7 Barriers to Effective Communication and How to Remove Them

In our Communication Skills Training Course, we look at the barriers to effective communication. In this post, we look at 7 common barriers to effective communication and how to reduce or remove them.

what is assertiveness

What is Assertiveness and How to Be Assertive?

What is Assertiveness? Assertiveness is often misunderstood. In this post, we look at what assertiveness is and how you can demonstrate more assertive behaviours.

8 tips for successful meetings

8 Tips for Effective Meetings

Are your meetings effective? In this post, we share 8 tips for making your meetings successful and running effective meetings. Some simple things that you can do to make sure your meetings add value and run smoothly.

How to Improve Cross Team Working

In this post, we look at what it takes to ensure effective cross teamwork in an organisation. We look at how to ensure teams don't work in silos but look at ways to make sure that teams work efficiently and effectively together.

What Makes a Great Presentation?

What makes a great presentation? In this post, we share some top tips for delivering engaging presentations and ideas to make your presentations more effective and impactful.

Dealing With Non Assertive People

A common discussion that comes up in our Assertiveness Skills training course is around dealing with non-assertive people. Those are the people who are either aggressive or passive. In this post, we share some quick tips in how to deal with someone who isn't being assertive.

Are You Making These Communication Mistakes?

Lots of people attend our communication skills training course and we find that they make the same mistakes when it comes to effective communication. Here are some of the common mistakes that people make.

The 7 Cs of Communication

The 7 Cs of Communication is a checklist to ensure that your communication is effective. It's a tool we cover in our communication skills training course in much more depth, but we hope you find this brief overview useful.

People Are Not Mushrooms – Don’t Keep Them In The Dark

Do you have a communication strategy that serves to keep your team and people in your organisation updated? People don't like to be kept in the dark and, in this post, we look at the impact of not communicating and the benefits of having a more planned approach to communication.

Lessons From the Apprentice – Design a New Gadget

This weeks task on the Apprentice was to design and pitch a new household gadget.  Lord Sugar said that the success of the task would be very much down to the concept as the team who secured the most orders from two major retailers would win. The boys led by Azhar decided to focus on…