Effective Communication
Subject category: Leadership and ManagementCourse overview
Managers will be encouraged to reflect on their own communication skills and how these are perceived by others, and how to develop these with the production of an action plan to achieve their goals, with clear timelines to achieve their actions.
This course is delivered using a range of methods and resources including:
Video clips, small group activities and group discussion
This course has been developed and mapped to:
The National Skills Academy: The Leadership Qualities Framework
And the following:
ILM Level 5 Management Communication Unit
Course content
The importance of effective communication at work and the effects of poor communication
The stages in communication
Possible barriers to communication and methods to overcome them
Ways to ensure effective communication in the workplace
Different types of communication and their advantages and disadvantages
Active listening skills
Significance of non-verbal communication and body language
Techniques of face to face and indirect communication and when each is appropriate
Using feedback to check effectiveness of communication
Assessing and developing own communication skills through feedback and reflection
Learning outcomes
- Describe the importance of effective communication at work and the effects of poor communication
- Explain the stages in communication
- Describe possible barriers to communication and methods to overcome them
- Describe ways to ensure effective communication in the workplace
- Explain the different types of communication and their advantages and disadvantages
- Explain active listening skills
- Describe the significance of non-verbal communication and body language
- Describe techniques of face to face and indirect communication and when each is appropriate
- Explain how to use feedback to check effectiveness of communication
- Explain how to assess and develop own communication skills through feedback and reflection
Duration
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