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Mastering Effective Communication

How to make your conversations more meaningful, concise and mutually satisfying
Rating: 4.1 out of 54.1 (2,068 ratings)
6,190 students
Created by Skill Boosters, Barry Winbolt
Last updated 10/2017
English
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What you'll learn

  • You will understand advanced communication concepts often not covered by formal education
  • The main elements of effective communication
  • How to make your communications 'fit for purpose'
  • How to set the scene for better mutual understanding
  • What makes a meaningful conversation
  • The art of summarising to avoid misunderstandings
  • The effective use of questions, and why some questions can be barriers to effective communication

Requirements

  • The course does not require learners to have any specific software, just basic computer-operating skills.
  • No special materials or prior knowledge necessary - everything is provided.

Description

This illuminating and informative course outlines the principles of Effective Communication. It explains why our communication often fails, and how to avoid the pitfalls. 

You’ll learn how to prepare for an important conversation, how to structure it, and how to deliver even the most difficult message with confidence and sensitivity.

By the end of the course, you’ll have new insights to refresh your communications; you may well be thinking, “I wish that I’d been taught this in school.”

As the different aspects are explained via our video lectures, each section is supported by downloadable exercises and other resources to help you revise and consolidate the learning.

We all know of people who can talk a lot but say very little. At the other end of the spectrum, there are those whose uttering and emails are so terse that you have trouble deciphering them.

Effective and empathetic communication requires sensitivity and lightness of touch, and you can learn how to develop all the skills you need so that others will want to engage with you and hear what you have to say.

Even difficult messages can be delivered without needless pain and unpleasant reactions. All it takes is the know-how. 

This course features easily learned elements supported by practical exercises, all clearly explained by Barry Winbolt, lecturer and psychotherapist, based on his 30 years' experience of helping people to improve workplace relationships and performance in many different settings and cultures.

He’ll take you through what it means to communicate well and:

  • How to set the scene for maximum engagement
  • That your attitude comes before success
  • How to listen with empathy and build rapport
  • Why ‘less is more’ when the message is right
  • That you must be congruent and mean what you say
  • To attend to the verbal and non-verbal parts of the message
  • How to tell people things they might not want to hear
  • How to plan your message for maximum effect
  • How to follow up on a conversation.


The foundation for effective communication is the relationship you have with your audience. Whether it is one person or many, a brief message or an ongoing dialogue, to communicate well you must make sure your message hits the spot. This course will show you how to do it.

Who this course is for:

  • Aimed primarily at managers, aspiring managers and others in a supervisory role, the content is applicable to anyone who wants to understand how to communicate more effectively for personal or professional development.

Featured review

Abongile Arthur Mavela
Abongile Arthur Mavela
9 courses
5 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 511 months ago
This course really dives in to how to properly communicate as beings. This course has given me in-depth tips to consider when communicating. Really worth the investment. The speaker also communicates effectively verbally and non verbally. I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking to improve themselves.

Course content

7 sections • 19 lectures • 58m total length

  • Preview02:02

  • Preview03:40
  • Preview02:51
  • Who is talking?
    03:43
  • Four main types of communication
    03:24
  • Section 2 Progress Quiz
    4 questions

  • Preview02:03
  • It's not just about words
    03:54
  • Put the relationship first
    02:57
  • Empathy and rapport
    03:02
  • Section 3 progress quiz
    3 questions

  • Preview02:08
  • What makes a meaningful conversation?
    02:37
  • Confidence, congruence and credibility
    02:39
  • Section 4 assessment quiz. How are you doing?
    3 questions

  • Listening effectively
    02:06
  • The use of questions
    02:30
  • Checking understanding and the art of summarising
    02:52
  • The art of sensitive conversations
    04:46
  • Section 5 Progress Quiz
    4 questions

  • Staying on track
    02:32
  • Barriers to understanding
    04:58

  • Summary
    03:42
  • Closing Quiz
    3 questions

Instructors

Skill Boosters
Films for a better workplace
Skill Boosters
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 30,497 Reviews
  • 77,192 Students
  • 34 Courses

At Skill Boosters we work with leading subject matter experts to design, develop and deliver effective video based training for the workplace.  We are passionate about delivering impactful training which helps to build productive, tolerant and inclusive individuals, teams and workplaces and which improves lives and life chances.

Our courses combine video drama, expert analysis, documentary sequences and interactive study to provide flexible, cost-effective training that engages, informs and inspires our learners.

Skill Boosters courses and resources are trusted by many of the world's leading organisations to develop and improve the skills and behaviours of their people.

Barry Winbolt
Peronal development training for life and career
Barry Winbolt
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 18,765 Reviews
  • 50,928 Students
  • 9 Courses

BARRY WINBOLT MSc. is a trainer, coach, psychotherapist and writer.
For more than 25  years he has advised people in many cultures on how to
improve their working relationships and enhance the quality of their lives. Over the same period he has provided training and coaching for personal and professional development.

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