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Communication and influencing skills (v)

This workshop will enable you to understand your behaviour and others’ better, and flex your style accordingly.

12 hours

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Course	Location & Date
Communication and influencing skills (v)	N/A

Members:
£1,095.00 Plus vat

Non Members:
£1,350.00 Plus vat

Summary

This workshop will enable you to understand your behaviour and others’ better, and flex your style accordingly.

Developing a powerful and flexible communication style is a great addition to the engineer’s toolkit. Through clear, concise and targeted communication, engineers will be able to improve the influence they have over colleagues and improve their career development prospects.

Attending this workshop will enable you to better understand your own and others’ behaviour and flex your style accordingly. After attending the course, you will be able to communicate more clearly and effectively in order to influence for more favourable results.

Delivery format

This is a virtual classroom based course, delivered online.

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Verified by an engineer, Kieran Collingwood, EngTech MIMechE TMIET
"It’s about mentally giving yourself that push, thinking, ‘yes, I'm going to go and have that conversation now."
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Who should attend?

This programme is suitable for engineers and non-engineers at all levels.

How will I benefit?

After the course you will be able to:

Better understand your own behaviour and how it is perceived by others.
Improve the way you interact with colleagues.
Increase your ability to influence those you work with.
Tailor your message for improved outcomes.
Use the DiSC personality profile methodology to improve the impact of your communications.
Use a number of influencing strategies/approaches & styles depending on your situation.

Contributes 12 CPD hours

Key topics

Introduction to communication.
Personal behavioural styles.
Listening.
Non-verbal communication.
Power and influence.
Influencing.
Influencing styles.

Meet our trainers

These trainers regularly teach Communication and influencing skills (v).

Andy Webber

Andy is a professional facilitator with over 15 years of experience in coaching, mentoring, consulting and delivering training.

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At a glance

Duration:

12 hours
CPD Hours:

12
UK-Spec:

D, E

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