Soft Skills Workshop
Overview
Verbal Skills
From professional presentations and business storytelling to impactful and persuasive public speaking, explore ways to engage and communicate with clarity and conviction.
Writing Skills
Whether you’re writing reports, technical documents, web content or emails, learn how to produce effective professional writing that delivers your message.
Management Skills
Master leadership and supervisory skills and principals to build rapport, achieve trust, manage conflict, motivate with conviction and lead with confidence.
Personal Development Skills
From assertiveness and problem solving to meeting and time management, discover your natural strengths and capabilities and develop valuable new skills.
Team Development Skills
Learn how to develop high impact teams, change management strategies, deal with conflict, encourage team play and better service your customers.
Course Content
- Value clarification and matching assessment skills into employment
- Long term and short term goals
- Dealing with barriers to employment
- Decision-making strategies
- Setting priorities in work and personal life
- Factors that contribute to confidence and self-esteem
- Communicating effectively with employers, supervisors, and co-workers
- Teamwork approach to completing tasks
- Strategies for handling stress
- Appropriate clothing choices for interviews and the work site
Methods of Instruction
- Lecture
- Class discussion
- Roleplays
- Guest speakers
- Written assignments
- Videos
Learning Outcomes
- To help students explore their values and career choices through individual skill assessments
- To make realistic employment choices and to identify the steps necessary to achieve a goal
- To develop and practice self management skills for the work site
- To explore and practice basic communication skills
- To learn skills for discussing and resolving problems on the work site
- To assess and improve personal grooming
- To promote safety awareness including rules and procedures on the work site
Speaker
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KnowLand Staff TBDSkills Development Expert
KnowLand Instructors are qualified professionals with many years of experience in their field. The reason these experts are selected to teach and facilitate courses and workshops is that they are not only seasoned professionals, but also they have a natural ability to teach and motivate their students.