Effective Communication Skills

Language:
English

Fr., 17.01.2025, 4 pm - 8 pm
Sa., 18.01.2025, 9 am - 5 pm

Communicating your ideas effectively and understanding another person’s message correctly is pertinent to success in any career. This workshop is designed to improve your interpersonal communication skills and to ensure that your ideas are heard. Through a series of exercises, activities and peer reviews, you will be coached in the practical tools necessary to communicate with others dynamically, professionally, and persuasively and you will practice skills necessary to understand and to respond to others’ ideas productively.

During this workshop, you will learn how to:

- improve your ability to communicate and strengthen your image
- become more confident that you understand another person’s message correctly
- identify different interpersonal communication styles and techniques
- avoid conflict by understanding personality types
- enhance your ability to listen through empathic listening techniques
- produce a great first impression by projecting a confident image
- interact effectively through body language
- create a stronger connection with your listeners so that they can better hear and retain your message
- build rapport and establish creditability with others
- provide positive and constructive feedback, promote ideas, and accept constructive criticism
- recognize cross-cultural misunderstandings, examine cultural assumptions and manage inter-cultural conflicts

Comments on former seminars: https://www.tf.fau.de/files/2020/08/feedbackcommunicationonline.pdf

Contact:
TF -Student information/advice
tf-stib@fau.de

IMPORTANT: These seminars are paid for through student grants so you can use them free of charge. Please only register if you will definitely take part. If you register for a seminar and are absent without excuse on the day of the event, you will be blocked from attending all future seminars.