Course Highlights
This communication course for technical professionals will:
- Outline the importance of developing strong communication skills.
- Identify communication barriers and strategies for overcoming them.
- Share best practices for messaging effectively across channels.
- Provide a communication styles assessment.
- Offer multiple tools and frameworks for improving listening, questioning, message management, and negotiation.
- Explain behaviors that contribute to an effective team environment.
Course Overview
This engaging workshop is tailored for technical professionals such as IT experts, engineers, and scientists who want to enhance their communication skills to build stronger relationships, navigate challenges, and improve workplace collaboration. While technical expertise is essential, the ability to convey ideas clearly, listen effectively, and adapt communication styles is equally important in technical fields.
Participants will explore fundamental communication concepts and acquire practical tools and techniques to address common communication challenges. Through a blend of assessments, group exercises, and interactive activities, participants will gain insights into their personal communication styles and learn strategies for fostering understanding, reducing misunderstandings, and delivering impactful messages.
The course offers actionable takeaways, ensuring participants leave with skills they can immediately apply to workplace scenarios, such as explaining complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders, advocating for projects, managing conflict, and building alignment within and across teams. By emphasizing both the mechanics of communication and the interpersonal skills that drive it, this workshop delivers a comprehensive, hands-on experience tailored to the unique needs of technical professionals.
The following outline highlights some of the course’s key learning points. As part of your training program, we will modify content as needed to meet your business objectives. Upon request, we will provide you with a copy of the participant materials prior to the session(s).
Program Objectives
At this program’s conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Explain how communication works and where breakdowns most often occur.
- Use questions to reduce regular noise.
- Leverage emotional intelligence and empathy to reduce emotional noise.
- Recognize triggers and hot buttons.
- Use “I” statements.
- Demonstrate empathy.
- Rephrase blunt communication.
- Choose an appropriate communication channel based on the goals of a message.
- Adapt to different communication styles.
- Tailor messages to different audiences.
- Present big-picture information as well as detailed data.
- Demonstrate how to use listening and questioning skills to understand requirements and generate buy-in.
- Support different types of managers.
- Lobby for projects and sell ideas.
- Identify actions and attitudes that promote teamwork.
- Explain the difference between intent and impact and what to do when they are not in alignment.
Workshop Modules
- The Process: How Communication Works
- Two Keys: Emotional Intelligence and Empathy
- Avoiding the Provocative: Tell It Like It Is, Differently
- Choosing The Right Channel: Understanding Options
- Building Personal Credibility: Understanding Different Communication Styles
- In or Out of the Weeds: Tailoring Messages to Different Audiences
- Avoiding Miscommunication: Confirming Understanding
- Navigating Office Politics and Other Challenges: Getting What You Want
Target Audience
This workshop is designed for groups that want to:
- Better understand soft skills and how to leverage them.
- Develop their team’s ability to work with each other and other departments.
- Explore solutions to challenges technical professionals often encounter at work.
Suggested Format
- One-Day Onsite Training Course
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