Many of us were brought up being taught to ‘treat others as you would like to be treated yourself’. This is great parenting (or grand-parenting!) advice however it doesn’t work when we try and apply it to the world of communication.

If we only communicate with others in the way that we like to be communicated to ourselves, then we fail to engage anyone who has a different communication style to ourselves. Anyone who pays attention to different information. And anyone who takes in information in a different way than we do.

And that doesn’t even begin to include those who have different priorities to ourselves and those who have different interests or motivators than we do!

So how do you flex and adapt your communication style to ensure that you are able to communicate with impact?

In this session we:

• Identify our own personal communication preferences; which ones are effective and any that we may be over-reliant on.

• Explore how to accurately assess what might be going on for those that we want to communicate with.

• Apply a useful template that can be used for written and verbal communications.

• Consider all of the different ways in which we communicate and how to use this information to our advantage.

What a past Leadership School participant said: