Description
All managers, team leaders, business owners and employees need to conduct difficult conversations at some time or another. Although difficult conversations cannot be avoided, they can be successfully managed to achieve the most positive outcomes.
Understanding, empathy and professional skill development are necessary qualities that help to keep you in control of difficult conversations before, during and after them so that you can achieve the desired outcomes. Having a good understanding of your own personality type, as well as knowing how to best interact with other personality types, is a specific skill taught in the course.
This highly valuable and engaging course empowers professionals to handle difficult conversations with ease to achieve professional success and improve interactions amongst staff.
What you will learn
- Establish the intent of a conversation
- Listen actively
- Use probing techniques
- Ask the right questions at the right time
- Establish the purpose of a difficult conversation
- Create a conversation template
- Create a personalised action plan
- Use communication skills to influence and control
- Maintain safety in a conversation
- Choose an appropriate place for a conversation
- Understand and analyse the other person
- Stay in control of the conversation throughout