Effective Communication is ensuring the content of the message that is to be delivered is received and understood by all concerned. It is a great temptation to believe that because the message makes sense to yourself that it will be clear to everyone else. This introductory course provides tools, techniques and practices for all those who need to make significant improvements in their communication skills.
Course Objectives
By the end of the session the delegates will be able to:-
To improve the quality of communication in a wide variety of situations across all levels of a business
Skills Gained
This course will enable delegates to:
Understand different communication styles.
Structure their own communication for maximum effect.
Create rapport with people to remove communication barriers.
Feel confident when getting their message across.
Create the right impression within meetings through the use of powerful statements.
Deal with their own difficult people.
Schedule
The course times are indicative only and may need to be adapted to meet delegates learning needs and include fruitful discussions. Each member of the group will be sent two red SDI booklets, which will need to handed to two different people from whom they would appreciate feedback. The completed booklets need to be returned to each delegate in a sealed envelope before the training begins.
Course Introduction
General administration and introduction to learning opportunities
Trainer to introduce the course objectives.
Delegate introductions to identify personal objectives
Strength Deployment Inventory
The S.D.I questionnaire gives delegates an understanding of their own motivators and drivers for their behaviours when things are going well and also when they are in conflict.
It also allows them to explore the different motivators and drivers they might expect from the seven different S.D.I styles and identify the behaviours that support clear communication paths and those to avoid.
Communicating Effectively with Different Motivational Value Systems
Delegates are grouped according to their Motivational Value Systems, to allow them to produce a checklist of the behaviours and attitudes that appeal to and irritate them the most. The findings are related back to the first session of the day. Delegates are invited to “quiz” the different styles that they find most difficult to work with.
Coaching Session
The areas covered will vary from person to person, but each person will be taken through the Meta-mirror technique (outlined below) as a way of dealing with conflict.
Handling Conflict
The meta-mirror is an NLP technique developed by Robert Dilts which will allow each delegate to explore a difficult relationship that they would like to change. It allows you to experience the situation from three different perspectives; your own, that of the other person and finally as an external observer.
This allows a new approach to be taken in what can appear to be “stuck” or difficult relationships.
If you would like to book onto a course or find out more information please fill out our contact form or call us on 01454 203 355.
Lead Consultants
Sally Strong
Engaging, approachable, action and results-oriented soft skills trainer and performance coach. Consistently provides practical solutions to individuals and organisations for increased productivity and improved job satisfaction. By utilising outstanding inter-personal and communication skills can build rapid rapport. Sally integrates business experience, coaching skills and psychological methodology to deliver the ultimate... Continued
Sarah Elliott
Sarah Elliott has been working in the Training Industry for over 20 years. She brings an infectious enthusiasm for both account-managing clients and hands-on delivery of specific Microsoft Office Training courses. Sarah’s background in IT helps enormously, as she is able to advise clients of the best route to take... Continued
Sophie Edmond
Sophie has over 13 years’ experience as a people development specialist gained with blue chip companies such as Volkswagen Group, Centrica Energy, Three and Virgin Media. Associate clients include an international entertainment organisation, a UK based retailer and an international FMCG business. As a trainer and facilitator, she is experienced... Continued
Louise Hemming
Louise is a highly motivated, business focused, HR & Development professional. She is a leadership coach and team facilitator. Louise has experience in designing and deploying talent & learning development programmes, organisational development, talent succession, strategic planning, acquisition integration, project management and external consultant liaison. Her key skills include networking... Continued
Jilly Curteis
Jilly is a fully qualified consultant and has worked within the training environment since the early seventies. Working with organisations in both the public and private sectors she has developed and delivered a wide range of courses in management skills and personal development. She believes very strongly in running highly... Continued
Nina Goldsworthy-Griffiths
Nina specialises in creating purposeful learning solutions for organisational and people change, for business growth and customer engagement. Nina draws on 20 years’ experience in a broad range of diverse business sectors such as Loss Adjusting, Construction, Manufacturing, Rail, Road, Water, Energy, Local Authorities, Hospitality and Retail. An experienced leadership... Continued
Caroline Attwood
An experienced, professional and adaptable IT Trainer and Consultant with a proven track record of delivering solutions to high-profile clients in various market sectors in all the various Office suite of products. Proficient training consultant with over 25 years of training and technical authoring experience in the IT industry. Feedback... Continued
Leanne Flower
Leanne has a breadth of experience in sectors including automotive, engineering, banking, and the pharmaceutical industry. She specialises in training and coaching leaders, managers and developing executives from both public and private sectors, working at all levels including Board Directors. Leanne holds a BA Hons in Business Studies, a post-graduate... Continued
John Pascall
John delivering hands-on training in MS Office applications (including VBA and SQL and Access, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project all to Expert level), also consultancy/development/ problem-solving in MS Access and Excel. John has a huge amount of experience in developing Access databases from scratch, as well as upgrading existing databases... Continued
Simon Lambourne
Simon specialises in teaching Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and OneNote) products using all versions up to and including Office 2016 and Office 365. An expert in OneDrive for Business, Yammer, Delve, Sway and Skype for Business. Experience in dealing with many different abilities and have travelled across... Continued
Gary (London and South East)
Gary is a first class trainer with 15 years’ experience in training and consultancy. He has an innovative approach to training that not only changes his delegates’ performance in the workplace, but has helped many develop techniques that can go beyond business to create change in other areas of their... Continued
Sara (South West)
Sara is a people development specialist and a real asset to Elliott Training. Her development career has been established within leading companies including British Airways, the Woolwich Building Society, Compaq Computers and Zurich Financial Services. She has held a variety of training roles from International Sales Trainer to Head of... Continued
Duncan (SharePoint Specialist, Nationally)
Duncan qualified in 1987 as a civil engineer, and in 1994 as a project manager. He spent 9 years in the construction industry in various parts of Africa working on projects ranging from high rise buildings to bridges. He worked for Grinaker Construction – an international construction company – and... Continued
Sandy (London, South East)
Sandy is an experienced trainer with many years of training starting in 1990. She ran her own business in South Africa for 6 years working in many different areas, from Corporate Companies to Colleges helping learners to develop their skills from introduction levels to advanced levels in IT. Sandy has... Continued
Sara (North)
A versatile and highly experienced training professional holding a wide range of qualifications from a Teaching PGCE to IT qualifications to include the Institute of IT Training’s e-Tutor Certificate and being a Microsoft MOUS Master Instructor. Additionally, Sarah has the ability to speak German fluently and French to a working... Continued
Nicola (Midlands)
Nicola works as a trainer specialising within the Microsoft Office environment training groups ranging from one to ten delegates. She trains using a comfortable, easy to understand and informative style. Nicola has a very personal and friendly approach adapting to all various types of queries. She is very professional and... Continued
