
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.
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.
Master reflecting by mirroring and paraphrasing speakers' words and feelings to verify understanding, encourage dialogue, and reflect both content and emotion non-judgmentally.
Distinguish constructive from destructive criticism, stay calm, and use feedback to improve your communication and interpersonal skills, learning from every remark.
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.
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.