The  LEARNING CENTER

C O M M U N I C A T I O N   S K I L L S
 
In today's working environment the average person will change jobs nine times in a lifetime. Holding the right mindset in these dynamic times is vital to career advancement and personal fulfillment. You must know how to market yourself and your unique skills to key employers, then you must know how to interview and negotiate the best job offer.
 
Your personal career coaching session includes the following career guidance topics:

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Communication Skills for Tongue-Tied Professionals (day)
Convey the right signals, signs, and sentiment


Most of us want to get our point across with the least amount of effort, but often miscommunication means we must repeat our messages to correct our errors. We communicate through sight, sound, sensitivity, and silence. Discover how to have congruency between the different modes of communication? Are you sending mixed signals, vague signs, and ambiguous statements? Find out how to focus three types of communication lenses to send and receive clear and concise messages.

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Delivering Effective Feedback (4 hours)
Know how the right words and actions can create the grandest outcomes

Remember that person in your life that encouraged you to excel? That mentor, teacher, and leader knew how to give constructive and inspiring feedback. Feedback is insightful guidance that nurtures growth. Effective feedback improves performance by realigning focus and capitalizes on setting positive expectations. The right feedback will create heroes in your family and in your work team. Properly delivered feedback enhances and builds lasting interpersonal relationships, aligns goals, and builds trust.

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Communicating with the Media (4 hours)
Learn Techniques for Conducting Interviews With the Media

After completing over 1000 interviews over the last nine years, Linda Strasburg, a Salt Lake City talk show host, is very clear on on what makes a guest memorable and informative. If you are a professional business person who often find yourself giving impronptu interviews, granting question and answering sessions, or appearing as a guest on radio programs to promote your business and viewpoint, you will benefit from taking this information packed, 4-hour course on dealing with the media. You will feel more positive about your next encounter with the media.
 
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