Effective Communication: Verbal Communication

This 3 hour workshop looks how you can improve your verbal communication by understanding and practicing the basic principles that we sub-consciously use every day. Being able to practise the skills of verbal communication can make it easier for you to get your message across, and to better understand others.

By the end of the course you will:

• Know how to actively listen
• Be able to use different styles of questions to learn more from others
• Be able to get your message across more effectively by using verbal dexterity

Topics covered:

• Strengths and weaknesses of verbal communication
• Question styles
• Active listening
• Listening for the values and beliefs behind attitude
• Sensory language
• Using rapport
• Basics of rhetoric

All postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers

To make postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers more effective at their verbal communication.

Workshop including discussion and skills practice in small groups

3 hours

Twice per term