McTimothy Associates

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Effective Communication Skills Development

Why Attend

Whether you communicate under pressure, manage challenges in interpersonal relationships, or look to build lasting rapport, your communication style and competence are the cornerstones for improving your chances of achieving your objectives.

This course aims to assist you in becoming a more effective communicator by learning how to identify people’s thinking patterns and preferred learning methods, and by tailoring your communication accordingly. Getting a better understanding of how you communicate with others as well as how others communicate with you will result in improved business and personal relationships. Moreover, this course will help you fine-tune the way you interact with others, which can be the key to your workplace and overall success.

$ 128.49

Event Date: 21/03/2023 – 22/03/2023

Total:

DAY 1

Defining effective communication

  • Communication: definition and characteristics
  • Myths about communication
  • Communication functions
  • The four laws of communication
  • Evolution of communication
  • Communicating for results
  • Understanding elements of communication
  • The element of noise
  • Mehrabian’s 55-38-7 rule
  • Overcoming communication anxiety and other obstacles
  • Communication etiquette

The art of listening

  • Common listening issues
  • Guidelines for effective listening
  • Effective listening and paraphrasing techniques
  • Understanding different listening styles: active versus passive styles
  • Improving the information recall rate
  • Assessing personal listening profiles

Mastering body language

  • The art of body language
  • Components of non-verbal communication
  • The power of appearance
  • Communicating through colors
  • Evaluating your body language skills
  • Eliciting thinking patterns through eye movement
  • Building rapport using body language

DAY 2

Diction, Pronunciation, Enunciation, and Elocution  

Introduction to Received Pronunciation/General American

  • Pronunciation Skill Assessment
  • Perception, Visual Representation, and Production of English Speech Sounds

Unvoiced and Voiced Consonantal Sounds

  • Short and Long Vowel Sound Comparison

English Speech Sound Values

  • Major Categories of English Vowels

Principles of Transcription

  • “S and Ed” Marker
  • Linking R and Dark $Light L

English Syllabic Consonantal Sounds 

  • Consolidation Exercises

English Stressed and Unstressed Form

  • Stress Pattern
  • English Heteronyms
  • English Intonation
  • Commonly Mispronounced Words
  • Phonetic Transcription of Passages
  • Features of RP
  • Reading Exercise
  • Reading of Phonetic Transcription
  • Speaking Right

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