Overview
With the number of women working in housing making important gains in representation, there is still a way to go to reach equality. How do we support, retain and help further advance women in their careers in housing?
Our Confident Communication for Women in Housing course aims to bring together exceptional women from across the housing sector for high impact peer to peer learning that promotes a healthy culture that values women and gives them the confidence to speak up.
Attend our unique, and highly interactive training course, with other female housing professionals to learn new skills in communication and presentation, helping you to champion your passion and expertise through your communication style.
Through practical examples, which are specific to women working in the housing sector, develop and embody the essential skills needed to create impact and communicate with confident credibility.
Anne Walsh is a Dialect, Voice and Vocal Communications Coach with extensive one-to-one and group business coaching experience in the private, corporate, public and charitable sectors with clients from the fields of Finance, Law, HR, Music, Publishing, Politics, Property, Local Government, Psychotherapy, Science, Medicine, Media, Art, Health and Well-being, IT, Teaching, Accountancy, Consultancy, Interior Design, Fashion, Journalism, Research, Secretarial and Administration, Higher Education (Lecturers and MA\PhD students.)
She was Voice and Communications Trainer at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama from 2008-2012 and designed and delivered in-house training in London, nationally, and in Europe, ...
Learning Outcomes
- Develop the ability to be assertive and dynamic
- Practice different communication styles to deliver maximum impact
- Leave with the confidence to create a positive attitude towards change
- Learn innovative voice and speech techniques to maximise your presence
- Gain powerful performance techniques for building status and credibility
- Understand how your choice of language can create new and varied outcomes
Agenda
Registration
Trainers Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives
Generating Presence - the Science Behind It
- How to build a resonant, physical presence
- Create the conditions for credibility
Be Present to Have Presence!
- Owning and naming your strengths and positive attributes
- Role-play: Presenting yourself from a position of healthy self-esteem
Developing the Toolkit
Practise and deliver a line from a speech back to the trainer and the wider group to receive bespoke coaching.
- Body, breath, voice, equals personal power
- Breath is the key to relaxed, poised credibility
- Voice and vocal performance skills – pitch, pause and pace for maximising credibility
- Acting as if: Performance skills for high-status credibility
- Role play: Archetypal high-status – the language of rhetoric
Morning Break
Finding Your Feet to Speak Up in Meetings
- Role play exercise: Speaking with clarity of intention and impact in meetings:
Lunch
Promotion: Speak to Your New Team: Role Play Exercise
- Resonant versus dissonant leadership
- Flexing between different communication styles: flexibility is the key
- Avoiding self-sabotage in your language
- Reading your team and understanding their communication preferences
The Power of Persuasive Language: Rhetoric
- Be more persuasive by using rhetoric
- Understand what rhetoric to use
Afternoon Break
Establishing Presence and Flexibility in Your Communication Styles: Risking Spontaneity
- Risking spontaneity
Stepping Up and Owning Your Status
- Identify best practices to support interview preparation
- Understand what it means to be present in the moment to communicate in ways that are both flexible and spontaneous
Action Planning
- Recognising and naming your strengths and weaknesses with objectivity
- Identify areas where we are stuck – consciously welcoming change
- Building a practical plan going forward
- Select realisable, achievable goals and objectives stemming from your learning on the course
Feedback, Evaluation and Close
