Day One - Exploring Communication Skills
- Course introduction and overview of course activities
- Barriers to effective communication and how to overcome them
- The interaction of verbal, non-verbal, and ‘hidden’ elements in communication
- NLP and Emotional Intelligence - developing sensitivity and building rapport
- Briefing skills
- Intra – and inter–team communications and meeting skills – ensuring constructive discussions
- Assertiveness, conflict management, and emotional resilience
Day Two - Negotiating Skills
- Negotiating Exercise 1
- Preparation, planning objectives, and positions
- Exploring deal variables and win-win opportunities
- Structuring a negotiation
- Bidding, bargaining, proposing, and closing
- Creative negotiating – ‘thinking outside of the box
- Negotiation Exercise 2
Day Three - Presentation Skills 1
- Presentation Skills Exercise 1
- Characteristics of effective presentations and presenters
- Confidence and nerves
- Determining content and level
- Structuring a presentation
- Making a case
- Preparing for a presentation
- Developing and using notes
- Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 1)
- Using and abusing visual aids (PowerPoint)
Day Four - Presentation Skills 2
- Stage management
- Using your voice and body and facial expression
- Choosing your words – psycho-linguistic research and the art of oratory
- Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 2 – preparation)
- Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 3 – presentations and feedback)
- Managing the audience
- Handling questions
Day Five - Presentation Skills 3/Communication and Influencing Skills
- Presentation Skills Exercise 2 (Part 3 – presentations and feedback) cont’d
- Presenting as a team
- Introducing change and getting support – influencing skills and managing the ‘politics’
- Program review and action points