This document provides an overview of communication topics including sending and receiving messages, building communication style, persuasive speaking, making messages count, ensuring understanding, communication apprehension, running effective meetings, listening, presentations, emails, virtual teams, learning and development communication, preconceived notions, communicating metrics, levels of speaking, employee voice, leadership communication, and concludes with a summary and questions. The document covers a wide range of communication skills and strategies across different contexts from interpersonal to group and organizational communication.
2. CONTENTS
3-4 Introduction
5-6 Sending and receiving
7-8 Building blocks of communication style
9-10 Components of persuasive speech
11-12 Making your message count
13-14 Ways to ensure people understand you
15-16 Communication apprehension
17-19 Running an effective meaning
20-21 Listening
22-24 Presentations
25-27 Emails
28-29 Virtual teams and communication
30-31 Effective learning & development communication
32-34 Sources of pre-conceived notions
35-36 Communicating workforce metrics
37-40 Six levels of speaking
41-42 Mechanisms of employee voice
43-46 Leadership communication
47-48 Drills
49-50 Conclusion, summary and questions
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4. Page 4
Introduction to Toronto Training
and HR
Toronto Training and HR is a specialist training and
human resources consultancy headed by Timothy Holden
10 years in banking
15 years in training and human resources
Freelance practitioner since 2006
The core services provided by Toronto Training and HR
are:
Training event design
Training event delivery
HR support with an emphasis on reducing
costs, saving time plus improving employee
engagement and morale
Services for job seekers
14. Ways to
ensure people
understand
you
• Know your audience
• Know what you are talking
about
• Avoid ambiguity
• Say what you mean
• Take time to explain
• Don’t run off at the mouth
• Establish rapport
• Beware of double
meanings
• Avoid extremes
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18. Running an
effective
meeting 1 of 2
• Know if you really need a
formal meeting at all
• Set expectations prior to
the meeting
• Facilitate well during the
meeting
• Parkinson’s Law
• Allow conflict
• Assign action steps
• Delegate the meeting
responsibility
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19. Running an
effective
meeting 2 of 2
• Know when to lead and
when to participate
• Always let people out
early
• Make it fun…
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38. Six levels of
speaking 1 of 3
• How to speak so
people listen
• How to speak so
people understand
• How to speak so
people understand as
you intend them to
• How to speak so
people agree with you
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39. Six levels of
speaking 2 of 3
• How to speak so people
remember what you
want them to
• How to speak so people
think or do what you
want them to
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40. Six levels of
speaking 3 of 3
SPEAKING POWER
• Interest
• Insight
• Influence
• Impact
• Impulsion
• Inspiration
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