WHAT TYPES OF WORKSHOPS ARE
AVAILABLE?
Available communication-related topic
workshops offered to faculty members are as follows:
- COMMUNICATION
APPREHENSION
This is a workshop designed to help
participants understand communication apprehension and how it affects their interpersonal
and public communication. Activities are included to assess individual
apprehension, and develop strategies to overcome their apprehension.
- CONFLICT
MANAGEMENT
This is a workshop designed to introduce productive conflict management strategies
and identify personal conflict profiles. Activities are included to define conflict,
assess each participant's conflict management style, and improve their skills.
- INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION
This is a workshop designed to enhance and develop participants' intercultural
communication skills by defining culture and ethnicity and outlining barriers to effective
intercultural communication such as ethnocentrism, stereotyping, and prejudice.
Activities are included to identify both verbal and nonverbal differences and reduce
uncertainties that could lead to misunderstanding or conflict. If requested,
role-playing exercises can be video-taped for skill development and assessment.
- JOB
INTERVIEWING SKILLS
This is a workshop designed to enhance and help
participants develop skills in employment interviews by outlining the purposes of job
interviews, identify the characteristics that employers seek in applicants, and illustrate
the three stages in preparing for an interview. Activities are included to
demonstrate positive and negative interviewing behaviors, outline typical interview
questions, and provide training in interviewing skills. If requested, role-playing
exercises can be video-taped for skill development and assessment in interviewing.
- LISTENING
SKILLS
This workshop is designed to help participants
improve their ability to listen while focusing on the difference between active listening
and hearing information without full comprehension. Activities are included to
assess listening skills, motivate for better listening habits, and provide training in
essential listening skills. If requested, role-playing exercises can be video-taped
for assessment of individual listening abilities.
- ORAL
COMPETENCY IN PRESENTATIONS
This workshop is designed to assist professional
work groups in developing effective presentations by clarifying the specific purpose of
the presentation, detailing the responsibilities of the presenter and other group members,
conducting audience analysis, organizing information, preparing and utilizing visual aids,
implementing smooth transitions between segments, developing guidelines for delivery, and
handling question/answer sessions. If requested, activities can be incorporated to
facilitate group planning and tips for handling public speaking anxiety.
- TEAM
BUILDING FOR GROUP PROJECTS
This workshop is designed to promote effective
team functions by highlighting the importance of teamwork in achieving a vision and goals,
and identifying the dynamics and processes of an effective team experience.
Activities are included that define teamwork and the characteristics of an effective team
and develop team vision, goals and roles as team members. The workshop is highly
interactive; therefore, it is most effective in longer time frames.
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