Communication Skills - Hucknall Library - Adult Learning

Hucknall Library, Hucknall

Date	25 February - 1 April 2026
Sessions	Wednesdays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Hucknall Library, Hucknall View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

This course will help you communicate with confidence and connect more effectively with the people around you. Across six sessions, you’ll explore how to express yourself clearly, listen actively, read between the lines, adapt to your audience, and communicate with impact. As you learn to communicate effectively, you will discover the psychology behind how messages are received and how we influence each other.

From navigating workplace conversations to managing difficult discussions, this course helps you become not just a better communicator – but a more confident you. You’ll gain insight into both the science and art of communication – including how nonverbal behaviour, persuasion and conformity theories can explain how we’re understood and influenced by others. You'll discover what holds people back, how to overcome barriers, and how to better communicate with empathy, clarity and influence in a variety of situations.

This course is perfect if you want to:

- Build your self-confidence and personal presence

- Prepare for job interviews, speeches or presentations

- Enhance your public speaking or PowerPoint delivery

- Communicate with clarity and purpose

- Improve written and digital communication skills

- Better handle feedback, conflict or misunderstandings

What you will need to bring to the course:

Pen and paper

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.