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• Communic8 Essentials - Communication Skills
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Communic8 Essentials

   Communication Skills

    Being able to communicate well is a multi-faceted skill that has a direct impact on your career success. After all, you may be competent, brilliant, and even right—but if you can’t communicate your ideas, you’ll get left in the dust.
    This workshop focuses on eight essentials to good, well-rounded communication. All of them are important in helping you enhance your professionalism, improve your relationships, and make a difference in your business success.

1. Verbal –what you say. Guidelines include word choices, positive versus negative phrasing, organizing your thoughts.
2. Vocal – how you say it. The meaning of what you say is determined by how you say it. Tips on vocal variety—varying your rate, volume, tone, and inflection—give you ways to lend interest and appeal to your voice.
3. Nonverbal – what you look like. Your nonverbal communication has the most impact on your communication meaning. Posture, facial expressions, eye communication, attire, and body language are all elements that send signals—learn how to use them to convey the strongest impression.
4. Listening – the most important skill. Three steps of active listening are given.
5. Empathy – relating to others. The ability to see and understand another person’s perspective is a great bridge builder.
6. Writing – a powerful form of communication. The written word is powerful because it’s planned, permanent, and can be made public. Clarity and organization are covered.
7. Persuading – the secret to getting what you want. People are persuaded less by logic than by emotion. Discover the elements crucial to persuasion and how to appeal to what motivates others.
8. Socializing – conversing with comfort and ease. The cocktail reception, the awards banquet, the organization luncheon, the business dinner. There are countless occasions in business that call for our ability to converse with others comfortably and intelligently. Tips are given on managing the business social, making conversation, mixing and mingling.