Effective Communication Skills Training Course

Effective communication skills are essential for every employee, especially managers who need strong communication skills in order to lead people.

If you’re looking to improve your communication skills in order to build your confidence and enhance your ability to instruct, motivate and develop better relationships with colleagues, this 1-day course is for you.

It will teach you a range of tools and techniques that you can use in the workplace to develop your communication and the way you interact and work with others.

On this Effective Communication Skills you will, through theory and a series of practical exercises, learn how you can improve your communication skills using different tools and techniques.

Gain knowledge about your own, and others behavioural styles, how these can influence communication as well as other barriers to communication.

You will learn techniques to improve communication such as questioning, active listening and assertiveness skills and be able to take these away and implement in your day to day.

A delegate manual will be provided for you to complete through out the course for you to reference after the training as well as 3 months online support for any follow up questions.

By the end of the course you will:

• How to set clear guidelines for effective communication skills in the workplace
• Understand the everyday barriers to communication
• Appreciate the important elements of effective face-to-face communication and how to use them to be a confident communicator
• Develop questioning skills in order to obtain the information that you need
• Increase active listening skills so that you clearly understand messages
• Recognise different personality types and how to adapt your communication style
• Learn how to be assertive so that you influence and persuade people whilst building and maintaining rapport

Our 5-star rated Communication Skills training courses are practical courses with small class sizes, and a maximum of 6 delegates, allowing plenty of time to interact with the trainer and ask questions!

These are held as in-person classroom courses or as live, online courses (over Zoom). All courses run from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, with plenty of breaks.

Scheduled Effective Communication Skills Courses

Our scheduled public Communication Skills Courses are run in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Online. Dates for these can be found below.

Private / Bespoke Communication Training

Are you looking for in-house Communication Skills training for yourself or your team?

We run private one-to-one and group Communication training at our training centres, at your premises or at a location to suit you, anywhere in the UK. These can also be held Online.

The content of our In-house Communication skills courses can be tailored to your requirements or the needs of your team.

For more information see the Private Course tab further down the page for more information

This course is targeted at any member of staff who wants to maximise the impact of their communication skills and whose work depends on successful interaction with others.

The course is also suitable for people who are looking to improve how they communicate and interact with others in a non-work environment.

• Run by a specialist communication skills trainer with over 10 years' experience in running communication skills courses
• This course is limited to 6 places so you are guaranteed personal support throughout the course
• Convenient locations in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham and Online
• High-quality course notes and support material
• Lunch and refreshments provided
• Certificate of Achievement
• This Effective Communications Training course has been rated 5 Stars by previous delegates