Workshops & Training
At our workshop we love to share what we’ve learned over the years – from our own corporate experience, our training, and from our clients.
Increase Your Skills with a Coach
We design custom workshops, lunch & learns, and webinars to help your teams and groups learn to tackle some of their biggest workplace challenges, including:
- time management (working smarter, not harder)
- having difficult conversations in the workplace
- effective listening
- performance management conversations
- coaching skills for managers
- running effective (and useful!) meetings
Effective Communication Skills Training involves:
01.
Building Relationships That Last
Relationships rely on trust. From vendor to the client, friend to a family member, and everything in between—you’re not going to have a healthy or lasting relationship with someone if you don’t trust them. Sometimes, trust can be broken unnecessarily when you don’t have the proper communication skills training under your belt. When emotions run high, it’s very easy to lose sight of what’s important in an interaction, and communication gets frazzled. This is why finding the proper ways to improve communication skills is a must—it helps everyone, in every situation.
02.
Ways to Improve Communication Skills
There are numerous areas of communication skills training that you may need to cover. If you notice different aspects of your life—such as work, play, and the in-between—could use a tune-up on your interactions, you need a workshop. Proper communication is one of the most overlooked aspects of any profession, and every relationship can benefit from improvements.
03.
Take the Time to Listen
Though it sounds simple, the first communication skills training you ought to engage in is how to deeply, and intently listen. Now, we all know how to sit back and let someone talk, but our minds can often trail away. This is not truly listening. Focus listening requires dedication to the interaction, and often leads to repeating what you heard for clarity and acknowledgment. Deep listening is the bridge to all healthy interactions, and communication skills training tackles this topic as a priority.
04.
Be Considerate
This sounds like common sense. You should treat others the way you want to be treated. Everybody knows that. There are little ways, however, that we can be inconsiderate to others without even knowing it, especially in the era of technology. Communication has become streamlined, digitalized, and cold. There’s little room for emotion or empathy, and that’s a big problem. Whether it’s just workplace communication, or in personal aspects of your life, you need to put your best foot forward with the effort.