Interpersonal skills workshops

Focus: know yourself, strategies to bridge gaps

Become a better communicator by knowing your behaviours – and the behaviours of others. This workshop focuses on understanding what communication is, how it works, where it can go wrong, and how knowledge of your own personal communication style can help you develop strategies for dealing with people who are different to you.

Focus: emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence, also referred to as EI or EQ (emotional quotient), is based on the notion that our ability of understand our own emotions and those of the people we interact with is the key to better performance in both our professional and private lives. This workshop is designed to not only help you become more aware of your own emotions and their impact on your performance, but also to identify and adapt to the emotions of others.

Focus: giving effective feedback, coping with feedback

Feedback is an important part of working with others. Good feedback minimises conflict, gives individuals a chance to reflect and learn, and can lead to improved productivity. Our feedback workshop is designed to teach participants a simple process for giving feedback whilst offering them a number of opportunities to practise and receive feedback from others, and participate in real-life discussions about handling feedback in all its forms.

Focus: how to initiate and participate in rich conversations

Conversations are an important part of human relationships - both work and social. But working out how to have a good conversation isn't always easy. This workshop is all about how to have conversations, and if you’re already having them, how to have BETTER conversations! We’ll look at 6 beliefs for better conversations, 10 strategies for better conversations, and share ideas about how to start (and end!) conversations. This is an interactive workshop, and participants should expect to converse.

Focus: building facilitation skills, meeting management

By following a set of simple facilitation principles and using standard tools and activities, anybody can grow into a confident workshop facilitator. This workshop equips scientists, researchers, and leaders with simple techniques and processes for facilitation so that that they can help groups get more done, faster, and in a way that gets all the voices in the "room" - virtual or otherwise!

Focus: international skills, cross-cultural communication

Increasing your cultural awareness and building cultural intelligence can help you avoid misunderstandings that sometimes occur when working
with people from different countries and cultures. In this workshop, we’ll cover what culture is and why it matters, YOUR cultural style, and strategies for becoming more culturally intelligent.