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How we interact and communicate with others is essential in determining how healthy our relationships will be, at work and socially. Building our interpersonal skills can, undoubtedly, improve our relationships. In the workplace, having good ‘people skills’ is seen as a cornerstone of business success. Therefore, these training course materials are suitable to develop the skills of people in a variety of different roles.
Training course contents:
Help develop the ‘people skills’ of your employees with our Interpersonal Skills Training Course Materials
Being an effective communicator is not a skill that we are all born with. However, it is a skill that can be developed and nurtured over time. Interpersonal skills are often referred to as ‘people skills’ because those that have mastered the art are able to relate well to other people and often do well in their careers because of this. Interpersonal skills are also one of the key criteria interviewers look for when recruiting for a role. The ability to be able to ‘fit in’ with a team are often just as important as a person’s ability to do the job. This demonstrates how important communicating and being able to relate to others is to the success of a business.
Perhaps you’re looking to improve the working relationships within your team and how everyone interacts. Or you want to include interpersonal skills training as part of management and supervisor development. Whatever your need, Trainer Bubble provides you with a comprehensive interpersonal skills training course to make your life easy.
Why is running this interpersonal skills course a good idea?
Well, just imagine if your participants were better able to:
- Appreciate how their communication style affects specific situations and the people around them.
- Identify how to adapt their behaviour and communicate effectively for each scenario.
- Create a positive work environment through improved awareness of personality styles.
- Improve their self-awareness when communicating and reduce office friction.
- Build rapport to enrich relationships.
- Persuade and influence others with a focused communication approach.
Ultimately these training course materials allow you to nurture a workforce that is able to appreciate the impact their communication style has on those around them and to adapt accordingly.
Why use training materials created by Trainer Bubble?
- When you’re busy or under pressure at work, you save time and stress by using our ready-made professional training materials.
- Our materials come with no restrictions: you can edit content, add your company branding and use as many times as you wish.
- Whether you’re an experienced trainer or nervous first-timer, our training materials give you everything you need to deliver a confident and successful training session: PowerPoint slides, workbooks, session plans, activities/exercises and detailed trainer notes.
- There is no need to wait for delivery. You’ll receive the full course pack in your inbox instantly.
- With a mix of practical exercises and trainer led material, your attendees will remain engaged throughout, while you take credit for a professional and effective training course.
- And when budgets are tight but you still need results, Trainer Bubble courses are great value for money. Train a whole team or even a whole company for much less than the cost of sending a single participant on a standard training course.
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The main content of the training course materials…
These Interpersonal Skills training course materials will help develop your participants ability to adapt their behaviour and approach based on the situation and the response that they get. They’ll learn how their behaviour affects others when they communicate and how best to overcome barriers to effective communication.
The main content of the training course is as follows…
Introduction, Objectives and Expectations – Setting the scene for the training intervention, understanding the needs and wants of the participants and using an activity to better understand personalities and get to know each other better.
Attitude and Behaviour – Learning how our attitude affects our behaviour and the impact this has on people around us. Exploring our perceptions and how this can influence how we communicate and relate to people.
The Definitions – Reviewing different communication terminology; specifically around Transactional Analysis.
Transactional Analysis – An Introduction – Exploring scenarios to help understand the theory of Transactional Analysis and how it impacts communications.
The Ego States – Sharing personal stories of interactions and relating these experiences to TA theory. Taking a questionnaire to assess the current preferred ego state of the participants. A full review of each ego state, how it works and the method of identifying the verbal and non-verbal clues of the different states. An activity that helps participants identify the states.
Types of Transaction – Strengthening interpersonal skills through the knowledge of interpersonal skills. Role play scenarios to help embed the learning. Followed by a full summary of the learning.
Language Patterns – Identifying how certain words can generate a negative or positive response from the people we are communicating with and how we can adapt our language to ensure a more positive response.
Rapport – Building rapport, which helps to develop mutual understanding, build bridges and influence those around us. Using subtle techniques to help develop this skill.
Kipling Questions – Communicating with clarity to help the other person filter information and get to the specifics. Getting through non-specific information by asking the correct questions.
Strokes – Appreciating the need to nurture relationships through positive ‘strokes’ and relating this to Transactional Analysis. Identifying how often (or not) we provide positive strokes currently and what we can do to improve this.
Essential Influencing Skills – They key elements that will help us influence others through communication and how to apply them.
The Principles of Persuasion – Providing more detail to influencing others, using some established techniques and theories. Includes a YouTube video to cover the key points and practice to help embed the learning.
Summary and Action Plan – A summarising activity and referral to action plans.
As with all Trainer Bubble training course materials, this course is designed to be interactive and engaging with activities and exercises throughout.
Objectives:
At the end of this Interpersonal Skills training course your participants will be able to:
- Describe interpersonal skills and behaviour cycles
- Apply the concepts of transactional analysis
- Use language patterns to show positivity
- Build rapport to help build positive relationships
- Use the principles of persuasion to influence others
