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Sessions | Mondays: 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
No. sessions | 6 |
Venue | Beeston Library, Beeston |
For ages | 19+ |
Group size | 5 - 12 |
Cost | FREE - £48 |
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
By the end of the course, you will be able to do several of the following: Identify personal communication strengths and areas for improvement to support your professional development. Describe and explain common barriers to effective communication and suggest strategies to overcome them. Demonstrate the use of different active listening techniques. Apply effective questioning strategies in a simulated workplace task to gather information and build rapport. Analyse the differences between assertive, passive, and aggressive communication styles using case studies to handle conflict constructively. Construct and deliver a short verbal presentation with appropriate structure. Use nonverbal communication effectively to reinforce verbal messages and improve presence. Evaluate the impact of communication choices (such as tone and body language). Demonstrate the ability to give and receive constructive feedback using agreed techniques during a practical exercise.
What you will need to bring to the course:
Suggested Reading for the course:
The Art of Social Excellence by Henrik Fexeus
Be Exceptional by Joe Navarro
Rapport by Emily Alison and Laurence Alison
Influence by Robert Cialdini
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.
West Midlands West Yorkshire
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