Personal Impact and Assertiveness is a big umbrella topic that really boils down to:
exploring how we come across to others
and
how do we hit the right note when it comes to getting our voices heard whilst respecting the rights and needs of others?
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Personal Impact and Assertiveness: Questions We Are Often Asked in the Training Room
Posted by Liz McKechnie
Influencing and Communication Skills: Questions We Are Often Asked in the Training Room
Posted by Liz McKechnie
Our Influencing and Communication Skills courses are there to support everyday interactions in the workplace. So often we have to find ways to simply get other people to do something. Most of us have a few influencing tricks we use regularly but it’s when they don’t seem to work that we might need a few more options.
Here are some of the questions that often surface in our training rooms, with some thoughts we explore together.
Knowing Isn’t Doing: The Hidden Cost of Good Communication
Posted by Liz McKechnie
We’ve all been there. We’ve sat in the comms workshops, read the books, nodded along to TED Talks about empathy, active listening, difficult conversations, and speaking your truth and yet, even with all that knowledge, we still find ourselves walking away from meetings thinking,
Why on earth did I say that?
or
Why didn’t I just listen properly?
At Aspire, we work with brilliant people—clever, experienced, emotionally intelligent leaders—who know what good communication looks like. So why don’t they always do it?