Harpenden

<p>This workshop will provide participants with the insight and skills to be more effective business networkers, face-to-face and online.</p><p>The approach taken is to build on the strengths people already have and their successes. It is easier to develop what you already have than to try and develop skills that do not come easily. Being yourself is the most effective tool for business networking and building relationships.</p>This course will help those attending:<ul><li>Appreciate the importance of networking, and different forms of networking</li><li>Understand the dynamics of communication that are specific to networking</li><li>Become more confident and assured when 'working' a room</li><li>Improve their influencing skills, especially with people who are experts and in positions of authority</li><li>'Sell' themselves and promote their company</li><li>Identify and manage their profiles using online social networking sites</li><li>Use effective follow-up to maintain active contacts and connections</li><li>Select the correct networking groups, clubs and events</li><li>Create their own personal network</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 The importance, and different types, of networking</h3><ul><li>Personal objectives and introductions</li><li>Test networking session</li><li>Examples of the importance, purpose and format of various types of networking, and benefits you can expect</li></ul> <h3>2 How to work a room - preparation and strategy</h3><ul><li>Three things to know before you attend any event</li><li>Non-verbal communication and art of rapport</li><li>Breaking the ice - worked examples with practical demonstration</li></ul> <h3>3 Communication dynamics in networking - the power of the listening networker</h3><ul><li>Why it is better to listen than talk</li><li>Effective questioning and active listening</li><li>Creating a natural and engaging conversation, 1-2-1 and in a larger group</li></ul> <h3>4 Assumptions when networking</h3><ul><li>How to use the 'instant judgement' of others to your advantage</li><li>What assumptions are you making?</li><li>How to keep an open mind</li></ul> <h3>5 Business networking etiquette</h3><ul><li>Meeting and greeting at a business networking event - approaching complete strangers and introducing yourself</li><li>Socialising: joining and leaving groups easily</li><li>Making a good first impression in 30 seconds</li><li>The use of status when networking</li></ul> <h3>6 Making connections</h3><ul><li>Asking for cards, contact details and referrals</li><li>Gaining a follow-up commitment</li><li>Some tips and tricks</li></ul> <h3>7 Business networking rehearsals</h3><ul><li>Practice sessions</li></ul> <h3>8 Personal business networking online</h3><ul><li>Overview of different types of networking sites - there is a lot more out there than just Facebook!</li><li>Examples of creating an effective profile</li><li>Using social networking effectively - case studies and application</li><li>'Advanced' applications - blogs, articles, twitter, feeds, etc.</li><li>Online demonstration and examples</li></ul> <h3>9 Building relationships - follow-up and follow-through</h3><ul><li>Maintaining a good database</li><li>Developing a contact strategy with different types and levels of contact</li><li>How to analyse your contact base</li></ul> 


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The In House Training Company

Professional Skills

Meeting Skills

Networking Skills

Business Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Personal Networking

Business networking skills  (In-House)

<h2>Honest Conversations: In-House</h2><h3>Giving and receiving feedback - with confidence, grace and clarity</h3><p>Few of us are naturals when it comes to having honest conversations, especially around giving and receiving feedback.</p><p>We struggle to find a path between being too direct and confrontational, as against softening our message so much that it gets lost in an emotional fog.</p><p>We need to structure information in a non-emotive way, giving clear feedback and delivering messages with empathy and compassion. We need a toolkit we can use on a day-to-day basis to build an honest, open working culture with those who report to us - and, indeed, with those to whom we report. This very popular programme is the answer.</p><h3>What's in it for you?</h3><ul><li>Understand what honest conversations are and why they're important</li><li>Be able to identify and manage your emotions</li><li>Be able to use a variety of techniques for structuring honest conversations</li><li>Learn how to get key messages across, with empathy and compassion</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>What's a difficult conversation? What's an honest conversation? And what's the difference?</h3><ul><li>What makes a conversation &amp;'difficult'?</li><li>What makes for an &amp;'honest' conversation?</li><li>Why they're not the same</li></ul><h3>The role emotions play</h3><ul><li>What neuroscience tells us about how our emotions work</li><li>How certain situations can prompt strong reactions</li><li>The NLP model of communication and how our brains will delete, distort and generalise information based on our own unique map of the world</li><li>The belief cycle</li><li>Techniques for identifying your emotions and managing them</li></ul><h3>Understanding your purpose</h3><ul><li>Where most conversations go wrong</li><li>Are you looking for them to change behaviour, to understand new information, to influence them or to express your feelings?</li><li>The A to B model for structuring your honest conversation</li></ul><h3>Giving and receiving feedback</h3><ul><li>The benefits of giving and receiving feedback</li><li>How emotions play a role in feedback</li><li>How to structure feedback using the See/Saw Model</li><li>How giving positive feedback can be just as difficult for some people</li><li>How to manage your emotions and accept feedback with grace</li><li>Keeping focused on the positives</li></ul><h3>Raising issues</h3><ul><li>How to build up to an honest conversation</li><li>Maintaining rapport while raising issues</li><li>The LADDER model for planning and executing the discussion</li></ul><h3>Empathy and understanding others' perspectives</h3><ul><li>How a perceived lack of understanding and empathy raise the temperature</li><li>Practical techniques for &amp;'standing in the other's shoes'</li><li>Effective questioning and listening</li><li>The role of positive intentions and values in honest conversations</li></ul><h3>Making sure you get it right</h3><ul><li>The &amp;'must haves' for effective honest conversations</li><li>Unconscious biases<ul><li>Affinity bias</li><li>Attribution bias</li><li>Conformity bias</li><li>Confirmation bias</li><li>Gender bias</li></ul></li><li>Factual inaccuracies</li><li>The Ladder of Inference as a model for taking a fact-based approach</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Maximum Performance

Honest Conversations: In-House

<p>Bad news - people don't buy your product.</p><p>Better news - they don't buy anyone else's product either.</p><p>Best news - they do buy what a product gives them, whether it be removing 'pain' or giving 'pleasure'.</p><p>So what a challenge it is that every single person buys your product for a slightly different reason! What's the secret to selling in that sort of sales environment? This programme provides a great roadmap.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Build rapport with authenticity</li><li>Use open questions, listening and summary to properly understand the prospect</li><li>Use 'impact' questions to 'stack the pain' of remaining with the status quo</li><li>Convert features into personalised benefits that reflect stated needs</li><li>Handle objections with calm confidence</li><li>Identify buying signals</li><li>Close effectively</li><li>Convey credible urgency centred on the prospect's - not the salesperson's - interests</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 What makes a customer buy any product?</h3><ul><li>Moving towards 'pleasure'</li><li>Moving away from 'pain'</li><li>Robert Cialdini's Psychology of Influence - buying motives</li><li>Understanding what your product does for customers</li><li>Why there is never a 'one size fits all' approach</li><li>What are the real 'unique selling points' and why the salesperson is the real 'USP'</li><li>At what point does the customer emotionally buy your product?</li></ul> <h3>2 Getting past gatekeepers</h3><ul><li>What gatekeepers' motivations are</li><li>How to make them your friend rather than your enemy</li><li>How to make your call harder to block than to put through</li><li>How to control the gatekeeper with questions, not answers</li><li>Using Cialdini's 'reciprocity' law to get put through more often</li><li>Practical exercise in which the trainer poses as gatekeeper</li></ul> <h3>3 Questioning and listening skills</h3><ul><li>How to use open questions to get the customer talking</li><li>What questions to avoid and why</li><li>How to 'stack the pain' of the status quo with 'impact questions'</li><li>Practical 'pain stacking' exercise in pairs</li><li>What listening is and what it isn't</li><li>Question funnelling - how to earn deeper disclosure through probing</li><li>Practical funnelling exercise in pairs</li><li>The power of summary</li></ul> <h3>4 How to create tailored benefits and not 'dive into solution'</h3><ul><li>What is 'diving into solution'? Examples and analogies</li><li>Why it is to be avoided</li><li>Practical exercise in pairs - how it feels to have solutions offered up too early</li><li>How to avoid 'feature-dumping'</li><li>What is 'value selling'?</li><li>How to create tailored benefits</li><li>How to convert product features into benefits</li><li>How to deal with the prospect's competitor allegiance</li></ul> <h3>5 Handling objections and testing the water</h3><ul><li>How to overcome the price objection by selling value</li><li>Common objections the participants encounter and answers that work</li><li>The objections salespeople carry in their own heads</li><li>The 'A-C-E' objection-handling model</li><li>How to uncover objections</li><li>When - and when not - to trial close</li></ul> <h3>6 Closing skills</h3><ul><li>Why salespeople often close too early</li><li>How to identify buying signals</li><li>How to use urgency with skill and effectiveness</li><li>Four killer closing techniques that work</li><li>How to avoid buying the product back by careless post-sale talk</li><li>How to ask for referrals for your product</li><li>How to 'farm' the account for future opportunities</li></ul> <h3>7 Wrap-up</h3><ul><li>Key learnings from each participant</li><li>Individual action planning - steps that can and will be implemented in the workplace</li></ul> 


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Online Course Marketing

Coaching Skills

Professional Selling Skills (PSS)

Counselling Skills

Sales skills for selling products (In-House)

<h2>Performance Management: In-House</h2><p>Every organisation has people who are high-performing with lots of potential for career progress.</p><p>They also have under-performers who can often take up a lot of valuable management time as well as affecting the motivation of the rest of the team.</p><p>In this highly practical and interactive course, you will learn how to continue to develop and stretch high achievers and manage under-performers effectively.</p><p>Addressing some of the common causes of under-performance and lack of motivation will help everyone in your team, free up your own time, allow you to spend more time with your good- and high-performers, and help you achieve better results all round.</p><ul><li>Understand the components of good and bad performance</li><li>Be able to assess the performance levels of your direct reports</li><li>Learn some strategies for dealing with different types of under-performance</li><li>Be able to get the most out of high-achievers</li><li>Understand the role competencies play in assessing performance and communicating it</li><li>Be able to set clear goals and communicate them effectively</li><li>Boost your confidence in managing performance</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>Why manage performance?</h3><ul><li>The cost to the organisation, the team and you, their manager, of losing high-performers</li><li>The cost of failing to manage under-performers</li></ul><h3>The performance potential matrix</h3><ul><li>A clean and simple way of identifying the performance levels of the people in your team</li><li>What does high-, mid- and low-performance look like in your organisation?</li><li>Gathering information to support performance management</li></ul><h3>Managing and developing high performers</h3><ul><li>Why high-performers sometimes leave - how to spot the warning signs and avoid it</li><li>How to engage and motivate high-performers</li><li>Using the 9-box grid</li></ul><h3>Managing and developing the 'backbone'</h3><ul><li>How to manage people who are happy where they are</li><li>How to keep them motivated</li></ul><h3>Managing highly capable people who lack motivation</h3><ul><li>Performance tends to ebb and flow for us all</li><li>How can you tell when motivation is taking its toll on performance?</li><li>What can you do about it?</li></ul><h3>Managing underperformers and the impact this has on others</h3><ul><li>The impact under-performers have on the team around them</li><li>Planning a conversation around under-performance</li></ul><h3>The performance management cycle</h3><ul><li>The cycle</li><li>The importance of managing performance daily</li><li>Why communicating expectations and standards up-front is essential</li><li>The importance of timely feedback</li><li>Understanding the causes of under-performance</li><li>Using and understanding competencies</li></ul><h3>Taking a coaching approach to performance management</h3><ul><li>How to build rapport and trust</li><li>Why a coaching approach is more effective than just 'telling it like it is'</li><li>The importance of effective questioning and active listening</li></ul><h3>Reviewing performance - how to give effective feedback</h3><ul><li>The importance of being specific when you give feedback</li><li>The importance of balance and feedback being for them, not you</li><li>Being clear in your feedback so they can use it to improve</li><li>The BIF-S model for delivering useful feedback</li></ul><h3>Setting SMART objectives</h3><ul><li>What are they?</li><li>Why use them?</li><li>How to cascade them</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li><li>Next steps</li></ul>


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Performance Management: In-House

<p>The ability to influence others and gain their co-operation in a positive way is an essential skill for HR. The reality is that we cannot NOT influence, the question is how we influence others and what would make us more effective.</p>
<p>This workshop will give you the opportunity to reflect on your impact at work and identify situations in which you would like to be more influential. You will learn how to achieve better results through creating rapport with others in order to win their support. You will learn a host of practical influencing tools and techniques. The workshop will focus on how you apply them in a wide range of situations and build flexibility so that you are able to adapt your approach with different people to get the best outcome.</p><ul><li>TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF USING POSITIVE INFLUENCE AT WORK AND YOUR PERSONAL INFLUENCING STYLE</li><li>TO GAIN CO-OPERATION AND SUPPORT FROM OTHERS BY BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RAPPORT</li><li>TO DEVELOP YOUR INFLUENCING SKILLS AND ENHANCE YOUR IMPACT AND CREDIBILITY</li><li>TO APPLY INFLUENCING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES PRACTICALLY WITHIN THE WORKPLACE</li><li>TO BE ABLE TO ADAPT YOUR APPROACH WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES TO GET THE BEST OUTCOME</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1. Introduction</h3><ul><li>Workshop objectives and benefits from attending</li><li>Participants' experience and confidence in this area</li><li>Personal objectives</li></ul><h3>2. Understanding influence</h3><ul><li>What is influence?</li><li>Positive influence and persuasion v manipulation and coercion</li></ul><h3>3. Characteristics of influential people</h3><ul><li>Exercise: Who influences you and how?</li><li>Sources of power: understanding your impact</li><li>Six key rules of influence: applying these practically at work</li><li>Building and maintaining credibility and trust</li></ul><h3>4. Influence and you</h3><ul><li>How do you influence others? Identifying what helps and what challenges</li><li>Identifying situations participants wish to be more influential in</li><li>Understanding the 'circle of influence'</li></ul><h3>5. Influencing styles</h3><ul><li>Different influencing styles and when to use them</li><li>Your preferred influencing style and behavioural flexibility</li><li>Group exercise to build flexibility in approach</li></ul><h3>6. A staged approach to influencing</h3><ul><li>Understanding the four key stages</li><li>Preparation, the conversation, the decision and action</li></ul><h3>7. Planning and preparation</h3><ul><li>A checklist</li><li>Determining importance and clear outcome</li><li>Identifying beliefs and the self-fulfilling prophecy</li><li>Understanding the other party / parties. Considering their outcomes, what they value, what might they raise / challenge?</li><li>Identifying which influencing style is most appropriate</li><li>Planning your approach</li><li>Group exercise: Application to participants' real situations</li></ul><h3>8. The conversation</h3><ul><li>A structured approach: key points to remember</li><li>Creating and maintaining rapport</li><li>Communicating effectively: questioning and listening skills</li><li>Assertiveness and influence</li><li>Reaching a decision and agreeing a way forward</li></ul><h3>9. The prove model</h3><ul><li>A model of persuasion</li><li>Group exercise: Application to participants' real situations</li></ul><h3>10. Handling challenging situations</h3><ul><li>Handling concerns and objections</li><li>Other challenging situations and strategies</li><li>Adapting your approach to different people and different</li></ul><h3>11. Next steps</h3><ul><li>Individual learning and actions</li><li>Group review and close</li></ul>


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Influencing Skills for HR

Bardsey

Leeds

Nottingham

Reading

<p align="justify" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">At times, everyone involved with a business will find themselves in a position where they are faced with difficult decisions. Being able to deal with these situations effectively and confidently is an important interpersonal skill.</p><p align="justify" style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);">This is especially true for managers who will be forced to make tough decisions on a regular basis, but need to ensure that the business continues to perform both during and after the difficult decisions have been made. The manner in which they approach and implement these decisions can sometimes be the difference between success and failure.</p><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Course Syllabus<p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The syllabus of the Dealing with Difficult Situations with Confidence course is comprised of four modules, covering the following:</p></h3><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Module One</h5><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Self Awareness</h5><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Attitude towards challenges - self-resilience</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Going into a challenging scenario - how to prepare</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognising the signs of contention</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Giving feedback constructively</li></ul><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Module Two</h5><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Having Difficult Conversations with Confidence</h5><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Behaviour labelling - preparing the approach</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Assertiveness techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dealing with a difficult issue focussing on behaviour &amp; consequences</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Keeping objective and professional throughout</li></ul><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Module Three</h5><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Examining Your Preferred Communication Style</h5><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognising the different communication styles</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Analysing your preferred style - Paradigm FitIn Profiler review</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identifying the most appropriate situations for each style</li></ul><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Module Four</h5><div style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><h5 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Helpful Interpersonal Skills</h5></div><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Effective questioning techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Active listening</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Body language</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognising and dealing with behaviours</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Displaying and creating positive attitudes</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remaining Assertive and in control</li></ul></div>

Dickson Training Ltd

Confidence

Dealing with Difficult Situations with Confidence

<p>This highly practical one-day workshop has been designed specifically to help maximise sales where customers make contact by telephone.</p><p>When customers contact us direct they have clearly already considered the possibility that they might buy from us, but we're still only half-way to making a sale. Unless we fully understand their needs and make it easy for them to buy, we may not secure the business.</p><p>This workshop concentrates on the telephone skills and techniques needed to achieve the most positive outcome in any inbound customer call. A combination of excellent customer service skills and savvy sales awareness techniques will increase our chances of a successful outcome for both parties.</p><p>The programme features the unique INBOUND model, to help remember the key principles for effective inbound telephone sales:</p><p><b>I</b>nitial impressions</p><p><b>N</b>eeds of the customer</p><p><b>B</b>ring them with you</p><p><b>O</b>pen up the conversation</p><p><b>U</b>nderstand the triggers</p><p><b>N</b>arrow down the solutions</p><p><b>D</b>ecision time!</p><p>The programme also covers how to deal with difficult calls and challenging people - after all, every complaint is a sales opportunity!</p>This programme will help participants:<ul><li>Create the perfect interaction with any customer making contact by telephone</li><li>Make every call count</li><li>Build rapport quickly in any situation</li><li>Handle difficult calls and challenging people</li><li>Create sustainable and profitable relationships</li><li>Increase your sales conversions</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 The inbound sales process</h3><ul><li>Each customer who contacts us will be at a different stage of the sales process. Some might be making general enquiries whilst others will be ready to commit, having made most of their decisions already. Sales and customer service people need to be ready to find out the stage the customer has reached before helping them to make the right decision for them</li></ul> <h3>2 Engaging with the customer</h3><ul><li>Having clarified where the customer is on their journey to making a purchasing decision, our next responsibility is to create and build a trusting relationship on both sides. This involves establishing rapport quickly to ease the communication process, thus enabling smooth transactions, both now and in the future</li></ul> <h3>3 Questioning and listening skills for gathering information</h3><ul><li>Developing these skills requires practice so that the communication becomes natural for the customer. This helps the customer to feel comfortable with us and work with us towards an effective solution. We discuss different types of question and how to use high-gain questions to uncover key information. Active listening will ensure that we can really help customers get what they need</li></ul> <h3>4 Overcoming objections and excuses</h3><ul><li>If we have followed the process properly and really understood the customer, then there should no further objections or barriers to completing the transaction. The reality is that there will still be the occasional issue that needs clarifying, so we need to prepare for possible objections and questions that customers might have. This includes probing objections so that we fully understand the customer's perspective before constructing suitable responses or solutions</li></ul> <h3>5 Gaining commitment and ending the call</h3><ul><li>Customers want to gain a solution to the issue they are facing and the sooner we can help them achieve that the better. Guiding the customer and helping them to believe in their own decision is part of our role. This section is dedicated to getting commitment all the way along the process, not just at the close</li></ul> <h3>6 Dealing with difficult and challenging situations</h3><ul><li>The realisation that everybody is different, with different personality types, different ways of looking at the world and different goals, is key to understanding sales. With this is mind we discuss these differences and how we adapt our approach to ease communication and maintain trust and understanding</li></ul> <h3>7 Action plans</h3><ul><li>Course summary and presentation of action plans</li></ul> 


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Sales Management

Dealing With Difficult Customers

Telesales

Telephone sales - inbound (In-House)

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Some people naturally possess an ability to sell and others over time develop their own style. We have created a highly practical course to give you the confidence and ability to sell over the phone or face to face. We focus the exercises, theory and discussion on your own job role and experiences to ensure you can return to the workplace to deliver tangible results.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This 2-day course is designed for individuals who are new to selling, those in a sales role but have not received any formal training, or professionals who would like to brush up and enhance their current selling skills and learn some new techniques.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course Syllabus</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The syllabus of the Essential Selling Skills course is comprised of seven modules, covering the following:</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module One</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Understanding the Customer</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The importance of good customer care</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Selling vs. selling attitude</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The reasons people buy</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adopting a positive approach</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module Two</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Self-Awareness</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understanding your selling style</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adapting your selling style to your customer</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understanding your customers buying style</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module Three</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Effective Communication and Rapport Building</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why does communication need to be effective?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actively listening to your customers&#39; needs</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Right question at the right time</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The impact of positive and emotive language</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module Four</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Taking a Consultative Approach</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Different styles of selling</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Taking a consultative approach to selling</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Preparation techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Buyer behaviour and motivation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A selling approach to match the buyers mind</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module Five</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Presenting the Solution</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Selling the benefits</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sales tool kit</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Unique sales points</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Advanced questioning techniques</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module Six</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Gaining Commitment</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognising and acting upon buying signals</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dealing with customers concerns</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">No means no?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to cope in stressful situations</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Module Seven</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Confirming the Sale</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Confirming or closing?</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Effective confirming techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Going the extra mile</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><article style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><section fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><section fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></section><main fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><section fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><article fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Benefits</h3><h6 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">For you as an individual</h6><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This course will increase your confidence and ability to sell, having provided you with tools and techniques to achieve maximum results. Delegates always leave with fresh ideas, energy and motivation to succeed.</p><h6 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">For an employer</h6><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">The attitude of the delegates and the results they deliver will speak for themselves. All techniques are easy to apply back into the workplace for an immediate impact.</p><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">What will I learn?</h3><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By the end of the course, participants will be able to:</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Appreciate the need for preparation before a sales appointment</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Effectively identify and meet needs with advanced questioning techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identify verbal and non-verbal buying signals</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Construct professional answers to questions and possible objections</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Present your products and/or services with the buyer in mind</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identify and use a selling style appropriate to capture the buyer&#39;s attention</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Recognise and overcome major objection types</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to apply effective confirmation techniques with the buyer in mind</li></ul><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Real Play Option</h3><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We offer an innovative solution to engage the learners and bring real negotiation and closing scenarios to life. We use actors who improvise scenarios which have been specified by the group.</p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The group is split the group into 2 sub-groups, one with the actor, the other with the trainer.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Each group has a brief and has to instruct their trainer/actor on how to approach the scenario supplied.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The actor and trainer perform the role play(s) as instructed by their respective teams; however during the action they can be paused for further recommendations or direction.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The outcome is the responsibility of the team(s) - not the performers.</li></ul><h3 style="color: rgb(17, 86, 166); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(17, 86, 166);">Scheduled Courses</h3><section fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p align="justify" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This course is not one that is currently scheduled as an open course, and is only available on an in-house basis. For more information please contact us.</p></section></article></div><div style="color: rgb(125, 125, 125); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(125, 125, 125);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></section></main></section></article></div>

Essential Selling Skills

<h2>Communication Skills: In-House</h2><p>Master the tools and techniques you need to communicate effectively, confidently and professionally in the workplace, whether writing emails, speaking over the phone (including conference calls) or meeting others face-to-face.</p><p>Learn how to express yourself even more concisely, precisely and clearly with a keen focus on knowing what you want to achieve, understanding the audience and considering the context.</p><p>The workshop focuses on the more challenging situations, such as when you need to be assertive, deliver bad news or win others over to your point of view.</p><p><strong>Delivery:</strong> Available as a full-day, half-day, bite-sized programme or webinar. Virtual and in-house delivery options. </p><ul><li>Learn how to select the appropriate communication medium (email, telephone or face-to-face)</li><li>Be able to organise and express messages relevant to the audience, objective and context</li><li>Know how to communicate more clearly, precisely and concisely in a range of situations</li><li>Practise new techniques to enhance your communication in the workplace</li><li>Understand how best to ask questions to establish needs and relevant information</li><li>Appreciate the impact of assumptions and know how to eradicate them</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>The communication cycle</h3><ul><li>The message we want to send isn't always what the receiver gets</li><li>Understanding the three channels of communication: visual / vocal / verbal</li><li>How challenges and misunderstandings can arise:<ul><li>When the visual disappears (telephone and teleconferencing)</li><li>When the vocal disappears (writing)</li></ul></li></ul><h3>Which medium when?</h3><ul><li>When is it best to put it in writing?</li><li>When should you use the phone?</li><li>When is face-to-face the best choice?</li><li>Issues to consider when you have difficult messages to deliver, when you want to influence and persuade, or when the situation is getting emotional</li></ul><h3>Four steps to communicating well</h3><ul><li>Thinking about your objective</li><li>Thinking about the recipient</li><li>Selecting the content</li><li>Making it compelling</li></ul><h3>Communicating effectively in writing</h3><ul><li>The importance of being clear, precise and concise</li><li>How to create a logical, coherent flow, make the content accessible and get the tone right - the A to B model</li><li>The power of short sentences and simple language</li><li>How to write emails that get read and get results</li><li>'Wimp talk' versus 'power talk' - why it's important to avoid softeners and qualifiers</li><li>How to write an effective email</li></ul><h3>Adapting your communication style</h3><ul><li>A question of style</li><li>What's yours? - questionnaire</li><li>How to adapt it</li></ul><h3>Telephone and teleconference skills</h3><ul><li>Using verbal and vocal channels</li><li>How to explain things clearly over the telephone</li></ul><h3>Assumptions and misunderstandings</h3><ul><li>Understanding the dangers</li><li>How 'mind-reading', making assumptions and jumping to conclusions can sabotage effective communication</li><li>Why you should avoid interrupting people when you think you know what they're going to say</li><li>The importance of suspending judgment, being patient and listening carefully</li><li>Making the content of your communication explicit rather than implicit</li></ul><h3>Precision questioning</h3><ul><li>How to eradicate assumptions and avoid misunderstandings</li><li>What makes a question powerful?</li><li>What questions should you avoid?</li><li>The problems with leading questions</li></ul><h3>Active listening</h3><ul><li>The power of active listening</li><li>How to show active listening</li></ul><h3>Communicating effectively face-to-face</h3><ul><li>1-to-1s and meetings</li><li>How to build and maintain rapport</li><li>Using body language and eye contact</li><li>Communicating confidently and assertively when stating your opinion, making requests or giving feedback</li></ul><h3>Difficult conversations</h3><ul><li>How to communicate well in difficult conversations</li><li>Effectively managing your emotional state</li></ul><h3>Actions and next steps</h3><ul><li>Review</li><li>Personal action planning</li></ul>


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Communication Skills: In-House

<p>Wouldn't sales be a 'walk in the park' without challenging customers? Why is it that some customers are so difficult to please, so quick to call 'foul' at the slightest blip and so mean with their gratitude after we've bent over backwards to accommodate them? Whether we are looking at prospective or existing customers, there is a toolkit for dealing with the most challenging of them.</p>This course will help participants:<ul><li>Use broad open questions to give the customer a platform for their opinions or issues</li><li>Improve listening skills to really understand what's behind the customer's challenging style</li><li>Probe specific phrases to show listening and earn deeper disclosure</li><li>Use silence to let challenging customers 'blow off steam'</li><li>Understand the negative impact of certain phrases on a challenging customer</li><li>Summarise effectively and reassure the customer of our understanding of their needs</li><li>Recognise the 'behaviour cycle' and avoid emotional escalation</li><li>Understand 'transactional analysis' and how to bring people from 'child' to 'adult' state</li><li>Create loyalty in customers who are slow to give trust</li></ul><section>
                    <h3>1 What makes a customer 'challenging'?</h3><ul><li>Why customers challenge us - understanding their drivers</li><li>'Wearing their shoes' - seeing things from their perspective</li><li>Understanding our own personality style</li><li>How to flex with a style that is different from our own</li><li>Ways to quickly recognise a customer's style</li><li>The benefits of flexing with a challenging customer's style</li></ul> <h3>2 Practical exercise - forum theatre</h3><ul><li>Participants take it in turns to deal with the trainer (who plays the role of the challenging customer)</li><li>Observers stop the action when they hear or see something they deem wrong</li><li>The participant in the seat gets a chance to use a suggested alternative line</li><li>The participant who makes the suggestion has the chance to occupy the seat and deliver it themselves</li><li>Frequent feedback from the trainer as to how the participant's words are making him feel</li><li>Opportunities to rewind the action if an ill-advised line is suggested and delivered</li><li>Flipchart for capturing what worked, what didn't work and why</li><li>Mehrabian principle - the importance of body language and tone over words used</li></ul> <h3>3 Questioning and listening skills</h3><ul><li>How to use open questions to get the customer talking</li><li>What questions to avoid and why</li><li>The use of pauses and silence to reduce tension and build trust</li><li>What listening is and what it isn't</li><li>Question funnelling - how to earn deeper disclosure through probing</li><li>The power of summary</li></ul> <h3>4 Transactional analysis explained</h3><ul><li>What is transactional analysis (TA)?</li><li>Exploring the TA states and why people behave in that way under pressure</li><li>How to bring challenging customers to 'adult' state to reduce tension</li><li>How 'parent' or 'child' behaviours can be inadvertently triggered</li><li>Understanding the 'behavioural cycle' and how to break it</li><li>Mini-role play 'vignettes' to demonstrate real time impact of ill-chosen words</li></ul> <h3>5 How to build trust with challenging customers</h3><ul><li>Techniques for placating current challenging customers</li><li>Methods that the participants have already used effectively - understanding why those methods worked and how other participants can model them</li><li>Participants' experiences of trust having been lost - understanding why those experiences had that negative outcome</li><li>How to 'go the extra mile' with challenging customers</li></ul><h4></h4> <h3>6 Bringing a 'real' challenging customer to life</h3><ul><li>Participants give the trainer a brief profile of a specific challenging customer of theirs</li><li>5-10 minute roleplay in which the trainer brings that individual to life</li><li>Observing participants - without interrupting - make notes on what is and isn't working</li><li>Trainer stops the action half-way through to give feedback on how he is feeling</li><li>Participant goes back into the roleplay having recalibrated their approach based on feedback</li><li>Observers give feedback on what did and didn't work</li><li>Trainer comes out of character to explain the impact of the participant's words and behaviours</li></ul> <h3>7 Wrap-up</h3><ul><li>Key learnings from each participant</li><li>Individual action planning - steps that can and will be implemented in the workplace</li></ul> 


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Action Learning Facilitator

Challenging Behaviour

Dealing with challenging customers (In-House)

<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Welcome</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Hello and welcome to our 1-day Introduction to Coaching.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Join Colin Brett, Founder, and Director of Training, who facilitates these free learning days online. If you select which day you&#39;d like to attend on our website we&rsquo;ll reserve and confirm a space for you.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Why Free?</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We recognise that signing up to a coach training involves work, time, effort, energy, finance and commitment. We thought the opportunity to join us for an experiential day may be useful in your decision-making process. Although the majority of those joining will be exploring training options, these days are also about &lsquo;coach education&rsquo; for those who would like to learn more about it&hellip;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">This day may be a good investment of your time if:</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You&rsquo;re curious about what coaching actually is</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You&rsquo;ve never tried it before, but would like to</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You want to change career direction</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Coach training would be an augment to your current skillset/role</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Coaching is an approach you&#39;d like to bring into your current organisation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You&rsquo;d like to gain a practical understanding of what coaching is and how to do it</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">An opportunity to explore our approach to training would be useful</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">What does the day offer?&nbsp;</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">It&rsquo;s a day-long experiential opportunity for you to explore coaching in a safe, engaged environment. You will leave with a clear understanding of what coaching is and isn&#39;t; how it sits along-side the other talking modalities; what it would be like to train with us, and whether professional coach training is for you.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">During the day we will work through topics such as:</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contracting and the importance of it</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Core Competencies (as set down by the International Coaching Federation)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Comparisons between Formal and Informal Coaching</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Definitions (as set down by the International Coaching Federation)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Practice Sessions (am and pm for comparison)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Live Coaching Demonstration and a Feedback Session based on it</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Levels of Listening</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Questioning</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q&amp;A Session</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">and more..!</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">About Coaching Development:</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.coachingdevelopment.com/" target="_blank" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">Coaching Development</a> has been established for over 20 years and is one of the premier international coach training institutes. Based in the UK, we have trained hundreds of coaches across the world and are proud to state that the majority of our graduates come to us via personal recommendation. The programmes we offer will equip you to practice in any sector: executive, business, individual, wellness, academia, fitness, therapeutic and many more; they are aimed at developing your skillset as a coach.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Our promise to you:</strong></p><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">No selling! We will not attempt to sell our programmes to you, this day is a safe learning space.&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We will be open and honest with you and tell you anything you want to know about us, our approach and our training.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This free day embodies Coaching Development&rsquo;s usual approach to training offering the deepest professional integrity, incorporating highly experiential, in-depth, adult-to-adult development.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our commitment to your learning - we will be clear about the objectives for the day and partner with you to meet these.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Opportunities to practice, take advantage of feedback, collaborate and experience practical translation of the skillset.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our training material is accredited by the International Coach Federation - the leading global body for professional coaching and coaches.</li></ul><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;If you&rsquo;d like an informal chat about any aspects of the introductory day or our training you&rsquo;re very welcome to give Isy a call on: 020 8541 1313 or visit : <a href="//www.coachingdevelopment.com" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">www.coachingdevelopment.com</a>&nbsp;</p>

Coaching Development Ltd

An ICF accredited coach training programme.

Coaching Development's FREE Introduction to Coaching Day

General Admission

ILM Level 3 Award in Leadership and Management

Online Course

Classroom Course

Birmingham

<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>Research suggests that teachers ask between 300 and 400 questions a day. Imagine that &ndash; it comes to roughly 2 questions every minute! That is a lot of questions. But there is something more important than the number of questions we ask, it is why we ask those questions, what type of questions we ask, how we ask those questions and the quality of feedback we give to pupils. When used effectively, questioning is a useful teaching and learning strategy. During this workshop we will discuss how questioning can be used effectively to assess, challenge and stretch pupils progress.</p>
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<p><strong>Who is this course for?</strong></p>
<p>Teachers, trainee teachers, teaching assistanst, learning support assistanst</p>
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<p><strong>What will be covered? </strong></p>
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<li>our brains and the types of questions we ask</li>
<li>how questions are used in classrooms</li>
<li>practical strategies to make questioning more effective</li>
<li>questioning to assess, stretch and challenge</li>
</ul>

Marell Consulting Limited

When used effectively, questioning is a useful teaching and learning strategy. During this workshop we will discuss how questioning can be used effectively to assess, challenge and stretch pupils progress.

Effective Questioning

This does not include the cost of travel which will be charged at £0.45 per mile for return travel to your school from our offices in Birmingham. 

Group fee for up to 20 people

<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They often say, &ldquo;Fake it until you make it.&rdquo; But is this advice truly effective? Many of us have experienced the discomfort of being that person standing alone in the corner of a networking event, holding a cup of coffee, grappling with anxiety, and wondering how to break into a group conversation, all while questioning whether we are interesting enough to be heard.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this webinar, we will address the concept of Networking Anxiety and how to overcome negative beliefs and mindsets and we will also discuss key techniques to boost your confidence. Finally, we will explore how to develop effective networking skills such as starting conversations, active listening, and making memorable impressions.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Join this webinar to gather some useful tips that will help you create meaningful connections.</p>

Bayfield Training

They often say, “Fake it until you make it.” But is this advice truly effective? Many of us have experienced the discomfort of being that person standing alone in the corner of a networking event, holding a cup of coffee, grappling with anxiety, and wondering how to break into a group conversation, all while questioning whether we are interesting enough to be heard.

In this webinar, we will address the concept of Networking Anxiety and how to overcome negative beliefs and mindsets and we will also discuss key techniques to boost your confidence. Finally, we will explore how to develop effective networking skills such as starting conversations, active listening, and making memorable impressions.

Join this webinar to gather some useful tips that will help you create meaningful connections.

Free Webinar | Demystifying Networking: Strategies for Overcoming Networking Anxiety

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	<h3><strong>Description</strong></h3>
<p><span>Learn the necessary skills for becoming an excellent orator with the <strong>Communication Course: Questioning and Listening</strong> course.</span></p>
<p><span>Communication plays a vital part in every sphere of your life. Whether you need a pass a job interview or need to request something from a person, appropriate language use is a must. The course is designed to enhance your communication skills.  The course starts by explaining the term 'questioning' and explains the reasons for asking a question. As the course lesson proceeds, you will understand the main body language cues, and signs while questioning. The role of emotional intelligence and the use of body languages at the time of questioning will also be discussed in the course. </span></p>
<p><span>Apart from these, the course illustrates 12 different types of questions along with the pros and cons, examples, and interpersonal implications of these questions. The active listening skills and the strategies of becoming a sound listener will also be explored in the course. Upon completion, you will able to respond appropriately to possible questions.</span></p>
<h3><b>Assessment:</b></h3>
<p>This course does not involve any MCQ test. Students need to answer assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Once the answers are submitted, the instructor will check and assess the work.</p>
<h3><strong>Certification:</strong></h3>
<p>After completing and passing the course successfully, you will be able to obtain an Accredited Certificate of Achievement. Certificates can be obtained either in hard copy at a cost of £39 or in PDF format at a cost of £24.</p>
<h3><b>Who is this Course for?</b></h3>
<p><strong>Communication Course: Questioning and Listening</strong> is certified by CPD Qualifications Standards and CiQ. This makes it perfect for anyone trying to learn potential professional skills.</p>
<p>As there is no experience and qualification required for this course, it is available for all students from any academic background.</p>
<h3><b>Requirements</b></h3>
<p>Our<b> Communication Course: Questioning and Listening</b> is fully compatible with any kind of device. Whether you are using Windows computer, Mac, smartphones or tablets, you will get the same experience while learning. Besides that, you will be able to access the course with any kind of internet connection from anywhere at any time without any kind of limitation.</p>
<h3><b>Career Path</b></h3>
<p>After completing this course you will be able to build up accurate knowledge and skills with proper confidence to enrich yourself and brighten up your career in the relevant job market.</p>
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					<td colspan="4"> Introduction to The Ultimate Guide to Questioning</td>
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					<td>Course Introduction</td>
					<td><span>FREE</span> </td>
					<td><span><i></i> 00:05:00</span></td>
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					<td colspan="4"> The Fundamentals - What &amp; Why</td>
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					<td>What is questioning?</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:02:00</span></td>
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					<td>What can questions do?</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:10:00</span></td>
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					<td>Why do we ask questions?</td>
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					<td colspan="4">Active listening</td>
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					<td>Are you listening?</td>
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					<td>Active Listening Exercise</td>
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					<td colspan="4">The 12 Different Types of Questions</td>
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					<td>Introduction to the 12 question types</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:03:00</span></td>
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					<td>Closed questions</td>
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					<td>Tag or tail questions</td>
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					<td>Open questions</td>
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					<td>Imagine questions</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:02:00</span></td>
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					<td>Funnel questions</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:02:00</span></td>
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					<td>Probing questions</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:06:00</span></td>
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					<td>Recall &amp; process questions</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:02:00</span></td>
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					<td>Socratic questions - 6 types</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:04:00</span></td>
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					<td>Leading Questions</td>
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					<td>Loaded questions</td>
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					<td><span><i></i> 00:02:00</span></td>
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					<td>Rhetorical questions</td>
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					<td>Empathetic questions</td>
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					<td colspan="4">How can people respond to questions?</td>
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					<td>8 possible question responses</td>
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					<td colspan="4"> Summary</td>
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					<td>Summary of Ultimate Guide To Questioning</td>
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					<td>Assignment - Communication Course: Questioning and Listening</td>
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John Academy

Listening Skills

Listening & Speaking

Professional Skills Course (PSC)

Interviewing Skills

Communication Course: Questioning and Listening

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<p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="font-size: 16px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">As with all ZandaX courses, you can return to re-run, review and revise as often as you like!</em></strong><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">(12 month unlimited single user license)</em></p><p style="font-size: 18px; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course Objectives:</strong></p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">After taking this course, you&#39;ll be able to:</p>
<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ask the right questions to discover what people think
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Use the Funnel to direct conversations to a satisfactory end point
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Apply the Five Levels of Listening to how you listen to others
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Listen actively during every conversation that&#39;s important to you
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Understand the basics of face-to-face communication
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Start off right when meeting people in person
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Set your own rules for success - and stick to them

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<p style="font-size: 18px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Learn the Core Skills That Will Supercharge Your Communication</strong></p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Our Questioning, Listening and Face-to-Face Communication course has been developed for anyone who wants to improve their core communication skills. And the skills we cover here are probably the most important you&#39;ll ever need.</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">This course will enable you to communicate clearly, confidently and effectively.</p>


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<p style="font-size: 18px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Target Audience:</strong></p>

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Anyone who wants to improve the core communication skills of questioning, listening and face to face communication, whether for themselves or for their staff, and for situations that cover work, home and friends.
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All concepts and tools are explained simply and helpfully, so there are no pre-course requirements: all you need is a desire to improve the communication skills that everyone needs!
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<p style="font-size: 18px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Career Path:</strong></p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Just think:</strong> how will you benefit when you know how to ask questions effectively, employ active listening and communicate effectively face-to-face?</p>

<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Learn how to get so much more from your communications when you employ the skills and knowledge we present in this course.</p>

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<p style="font-size: 18px; color: var(--text); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="font-size: 18px;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course Outline:</strong></p>

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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Course Introduction &amp; Workbook Download
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Verbal Skills and Asking Questions
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Open and Closed Questions
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> The Five Levels of Listening
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Active Listening
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> About Face-to-Face Communication
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Starting Off Right
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Rules for Success
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Key Takeaways
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Module Test
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<li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Course Wrap Up
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<p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">[NOTE: An interactive workbook is provided to support your learning]</p>

ZandaX

Active Listening

Learn the vital core skills of questioning and listening skills, and face-to-face communication.
Includes Verbal Skills & Asking Questions, Open & Closed Questions, The Funnel, Active Listening, Face‐to‐Face Communication, Rules for Success

Questioning, Listening & Face-to Face Communication

Caerphilly

<p style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);">This workshop will builds the skills and confidence of tutors, trainers and assessors, to enable them to have conversations about mental health and wellbeing with their learners.</p><p style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);">The course focuses on knowing how to better support your learners through effective communication will create an environment of trust and understanding. This course will enable you to:</p><div style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Build positive relationships and rapport with your learners</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Use a range of questioning techniques with your learners to have discussions about wellbeing</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Being able to use effective questioning techniques</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Develops active listening skills</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Maintain confidentiality and know how to make referrals</div></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);"><h2 style="color: var(--ast-global-color-2); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: var(--ast-global-color-2);">Further Information</h2><p style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);">&bull; Please ensure you have read our Terms and Conditions which include privacy, cancellation and course duration</p><p style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);">&bull; This course can be completed bilingually. Workshops are in English. Support and mentoring for assignments and practical units can be in Welsh.</p><p style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);">&bull; This course can take between 3 months and a year to complete. We work at a pace to suit you, and will encourage you to complete in a timely manner.</p><p style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);">&bull; You may be eligible for funding for this course. Please ask about this on application. (Funding is limited and eligibility criteria apply)</p></div><div style="color: var(--ast-global-color-5); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: var(--ast-global-color-5);"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr fr-original-style="" style="border-color: var(--border-muted); border-style: solid; clear: both; break-after: page; user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="color: var(--ast-global-color-2); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: var(--ast-global-color-2);">Benefits</h2><div style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);"><div style="color: rgb(75, 79, 88); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(75, 79, 88);"><ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Develops confidence in having conversations about wellbeing</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Demonstrates commitment to learners, their learning, safety and wellbeing (Professional Standards)</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Can be used towards CPD hours</div></li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(58, 58, 58);">Network with colleagues to build positive and collaborative relationships</div></li></ul></div></div>

This workshop will builds the skills and confidence of tutors, trainers and assessors, to enable them to have conversations about mental health and wellbeing with their learners.
The course focuses on knowing how to better support your learners through effective communication will create an environment of trust and understanding. This course will enable you to:
Build positive relationships and rapport with your learners
Use a range of questioning techniques with your learners to have discussions about wellbeing
Being able to use effective questioning techniques
Develops active listening skills
Maintain confidentiality and know how to make referrals



Further Information
• Please ensure you have read our Terms and Conditions which include privacy, cancellation and course duration
• This course can be completed bilingually. Workshops are in English. Support and mentoring for assignments and practical units can be in Welsh.
• This course can take between 3 months and a year to complete. We work at a pace to suit you, and will encourage you to complete in a timely manner.
• You may be eligible for funding for this course. Please ask about this on application. (Funding is limited and eligibility criteria apply)



Benefits
Develops confidence in having conversations about wellbeing
Demonstrates commitment to learners, their learning, safety and wellbeing (Professional Standards)
Can be used towards CPD hours
Network with colleagues to build positive and collaborative relationships

Panda Education and Training Ltd

Mental Health Awareness

Health & Wellbeing

Using a range a communication techniques, be able to support your learner's mental health and wellbeing. 

Supporting your learners’ wellbeing: A communication toolkit

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			<p><span>Listening is a conscious activity which requires attention. Rather than waiting to speak, you need to listen attentively to fully understand the other person. Remember, there is no point in asking a question if you do not intend to listen carefully to the answer!</span></p>
<p><span>The Communication: The Ultimate Guide to Questioning &amp; Listening is designed to help you think about how you communicate verbally. The course includes information on the processes involved and the steps you can take to help ensure that verbal or spoken messages are received as intended. Through this course you will learn, examine and be able to apply; what questions are, what they can do and why we ask them. As well as examining and practicing active listening and common body language cues. In additional you will be able to recognize and respond to both positive and negative question responses.</span></p>
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<li>Understands and can apply what questions can do</li>
<li>Unpick why we ask questions</li>
<li><span>Examine what active listening is</span></li>
<li><span>Undertake an active listening exercise</span></li>
<li><span>Appreciate the role of body language</span></li>
<li><span>Recognize the main body language cues and signs as they relate to questions &amp; answers</span></li>
<li><span>Use, understand and appreciate 12 question types</span></li>
<li><span>recognize, appreciate and use 12 different types of questions - including; the pros and cons, examples and interpersonal implications</span></li>
<li><span>Appreciate and respond appropriately to possible question responses</span></li>
<li><span>Appreciate the role of emotional intelligence</span></li>
<li><span>Download a series of 'Top Ten Questions'</span></li>
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