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LEAD - Leadership module

Listening & Effective Communication

Duration: 1 days
Target population: All staff members in management and excluded positions
Cost: $0
Course objectives:
This workshops will:
* Provide insight into your listening, interaction, and behavioural styles
* Explore how different listening approaches impact listening effectiveness
* Discuss barriers to effective communication
* Practice listening, responding, and questioning skills in work context interactions
* Define, discuss, and practice general communication skills
* Create a personal development plan to improve overall communication


By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
* extract factual information to resolve a customer or colleague's problems, questions, or concerns
* Understand and use each of the five listening dimensions
* Choose a listening approach appropriate to the situation
* Respond to customer situations where one's creativity is limited
* Overcome listening barriers, reduce conflict, and improve performance
* Improve interactions with customers through a renewed confidence in communication strategies

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