Communication Skills

Effective Communication

Enhance the strength of your communication in high-stake conversations with our two-day course. You'll focus on your active listening, responding, and influencing skills to confidently navigate challenging scenarios with agility and positive outcomes.

Locations Sydney, Melbourne
Course Fee $2,725.00 - $2,860.00
Duration Two-Day

Effective Communication

Overview

Gain the practical skills to better handle challenging workplace conversations and establish stronger business relationships with this popular two-day course. 

This highly popular communication training has a deep focus on active listening, active responding, and high-order communication skills such as thinking on your feet and influencing stakeholders. Effective Communication is a course like no other, as our world-class NIDA tutors work with you to navigate challenging scenarios and pursue positive communication outcomes. 

Prepare to learn practical skills to meet every interaction with agility, curiosity, and confidence. 

This course was previously known as ‘Creating Excellent Communicators’. 

UPCOMING CLASSES
Tue 25 Feb – Wed 26 Feb 2025
NIDA Kensington, Sydney
9:00am – 5:00pm AEDT
$2,860
Thu 27 Mar – Fri 28 Mar 2025
NIDA Melbourne, Southbank
9:00am – 5:00pm AEDT
$2,860

Looking for something custom?

We can deliver this course in-house at your organisation or tailor this course for your teams needs.

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Course Components

  • Identify objectives and learn to plan for successful communication scenarios
  • Develop your voice and body for enhanced physical presence, and effective communication in the workplace.
  • Examine strategies to manage challenging communication scenarios at work.
  • Explore obstacles to communication, and strategies to overcome them.
  • Plan for challenging communication scenarios and receive feedback and guidance.

Outcomes

  • Understand and review your communication style.
  • Demonstrate enhanced physical presence, energy, strength and confidence.
  • Practise using your voice for effective communication.
  • Display strategies to manage challenging communication scenarios at work, and greater awareness in communicating with others.
  • Build on improvisation techniques to help you confidently respond in the moment.

The variety of information that was taught and its applicability to a work scenario. Through the use of examples and role playing scenarios, I could easily see these techniques being used in a work setting and being very helpful.

Lachlan Siu

Finance Business Partner, IRESS Technology

Frequently Asked Questions

Come prepared with a challenging communication scenario in mind, which is current and pertinent to your work.

Some of the communication scenarios that you can workshop in this course include:

  • Job interview techniques
  • Giving constructive criticism to employees
  • Hosting meetings
  • Asking for a pay rise
  • Presenting information to varying stakeholders

NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.