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Confident Communication for Women in Housing

Increase Your Credibility, Impact, and Personal Power at Work

Chaired by Anne Walsh

Thursday 11 March, 2021

09:25 - 16:15

Virtual

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Overview

Women are paving the way in housing to create an impact and redress the gender imbalance, but are still often under-represented in housing’s most senior jobs.

This bespoke virtual course has been designed specifically for women who work in the housing sector. It focuses on developing and embodying the essential skills needed to create impact and communicate with confident credibility.

This Confident Communication for Women in Housing training course offers a highly effective toolkit of transformative, performance-based techniques, involving the body, breath, and voice. These will be practiced and then applied to different communication settings and role-play scenarios to enable you to develop greater flexibility and choice in how you react and communicate.

This toolkit can be practiced repeatedly to enable you to increase your sense of personal power, credibility, leadership capacities and confident communication for women.

Unlocking the Power of Virtual

Our virtual courses have been designed with you in mind. From group exercises in breakout rooms to live chat, whiteboards and interactive polls, we use a range of tools and techniques to ensure that you can connect with your trainer; network and share best practice with your peers and leave the day with the skills you need.

Our courses provide you with an interactive and engaging learning environment that can be accessed from any location, helping you to continue to connect, learn and grow. Click here to discover more!

This course will be delivered via Zoom.

Anne Walsh

Communications Coach

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, ...

Discover powerful performance techniques for building status and credibility
Learn innovative voice and speech techniques to maximise your presence
Understand how your choice of language can create new and varied 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

All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified, with signed certificates available upon request for event.

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Agenda

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09:25 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:45

Ice Breaker and Clarification of Learning Objectives

The Chair will discuss delegate experiences to identify personal objectives for the day and tailor the course to specific requirements

09:45 - 10:15

Generating Presence - the Science Behind It

How to build a resonant, physical presence
Create the conditions for credibility

10:15 - 10:45

Be Present to Have Presence!

Owning and naming your strengths and positive attributes
Role-play: Presenting yourself from a position of healthy self-esteem

10:45 - 11:45

Developing the Toolkit

Delegates will have the opportunity to 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

11:45 - 12:00

Morning Break

12:00 - 13:00

Finding Your Feet to Speak Up in Meetings

Speaking with clarity of intention and impact in meetings: role play exercise

13:00 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:00

Reflection Session

Trainer will review the day’s learning and the next stages of the course
Delegates will have time to ask questions and share views with one another

14:00 - 14:30

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 – understanding their communication preferences

14:30 - 14:45

The Power of Persuasive Language: Rhetoric

Be more persuasive by using rhetoric
Understand what rhetoric to use

14:45 - 15:00

Afternoon Break

15:00 - 15:15

Establishing Presence and Flexibility in Your Communication Styles: Risking Spontaneity

Risking spontaneity

15:15 - 15:45

Stepping Up and Owning Your Status

Identify best practices to support preparing for an interview
Understand what it means to be present in the moment to communicate in ways that are both flexible and spontaneous

15:45 - 16:00

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

16:00 - 16:15