Take the Pain Away From Those Difficult Conversations
This course equips participants with the essential skills to navigate challenging conversations with confidence and empathy. Through a combination of theory and real-life examples, participants will learn strategies to foster open communication, manage their emotions, and achieve positive outcomes in tough conversations.
The curriculum begins by exploring the typical conversations that are often deemed as too difficult to have. Â It then looks at the psychology of difficult conversations, helping participants understand the underlying dynamics and emotions at play. It then delves into active listening techniques, teaching participants to genuinely hear and comprehend others' perspectives.
The course covers assertiveness, enabling participants to express their thoughts clearly and respectfully. Conflict resolution strategies are emphasised, offering tools to defuse tension and find common ground. Additionally, participants will learn how to be the adult in the conversation and how to calm down angry or emotional people. Â Throughout the course, emotional intelligence is a recurring theme, emphasising self-awareness and empathy. Participants will gain insights into managing their emotions and recognising emotional cues in others. By the course's end, attendees will possess a comprehensive skill set to approach difficult conversations with newfound confidence, fostering healthier relationships and constructive outcomes.
Don’t let the fear of having difficult conversations hold you back, enrol today and become a better communicator who can deal with those difficult and challenging situations. Don’t put them off, making them worse.
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Sarah Brooks, Joint Managing Director at Abbeydale Sarah Brooks is an excellent trainer with over 25 years of experience. She has delivered training to the UK Houses of Parliament for the past 12 years and has worked with large corporations as well as hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. Her courses are often described as "the best training I have ever had." Sarah's passion for training shines through in her delivery, making her sessions highly effective and engaging.
Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.
Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.
