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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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Feedback Conversations Online

Posted by Matteo Trevisan

Let’s talk about feedback conversations online. It’s challenging in person, even more so online.

But let me ask you first, Would you feel safer knowing people were honest with their feedback, or if they withheld opinion or obscured their truth? The answer seems pretty obvious yet our reactions don’t always match our intentions. It would be great if everyone took the attitude that Marcus Aurelius took, one of the great emperors of the Roman empire and Stoic Philosopher:

If anyone can refute me‚ show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective‚ I’ll gladly change.

It’s the truth I’m after.

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