Communication Skills
for Successful Leadership and Effective Project Management
Good communication is a key element in the skills portfolio of any successful professional. Being able to articulate your vision and strategies clearly enables you to energize and motivate your team and establishes you as a strong leader and capable manager within the organization. Harnessing the skills to influence others can be the difference between success and failure.
Communication is so vital to an organization's decision-making process that all project managers must have the skills to initiate and respond to all forms of communication. The successful manager builds collaborative relationships through active listening. He or she can dramatically increase productivity by running efficient meetings and business discussions.
Building collaborative relationships based on trust and respect, gaining commitment for your vision, and leading your team and stakeholders to consensus are all critical competencies for today's project managers.
The following courses will help you become a more compelling and persuasive communicator needed in order to achieve project success.
Communication Skills: Results through Collaboration
Course 292 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Achieve results in your communications with others
- Build collaborative relationships that emphasize trust and respect
- Communicate effectively using simple, concise and direct language
- Enhance your active listening skills to anticipate and avoid common misunderstandings
- Foster cross-cultural understanding in your workplace
- Eliminate the roadblocks that undermine your ability to communicate effectively
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Course 905 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Facilitate goal-oriented results through planning, collaboration and consensus
- Maintain facilitative focus by adopting the right frame of mind
- Create a targeted agenda to make meetings productive
- Start up, manage and close effective meetings
- Resolve disagreement using a range of consensus-building techniques
- Develop and implement a facilitative action plan
► Get more details and a current schedule Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority
Course 294 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
- Define desired outcomes for win-win results
- Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
- Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
- Deal effectively with challenging behaviours to overcome resistance and inertia in others
- Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
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