Effective Communication Skills

Fr., 08.12.2023, 4 pm - 8 pm
Sa., 09.12.2023, 9 am - 5 pm

Communicating your ideas effectively and understanding another person’s message correctly is pertinent to success in any career. This workshop is designed to improve your interpersonal communication skills and to ensure that your ideas are heard. Through a series of exercises, activities and peer reviews, you will be coached in the practical tools necessary to communicate with others dynamically, professionally, and persuasively and you will practice skills necessary to understand and to respond to others’ ideas productively.

During this workshop, you will learn how to:

- improve your ability to communicate and strengthen your image
- become more confident that you understand another person’s message correctly
- identify different interpersonal communication styles and techniques
- avoid conflict by understanding personality types
- enhance your ability to listen through empathic listening techniques
- produce a great first impression by projecting a confident image
- interact effectively through body language
- create a stronger connection with your listeners so that they can better hear and retain your message
- build rapport and establish creditability with others
- provide positive and constructive feedback, promote ideas, and accept constructive criticism
- recognize cross-cultural misunderstandings, examine cultural assumptions and manage inter-cultural conflicts.

Instructor: Dr. Teresa Burns

IMPORTANT: These seminars are paid for by the German taxpayers so that you can benefit from them for free. Please register only if you will definitely participate. If you register for a seminar and are absent on the seminar day without excuse you will be blocked from participating in future seminars.”

Comments on former seminars: https://www.tf.fau.de/files/2020/08/feedbackcommunicationonline.pdf

Veranstaltungsort:
K2-119 - Seminarraum, Erwin-Rommel-Straße 60, 91058 Erlangen.

Anmeldungsinformationen:
https://www.apps.tf.fau.de/seminaranmeldung/?sem=599

Sprache:
Englisch

Kontakt:
TF -Studierendeninformation/-beratung
tf-stib@fau.de