Course Info
Communication and interpersonal effectiveness ultimately ensures the success of every professional in a corporate environment. By attending this 2-days training, participants will be able to sharpen their interpersonal and communication competencies when dealing with others at the workplace. They will become interpersonally receptive and sensitive towards others and maximize their interactions with both internal and external parties.
What Will I Learn From This Course?
Understand the importance of effective interpersonal skills at workplace
Sharpen their current interpersonal skills when dealing with others during face-to-face encounters
Learn various personality types and suit one’s communication strategy with them so as to maximise the outcomes
Enhance their interpersonal interactions with individuals, small groups and even customers
Carry out a self-assessment on their current interpersonal effectiveness and propose ways to enhance them
Target Audience
Executive, Managerial level.
Methodology
This is an intensely interactive workshop that utilizes many practical, experiential learning techniques and team thinking approaches. Consists of lectures, case studies, and group discussions.
Course Outline for This Programme
Importance of Interpersonal Communication Skills
- What is interpersonal communication skills?
- Interpersonal skills and professional effectiveness
- Common pitfalls among professionals at workplace
- Workplace success and interpersonal effectiveness
Interpersonal Communication Skills Basics
- Types of interpersonal interactions at workplace
- Common problems faced by professionals
- Interpersonal communication with subordinates
- Factors that influence interpersonal effectiveness
360 Degrees Interpersonal Communication
- Communicating with bosses
- Communicating with subordinates
- Communicating with peers
- Communicating with external parties
Behavioural Elements & Interpersonal Skills
- The DISC Personality profiling
- 3 types of communication styles
i. Passive
ii. Assertive
iii. Aggressive - Merits of each communication style
Communication Skills Components
- Essentials of listening skills
- Effective feedback skills
- Empathizing with others
- Rapport building skills and reframing skills
Communicating to Influence Others
- The purpose of influence
- The laws of influence
- Impact and influence elements
- Influencing strategies
Personal Action Plan
- Determining areas of improvement
- Developing personal action plan
Nagappan is an enthusiastic and dynamic trainer, consultant, author and motivation speaker. He has trained an extensive number of business and technical professionals, lecturers, students, and parents on a variety of areas. His personal mission is to train, educate, motivate and empower individuals, teams and organizations in achieving excellence. Nagappan’s areas of training specialty includes a wide spectrum of soft skills. He is the author of the book “The Negotiating Edge: Strategies to create a win-win outcome.”
He has more than 18 years of hands-on experience in education and training, in most of which have been spent on “people development”. He had served as the Group Training Manager for several well-diversified public-listed manufacturing and service companies in Malaysia, where his focus were on personal, professional and organizational development training. Besides that, he has also held the position of Director of Studies for a leading IT educational institution in Malaysia.
Nagappan had obtained his Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Management and Information Technology from the United States (USA) and a MBA from Charles Sturt University (Australia). In addition, he had also undergone a practitioner certification training in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), a modern communication psychology certification, in Australia. He actively uses the concepts of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and ALP (Accelerated Learning Principles) in all training programs that he conducts to enhance the learning outcomes and effectiveness among the participants.
A Certified NLP Practitioner with the IANLP (International Association of NLP, Australia), Nagappan conducts various training programs on personal, professional and organizational development throughout the Malaysia. He has conducted an extensive number in-house programs and public seminars in Malaysia.