Communication training workshop with Positive Comedy Learning, using comedy and improvisation

This participative and interactive one-day workshop is for anyone who wants to develop their communication skills for use in work, business, and life in general.

The emphasis will be on developing your own style of communication in a natural and confident manner, using your strengths, and seeking to solve problems you are encountering. We will draw on fun methods from the world of performance, improvisation and comedy, with feedback from the peer group and the facilitator.

Advance questionnaires will enable delegates to identify issues which they'd like to address in a hands-on way, in the session.

Here are some of the topics which we are likely to draw in a practical way, as appropriate for the group of participants:

What constitutes 'good communication' and what are it's components?:

Your natural style of communication: developing an approach that suits you and uses your strengths and instincts

The voice:
- tone
- expressiveness
- pace, speed and timing
- using your natural optimal range
- breathing support for the voice
- variety and variation for different purposes

Physical aspects:
- body language and posture
- non-verbal communication
- eye contact

Other important factors:
- clarity of content and meaning
- building rapport, making impact and exerting influence
- choice of words and vocabulary, diction, jargon, padding
- active listening and responding
- using questioning to enhance understanding
- appropriate, effective and spontaneous humour
- effect of the setting and environment

Practising particular real-life communication situations:
- one-to-one communication
- group communication

Communication problems and difficulties:
- causes of miscommunication such as subjective perceptions or assumptions
- challenging communication situations
- communicating with difficult situations
- appreciating different perspectives and points of view
- overcoming nerves and tension
- 'how not to do it' exercises

Concluding activity:
- devising a personal plan of action to address issues identified and use solutions discovered in the session

Practical details

Venue: Community Base conference room, 113 Queens Road, in central Brighton, just south of the main line station on the corner with North Road.
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Dress code: informal, comfortable
Thur May 22nd 2008 10.00am - 4.30pm
£65/ multiple bookings £55pp - inc. refreshments other than lunch.

Advance booking is essential. To book, please enclose a cheque payable to 'Positive Comedy', and send to: Positive Comedy Learning, 57 Connaught Ave, Shoreham by Sea, BN43 5WL. Payment by BACS is also possible. Please let us know if you require an invoice.

For further info in UK call 01273 463611 or 07986 561860

Email: info@positivecomedy.com

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