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Archive for the ‘Communication Skills’ Category

Personal Impact and Assertiveness: Questions We Are Often Asked in the Training Room

Posted by Liz McKechnie

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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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.

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Empathy in the Age of Polarisation: Why Spectrum Thinking Matters More Than Ever

Posted by Kitty Bertenshaw

Apparently, we are living in an age of polarisation. The pressure to divide and overcome is strong as the media urges us towards simple answers, clear villains, and binary choices. So, spectrum thinking matters more politically, socially, and culturally than ever.

 

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