
Explore the categories of communication: spoken, nonverbal, written, and visualizations, and how senders and receivers encode, transmit, decode, and provide feedback across channels to reduce misunderstandings.
Explore interpersonal communication as a two-way process of exchanging verbal and nonverbal messages, including tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures, and body language, within varying social contexts and channels.
Learn how interpersonal communication shapes understanding through verbal and nonverbal cues, context, timing, and how stereotypes and preconceptions can lead to misunderstandings.
Identify barriers to effective communication, including jargon, language differences, emotional and psychological barriers, distractions, and cultural and physical obstacles, and use feedback and active listening to ensure understanding.
learn to give and receive feedback by focusing on behavior, describing its effects on you, and using timely, specific, emotionally intelligent listening and reflection.
Improve communication by practicing listening, clarification, reflection, and empathy to read nonverbal cues, seek input, and communicate with clarity, respect, and inclusion.
Develop interview skills by preparing thoroughly through researching the organization and job fit, crafting concrete examples aligned to the person specification, and handling competency-based questions, icebreakers, and presentations with confidence.
Prepare thoroughly for telephone interviews by researching the company and its product or service, ready examples of your skills; choose a quiet location, sound professional, manage technology, and follow up.
Prepare with a detailed job description and panel scoring to avoid bias. Conduct structured interviews with rapport, varied questions, and practical tests, then verify with references.
Explore the ladder of inference, how beliefs loop data selection into quick, biased conclusions, and practice testing data with clarifying questions to improve listening and interviewing skills.
Become a champion communicator: learn the ten principles of listening, from eye contact and attention to open-mindedness, empathy, questions, feedback, and reading nonverbal cues to improve relationships and work.
Explore discriminative and comprehensive listening foundations, and learn how informal, informational, critical, empathetic, and therapeutic listening shape meaning, with active listening as a core skill.
Develop active listening skills by fully concentrating, engaging with verbal and nonverbal cues, remaining neutral and nonjudgmental, and practicing reflection, questioning, and summarization.
Identify barriers to effective listening, such as distractions and biases, and practice active listening to understand the speaker, empathize, and improve communication.
Explore common listening misconceptions and learn how active, practiced listening enhances understanding, relationships, and leadership effectiveness by addressing barriers, misperceptions, and gender differences.
Develop a professional image by mastering personal appearance, grooming, and body language to influence first impressions and represent your organization calmly and professionally.
Explore body language and proxemics to decode nonverbal cues, using gestures, posture, eye contact, and distance to enhance communication and interpret emotions.
Master facial expressions and voice cues as core nonverbal tools in communication. Align eye contact and voice dynamics to convey feedback, control turn-taking, and express relationship signals.
Develop a confident, clear speaking style by mastering breath control, volume, articulation, and vocal variety, including pauses for public speaking, while embracing your own voice and accents.
Learn how to master conversational skills by balancing talk and listening, building rapport with small talk, open questions, and emotional connections to engage others.
Develop questioning skills to gather information, clarify points, and understand others. Use open and closed questions, nonverbal cues, and deliberate pauses to guide conversations and build rapport.
Explore the range of question types from open and closed to leading, recall, process, and rhetorical questions, and learn how to use funneling to elicit richer responses.
Master reflecting by mirroring and paraphrasing speakers' words and feelings to verify understanding, encourage dialogue, and reflect both content and emotion non-judgmentally.
Master clarification techniques to ensure accurate listener understanding, reduce misunderstandings, and reassure speakers by reflecting, asking open-ended questions, and summarizing effectively.
Identify root sources of conflict and apply early strategies, from negotiation to mediation, to resolve interpersonal and institutional conflicts with assertiveness and empathy.
Learn how to handle planned and unplanned difficult conversations with empathy and clarity, using information gathering, assertiveness, negotiation, and calm, nonverbal communication.
Learn to distinguish constructive from destructive criticism and deliver specific, behavior-focused feedback that considers impact, timing, and the recipient's readiness to hear it.
Distinguish constructive from destructive criticism, stay calm, and use feedback to improve your communication and interpersonal skills, learning from every remark.
Learn to complain effectively by clearly stating your goal, escalating to senior leadership when needed, and using persistence and social media to secure refunds, apologies, or resolutions.
Learn how mediation uses an impartial third party to help conflicting parties reach a voluntary, jointly developed agreement without the mediator deciding outcomes.
Explore peer mediation in schools, where trained mediators foster win-win solutions via listening, clarifying, and paraphrasing—without taking sides—to reach fair agreements.
Discover practical steps to address workplace bullying, set boundaries, name the behavior, seek support from trusted colleagues, HR or union reps, and uphold zero-tolerance policies.
Written and oral communication is not only about expressing your views, it’s about making your views understood. Someone has to do the work - it shouldn’t be your audience.
In today’s competitive business world and economy, effective communication skills is more essential than ever before. It is the foundation on which companies and careers are built and a crucial component of lasting success.
Did you know that 55% of communication is body language?
Learn how to increase your self-awareness in order to understand your current level of communication with others. Gain practical skills to improve your inter-personal communication through in-class exercises, presentations and feedback from your peers.