Training course introduction
This course is very important for people who wish to improve their interpersonal communication skills and effectively manage the communication process. We will focus on techniques which apply to negotiation process, team work, sales presentations, conflict management and all activities/processes where communication plays a key role.
Aims
To help participants improve their listening techniques and question-asking skills in order to achieve specific goals.
Target
People determined to increase efficiency and effectiveness in communication.
Training languages
English, Italian
Contents
- Analysis of the communication context
- Peculiarities of effective communication
- Threats to the effectiveness of communication: perception, personality, environment, other
- Feedback: a key factor of the communication process
- Needs and motivations of the counterparty
- Classes of questions: closed, semi-closed, open
- Questions for ”opening”: developing options and/or possible solutions
- Questions for “closing”: towards the desired solution
- Low-risk questions
- Increasing effectiveness: clarification, verification, reformulation
- Who you would never meet: the chatterbox and the silent person
- Staying focused: listening awareness
- Types of listening, aimed at specific situation
- Problems we have with listening: knowing them to overcome them
- A test for assessing our ability to listen
- Empathic listening: understanding emotions
- Questions, answers, effectively listening: the “dynamic” conversation
Training method
- Learning by experience
- The trainer helps participants to “discover” the various topics and to face situations that are technically similar to those they are used to deal with or they are expected to
Duration
Two days or more, according to the Client’s needs
Trainer
Arduino Mancini