Conversation: The power of you!
Have you ever noticed how people who speak with confidence are recognized and gain the best opportunities in life and in business?
Invest in yourself and your future through this course, focused on building confidence and exploring personality and critical thinking skills. This practical, action-packed training is designed to be supportive, with positive feedback that encourages students to open up and interact with fellow students and teachers in an environment that is safe and friendly. This course consists of 33 hours of instruction over a 5 week period.
You will learn how to:
- Speak off-the-cuff,
- Build rapport and connection with others,
- Improve listening skills,
- Build the self-assurance you need to voice your opinions positively and confidently,
- Use techniques and practical experience to organize your thoughts, stay on track, and get to the point,
- Speak positively about yourself and your challenges,
- Take control and respond confidently to questions,
- Establish credibility.
The course covers the following topics:
Conversation Skills
Our lives are shaped by the conversations we have: every one of them can open up new possibilities and expand our horizons. In this portion of the course you will find out how to start a conversation and how to make it an enjoyable and informative practice. The objectives will focus on increasing interpersonal engagement, broadening curiosity and deepening relationships.
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to reach well founded conclusions about them. This section is designed to help learners define and identify critical thinking and reasoning skills and develop those skills.
Personality Development
We need self-confidence, motivation, determination, dedication and perseverance to compete in today’s global business environment. This portion of the course will cover various topics and situations related to one’s personality development by encouraging each individual’s potential and enhancing their natural strengths while developing strategies to overcome weaknesses.
Program Outcomes:
- Initiate and sustain a conversation
- Organize one’s thoughts and stay on topic
- Craft persuasive, effective arguments
- Confidently state opinions and answer questions
- Present information on topics of interest to a general audience
- Deliver effective technical, academic and professional presentations
- Use body language and vocal strategies to convey the right message
- Employ critical thinking, logical analysis and problem solving in a variety of situations
Presentation Skills/ Public Speaking
Everyone feels fearful of presenting and public speaking to one degree or another.
Giving a presentation is very worrying for many people. Presenting or speaking to an audience regularly tops the list in surveys of people’s top fears – more than heights, flying or dying.
Presentation skills and public speaking are very useful in many aspects of work and life. Effective presentations and public speaking skills are important in business, sales and selling, training, teaching, lecturing, and generally feeling comfortable speaking to a group of people.
Developing the confidence and capability to give good presentations, and to stand up in front of an audience and speak well, are also extremely helpful competencies for self-development and social situations.
Presentation skills and public speaking abilities are not limited to certain special people – anyone can give a good presentation, or perform public speaking to a professional and impressive standard. Like most specialism, this requires preparation and practice.
The formats and purposes of presentations can be very different, for example: oral (spoken), multimedia (using various media – visuals, audio, etc), PowerPoint presentations, short impromptu presentations, long planned presentations, educational or training sessions, lectures, and simply giving a talk on a subject to a group on a voluntary basis for pleasure. Yet every successful presentation uses broadly the essential techniques and structures explained here.
Program Objectives:
- Feel prepared at networking functions
- Organize information in a way that is logical and easy to remember
- Confidently communicate in informal situations
- Give formal presentations with confidence
- Appear credible in meetings
- Give participants a clear understanding of what good slide design is and isn’t
- Provide a framework and tools for crafting a visual story
- Raise the quality of visual aids participants are able to quickly and consistently create
- Provide participants with multiple techniques for speaking confidently in front of a group
- Prepare participants to gain control of meetings and convey information with authority
Negotiation Skills Development
Skilled negotiators know how to get what they want without instilling rage in their partners across the table. They research, and they plan before they pick up the phone or schedule a meeting. Unfortunately, far too few people responsible for negotiations fully understand the process and how to get the most out of their business.
Our negotiation training is designed to improve the critical thinking capability, bargaining ability, and people skills of all. The course instructors have worked in different fields of business. Their teaching comes from their own experience.
Program Objectives:
- Build a stronger negotiation base, helping you to improve the outcome of deals
- Develop analytical tools and frameworks for understanding and winning in more sophisticated negotiations
- Acquire hands-on practice enabling you to strengthen weak points and preparing you to Personal negotiation styles
- Understand alternatives and when to walk away from a deal
- The importance of relationships in negotiations
- The challenge of transforming competition into cooperation
- Deal with emotional and irrational situations
- Build coalitions and getting around opposing parties
- Hidden biases and other psychological factors in negotiations return to work
