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About the 'Communication Skills For Work' Programme
About the 'Communication Skills For Work' Programme
Each session equips participants with practical skills, techniques and approaches to apply immediately. Participants also reflect on the ways in which they regularly communicate and consider a range of particular linguistic tools to use to their advantage.
Session 1 - How does the notion of culture help us to communicate in diverse, multilingual settings? What are critical incidents, and can they help us to improve how we communicate?
Session 2 - Top communication strategies - what works and what might we want to include more frequently in our everyday communication?
Session 3 - Small Talk in work contexts - what is its function and how do we do it?
Session 4 - The Grammar of Politeness - The relationship between grammar and levels of formality in English. How can we maintain politeness in our social interactions?
Session 5 - Personal Branding - How to craft and use personal branding statements which can be used in interviews, in CV’s and at networking events when job searching.
My Approach
My Approach
My teaching is trauma-informed. This is because many seekers of sanctuary are affected by trauma in a number of ways such as trouble sleeping, difficulties with cognitive processing, memory impairment and high anxiety. Trauma, consequently, significantly impacts the learning of new skills and linguistic items.
I use a variety of approaches in all workshops to ease symptoms of trauma such as developing positive goal setting behaviour, positive self-identity and self-worth, empathy building, brain building, creating a safe space, emotional regulation, being empowered and teaching in a culturally competent way. These approaches are central to all workshops. I teach a range of evidence-based, effective communication strategies and during the sessions, wellbeing tools are included to help ground and relax participants and help them focus better.
Partnerships
Partnerships
WordWise partners with RefugEAP where we offer the Communication Skills workshops to participants in HE. Read my blog post in RefugEAP Network
WordWise also works with Khala Communities by providing language coaching to refugees, enabling them to work in various industries in the UK.
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