Effective Communication Skills for Effective Leadership

Your ability to communicate is the #1 factor in determining how you are perceived. Do others see you as a leader? Do they see your true essence? Are you communicating the desired message when you work with your employees, your peers and your managers?

Effective communication skills are essential to your success as a leader. Everyone communicates. You would think it's easy, but we all know it's not. Why? What makes effective communication such a challenge? How do you overcome these challenges?

This workshop will help you will learn about the art of communication. Not just concepts, but practical skills you can put to use in your life immediately.

After this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Identify the realities and challenges of communicating so you can fully grasp why effective communication is so hard to achieve and identify the skills you need to overcome these challenges.
2. Use the structure of a productive coaching discussion that will help your employees continually improve their performance and move any discussion towards action and results.
3. Explore and practice using the skills needed to develop information in partnership with another during a conversation.
4. Use effective listening skills to establish rapport so that your communication partner feels unique, special and totally understood.
5. Use clarifying skills to establish full understanding and shared meaning during conversations with others, reducing the chance of misunderstanding or being misunderstood.
6. Use behavioral language that will enable you to say precisely what you mean and reduce confusion and misunderstandings.
7. Establish an emotional connection with others by using empathy statements when appropriate during a class.
8. Create the information needed to that the substance of a conversation is translated into action and can be easily documented.