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Straight Talk to Self Development |
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It is becoming ever more apparent that having a successful life depends on far more than having a high IQ, a good education and functional or technical training. In fact, there are many highly educated and intelligent people whose careers never take off and whose ability to form good relationships with friends, family and partners is limited at best.
It is becoming ever more apparent that having a successful life depends on far more than having a high IQ, a good education and functional or technical training. In fact, there are many highly educated and intelligent people whose careers never take off and whose ability to form good relationships with friends, family and partners is limited at best.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage oneself and to relate to others. It is key to all our relationships and to the day to day conversations on which these relationships are built. Some of the conversations can make or break careers, partnerships and family relationships.
- talking to your boss about a promotion or salary increase
- negotiating personal boundaries with friends, family members or children
- confronting a toxic colleague or friend
- speaking up in a group to express an unpopular opinion
- handling negative feedback from your boss
- keeping your cool in a heated and emotional argument
- discussing with your mother-in-law, how you manage your children.
The Straight Talk training supplies the skills required by these demanding and often difficult conversations, whether they take place at work or in the social and family environment. When you can speak up and be heard in conversations like these, you strengthen your resilience and empower yourself to build strong relationships even when the circumstances are difficult.
In the two day workshop you learn how to:
1. Identify exactly what you need to talk about and the best outcome for a conversation
2. Defuse your emotions before you talk
3. Open a conversation so it doesn’t blow up in your face
4. Put the facts on the table clearly and concisely
5. Explain how you feel even in a sensitive situation
6. Engage with the other person so you get both sides of the story
7. Negotiate a solution to which both of you are committed.
Straight Talk training can take place in a number of contexts: in graduate development and leadership programs, in teams which have communication difficulties, in support of corporate values and culture change, and for development of particular groups for example women, in an organisation.
Specific conversations that are relevant to the experience of each group are used for practical work in training. Participants are also asked to return a plan for one of their own conversations to Straight Talk for feedback after training. These mechanisms ensure that both generic principles and practical applications are covered in the training process.
To enquire about in house training please contact us
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