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Advanced Communication Skills for Leaders Course

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Leadership. Inspiring and enabling organisations to create and realise optimal value.

Join us for a day of interactive and immersive exercises to help you cultivate advanced communication skills. You will learn the hidden aspects of effective communication and to design and deliver purposeful communication to meet a variety of needs. This course will help you better understand interpersonal dynamics and assist in your ability to influence others.

This course is for you if you are a leader who has mastered basic communication strategies and are looking to employ more advanced techniques.

Aims

The aim of this course is to increase your awareness of unconscious dynamics in interpersonal communication, helping you to better convey your message and influence others.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

identify unconscious interpersonal dynamics that impact communication
design a communication approach for a variety of needs, for e.g. influencing or informing
utilise key influencing skills
develop skills to identify and correct conversations when they go off track
give and receive effective feedback to enhance your results
put together an effective communication message for delivery.

Content

Introduction

Context setting and orientation
The common denominator in communication

The inner game

The left hand and right-hand column of communication – my own role
Analysing the hidden dynamics of communication

Analysing the context

Current state to desired state
Collecting and ordering information

Delivering with influence and impact

The role and art of framing
Influencing tools
Dealing with resistance
When conversations are crucial

Giving and receiving feedback

How to deliver feedback effectively
How to receive feedback effectively

Intended audience

Anyone in a leadership position.

Prerequisites

A willingness to approach the topics with an open mind.

Delivery modes

Face-to-face, presenter-taught training
Online training via the platform Zoom

Delivery style

Information sessions supported by interactive activities and class discussions. This day-long program has you utilising the content at each step into a coherent presentation or delivery for practice at the end.

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

Schedule

Face-to-face (CCE Building, Newtown)

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Thu 13 Mar 2025 9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)

1 session, 8 hours total

Face-to-face (CCE Building, Newtown)

Peta Bayman

Thu 13 Mar 2025

9am - 5pm (UTC+11:00)

Room 303 - Face-to-face (CCE Building, Newtown)

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Wed 25 Jun 2025 9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)

1 session, 8 hours total

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Peta Bayman

Wed 25 Jun 2025

9am - 5pm (UTC+10:00)

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Meet the facilitators

Peta Bayman

Peta is a passionate learning and development professional who specialises in team dynamics; particularly in helping organisations build conscious cultures that flow from an aligned and...

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Great format of the course, great pace, useful theory, tools, methods. Fantastic teacher who kept the subject interesting and relevant, with a good sense of humour.

Magda Kubicka

A very valuable day packed full of practical tools, and activities to practice on real life challenges.

Lanie McHugh

Enlightening content. Practical tools to grasp and implement. Great delivery by Peta. 10/10 overall experience.

Fade Aboweny

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