Face to Face Communication Skills
Course Aims:
This course will provide delegates with the opportunity to work with colleagues to review and develop their own customer service skills with a particular focus on face-to-face communication skills.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Recognise the impact, effect, and the importance of your body language, how you look and sound as well as the choice of words you use.
- Assess your listening skills and learn how to develop them further.
- Learn techniques which will stimulate listening in others and demonstrate that you are genuinely listening to them.
- Effectively build rapport and recognise how it can be destroyed.
- Manage and exceed customer expectations through effective questioning.
- Use the Questioning Funnel effectively.
- Keep conversations on track for a more efficient way to deal with others without reducing the service that you provide.
- Build an action plan for the on-going improvement of communication skills.
Duration/Location:
- 1 day/In house or consultant facilitated virtual course / online training session(s)
Course Contents:
- Course objectives and agenda
- Delegate objectives
- Open discussion to identify individual communication challenges and the impact these challenges have on your success.
- Learn about the impact of what we say & how we say it – taking into consideration the words we use, the tone we say it in and what our body language is subconsciously saying.
- Take a quick/fun Listening Test to evaluate your listening skills
- What can you do to stimulate others to listen to you?
- What can you do to create a fantastic and long lasting impression by building rapport and communicating well?
- Questioning skills are more than just asking Open and Closed questions – Open is not always good and Closed is not always bad
- Learn about the Questioning Funnel to enable you to ask the right type of question at the right time in a conversation
- Develop a tried and tested format to structure your conversations, to enable a Win: Win result for all.
- Transferring learning back to the workplace
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