Students
- Sales persons
- Teachers
- Lecturers
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 4,311 Reviews
- 60,468 Students
- 6 Courses
David Inman FRICS is an APC Chairman Assessor and practising Chartered Environmental Surveyor with DIEM Ltd.
Being an active APC Assessor Chairman and running an RICS Regulated firm, David gives you the inside, expert view of APC related topics.
As an educationalist he is a qualified lecturer holding a QCF Level 4 Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector from the University of Central Lancashire.
From a sustainability viewpoint, he has supported some of the best known UK brands, FTSE listed companies, specialist contractors, leading Universities and the public sector in implementing and operating ISO 14001 (environmental) and ISO 50001 (energy) management systems.
For ISO 50001 he has also implemented energy management systems on commercial properties in USA, Brazil, Germany, Belgium, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and Australia.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv). He has been involved in environmental, energy and quality management of land, property, construction and business throughout his career.
David has over 20 years experience in advising on environmental, energy and quality management, having worked for Carillion, AMEC and the Stobart Group in environmental, property management and engineering roles, before entering private practice in 2005 at DIEM Ltd.
He currently is a RICS APC Assessor Chairman plus APC auditor. As a member of the RICS Land and Natural Resources Professional Group Panel, he leads the profession is such matters. He has previously sat on RICS UK Education Standards Board, plus was Chairman of RICS Lancashire Local Association and RICS Lancashire Matrics.
He is a contributing author to RICS isurv for ISO 50001 and the Circular Economy and was co-author of the RICS Europe publication Sustainable construction: Realising the opportunities for built environment professionals.
In 2019 David was appointed a Director of the charity The Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust.
He is an external examiner at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Central Lancashire.