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Communicating with diplomacy and tact requires strategy, awareness, and skills. Its aim is to establish trust and rapport in relationships while delivering messages effectively. However, it's often pushed aside by good intentions cloaked by gut reaction and misinterpretation. This course provides techniques you can use to navigate through conversations in a way that shows sensitivity and respect for others. As well as exploring what you should say, the course shows you how you can use proper timing and delivery when conveying your message. This will enable you to deliver...
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Understanding how to communicate effectively with senior executives is a valuable skill for any professional. How else will you pitch your great idea to your CEO or report on key successes or failures? What if you've got only a few minutes to get your message across? This course provides direction on how to carry out executive-level communications in both formal and informal settings. It also explores different communications media and how they might be used to convey your message to senior executives. Finally, the course recognizes the different reasons why you might...
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Communicating with diplomacy and tact is more than a skill. It requires an awareness of your environment and style, and an ability to adapt to different situations. In this course, you'll see how conversations with different people in different situations can impact how you deliver your message, in terms of respect and sensitivity. By exploring the impact of environment, relationships, and communication style, this course shows you how to recognize the delicacy of different situations. It also demonstrates how you can adjust or adapt your communication style to ensure...
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In today's fast-paced world, information is sent and received more rapidly than ever before. But how do you ensure that the messages you are sending are effective, acceptable, and will be taken seriously? The use of proper e-mail etiquette is the cornerstone for ensuring your message gets across quickly, appropriately, and concisely. This course covers the basic requirements for using e-mail to communicate effectively. Specifically, you will be introduced to tried-and-true guidelines for e-mailing effectively, fundamental elements every e-mail should contain, and the...
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Putting emotional intelligence to work is an emerging trend in the corporate world. Developing the best talents in executives, managers, and employees throughout the organization has become vital to workplace success. Intellectual knowledge is no longer enough; you must also have the interpersonal competence that comes with emotional intelligence. In this course, you'll learn the value of emotions and how they can affect your workplace for better or for worse. You'll gain an understanding of how emotional forces can influence performance and decision making, learn how...
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Negotiation is a complex process that requires thorough preparation, clear communication, and keen perception. And the most successful negotiators are those who strive to achieve win-win results. This Challenge Series exercise explores various negotiation styles and processes and focuses on how to reach a collaborative, win-win solution.
Target Audience
Mid- to upper-level managers and executives; all high potentials and fast trackers, including individual contributors.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.2
Lesson ObjectivesVendor Negotiations: Choosing the Best Approach
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Do you pay attention to your emotions and the feelings of those around you? The answer to this question can help you discover how in tune you are with your emotions and help determine your emotional intelligence quotient, or your EQ. Your emotional intelligence quotient is your capacity to reason and analyze emotional information. Becoming aware of your emotions can help you become attuned to your own needs and the needs of others, and can help you make better decisions and develop better relationships. This course explores the power of emotions and the concept of...
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While meetings are a necessary part of business, their frequency often becomes excessive. This Business Impact details the importance of ensuring that meetings are an effective use of the attendees' time.
Target Audience
Students preparing to enter the workforce, entry level employees who have just entered the workforce and mid-level employees looking to refresh their skills.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.1
Lesson ObjectivesWhen Too Many Meetings Are Just Too Much
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Every office seems to have one â a person who seems to need to control every aspect and every detail of any situation or project they're involved with. Whether the motivation comes from a desire to ensure success or simply a need to be the center of attention, micromanagers generally do more harm than good. This course introduces you to the micromanager and explains strategies for how to deal with a micromanager appropriately.
Target Audience
Individuals who want to develop or refresh their communications skills when working with difficult people
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Aggressive people are arguably the most difficult type of people to work with. Hostile-aggressives are openly pushy and can easily intimidate people; passive-aggressives work behind the scenes with hidden agendas. No matter which type of aggressive behavior you have to deal with, aggressive co-workers can easily ruin your day or ruin a project with their behavior. In order to limit the negative impact aggressive people can have, you need a set of tools and techniques at your disposal suited to the particular type of aggressive person you may be dealing with. This course...