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Communication for life

Learn how to improve your communication & relationships with over 50 practical tips & strategies


Makin It Happen

Summary

Price
£49.99 inc VAT
Study method
Online, On Demand What's this?
Duration
2.3 hours · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification
Certificates
  • Reed courses certificate of completion - Free

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Overview

Do you want to be a better communicator?

Do you want to learn more about communication skills and how to apply these in your life?

Do you want to understand your own communication and relationship challenges and identify the areas where you want to improve?

This course is a practical, action oriented course designed to give you the tools, tips and strategies to improve your communication and relationships in your life.

The course aims to give you an insight into communication and relationship skills and the challenges of communication and building relationships. You will understand your own communication and relationship challenges and identify the areas where you want to improve. The course will explain the core communication skills and how you can apply these in your life and give you a range of communication tools, tips & strategies to use in your life to be a better communicator. As you go through the course you will develop a personalised communication action plan to improve your communication and relationships going forward.

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It is not a theoretical or academic course on communication.

Curriculum

8
sections
27
lectures
2h 16m
total
    • 2: Lecture 1 Course introduction 05:23
    • 3: Lecture 2 About the tutor 02:10
    • 4: Lecture 3 The cost of poor communication & relationships 05:42
    • 5: Lecture 4 Communication challenges part 1 04:58
    • 6: Lecture 5 Communication challenges part 2 04:03
    • 7: Lecture 6 Your communication analysis 06:08
    • 8: Lecture 7 Core communication skills tips & strategies, introduction 02:48
    • 9: Lecture 8 Communication & building rapport 09:41
    • 10: Lecture 9 Listening 07:26
    • 11: Lecture 10 Asking questions 07:30
    • 12: Lecture 11 Non verbal communication 06:47
    • 13: Lecture 12 Emotional intelligence 06:20
    • 14: Lecture 13 Intervention & learning styles 08:04
    • 15: Lecture 14 Influencing, intuition & positivity 06:43
    • 16: Lecture 15 Core communication skills tips & strategies, summary 01:37
    • 17: Lecture 16 Applying the core communication skills tips & strategies introduction 02:38
    • 18: Lecture 17 Communicating in groups 05:18
    • 19: Lecture 18 One on one communicating 07:17
    • 20: Lecture 19 Being confident 04:24
    • 21: Lecture 20 Dealing with difficult people 04:21
    • 22: Lecture 21 Improving relationships 05:46
    • 23: Lecture 22 Public speaking 04:34
    • 24: Lecture 23 Communicating effectively at work 05:48
    • 25: Lecture 24 Applying the core communication skills tips & strategies, summary 01:35
    • 26: Lecture 25 Your communication plan 02:11
    • 27: Lecture 26 Course summary 01:24

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Description

What are the course aims?

The course aims to:

* Give you an insight into communication and relationship skills and the challenges of communication and building relationships.

* Look at your own communication and relationship challenges and identify the areas where you want to improve.

* Provide you with a range of communication tools, tips & strategies to use in your life to be a better communicator.

* Look at the core communication skills and how you can apply these in your life.

* Enable you to develop a personalised communication action plan to improve your communication and relationships going forward.

What is included in the course?

The course has the following sections:

* Introduction: including an introduction to the course and the tutor

* Communication costs & challenges: including looking at the costs of poor communication and relationships and the challenges of communication and relationships in life.

* Your communication analysis, including an exercise to look at your own personal communication challenges.

* Core communication skills – tips & strategies: including looking at a range of core communication skills tips & strategies. This section also includes an exercise to understand what you are going to do differently to improve your communication skills.

* Applying the communication skills – tips & strategies: including looking at a range of tips & strategies in how you can apply the core communication skills in your life. This section also includes an exercise to understand what you are going to do differently in applying the communication skills.

* Your communication plan: including your own communication challenges and action plans to improve your communication and in applying the communication skills.

* Course summary: including a short summary of the course

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning.

The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.

Developing your own communication plan

There are exercises to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised communication action plan. These include understanding your own communication and relationship challenges and what actions you are going to take and what strategies you will follow to improve your communication and relationships in your life. You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the exercises.

What will you cover on the course and what will you learn?

As you go through the course you will be looking at your own communication and relationship challenges, the impact on you and your life, how to improve your own communication skills and how to apply these communication skills in your life.

By the end of the course you will have a better understanding of your own communication, know what your communication and relationship challenges are, have an action plan for improving your communication skills and an action plan as to how you will apply these communication skills in your life.

Even if you are not finding communication difficult at the moment, you will have the opportunity to review you and your work and to decide on actions to enhance your communication and relationship skills and their application.

Important notes and more about the course

If you are already very knowledgeable about communication, this course may not be for you. It includes an insight into communication skills and the challenges of communication and relationships, practical communication tools, tips and strategies that you can use to be a better communicator in your life and an opportunity to develop your own communication plan, some or all of which you may already know a lot about.

By signing up for this course you can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone.

You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer.

You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.

Good luck

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for you if you:

* Are currently having communication and relationship challenges in your life.

* Want to learn more about communication and relationship skills and how to apply these skills in your life.

Requirements

An open mind to learning, development & self improvement.

Questions and answers

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Certificates

Reed courses certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

Will be downloadable when all lectures have been completed

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