Team Building

Using effective communication to build better workplace relationships.

Have you ever wondered if there are better ways to:

• understand your own personal style of communication, and use it to your best advantage?
• understand how your behaviour affects others?
• recognize other communication styles and communicate with them in the most effective manner?
• gain insights into behavioural tendencies that may hinder your own communication effectiveness?
• identify what kinds of questions the various styles are likely to ask?
• see how the different styles view and value time?
• determine with which styles you have the most success in your communications?

Sharpen Your Skills in Listening and Communicating with Others

People can spend up to 80% of their time in communication with others. But communication is more than simply speaking and writing. Effective communication also depends on your ability to listen to other people and understand their points of view.

In the real world, communication is not all that easy. For the most part, this is due to the differences in our interpersonal behaviours. With our personal likes, dislikes, and preferences, each of us tends to resist behaviours that are very different from our own because we feel tension within the relationship. With behaviours that are more like our own, we sense less tension and we respond more openly and positively. Even though each of us may be comfortable with our individual personality patterns and traits, it is the differences in our personalities that cause communications to break down.

We have designed a one-day seminar to enhance your interpersonal communication skills. In a stimulating and positive setting, you will experience self-analysis, group discussion, short lectures, and problem solving exercises that reinforce the learned skills in an intensive but highly participative session.

Seminar Objectives

This seminar places great emphasis on individual and group exercises to help participants understand what Interaction Styles are, how they differ among people, and how an individual can modify his/her behaviour in dealing with other people they come into contact with daily. The primary objective is to teach participants to take responsibility for the outcomes of their interactions by demonstrating more versatility in their relationships. To create a practical framework for understanding behaviour and communication, we use a quadrant matrix defining the four primary styles - Driver, Expressive, Supportive, and Analytical - in both the seminar and the Communication Styles report.

Each participant will receive the following:

• A Communication Styles Manual for both the seminar and reference thereafter
• An individual Communication Styles personality report describing their own style and how they can practically demonstrate versatility with all of the styles

For further information on how a Communication Styles seminar can contribute to your team building initiatives, contact Mindworks Consulting.

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