About
Why attend this programme?
Communication is a critical skill for every manager. Getting your ideas and issues across to the key people who can support you in implementing the strategy is a very tough job, and if you can’t communicate your idea or issue properly, it may always be sidelined in your company. This Course helps you frame your ideas and issues in strategic business language, to speak and understand the language of senior managers.
Who should attend?
All middle and upper-level managers who propose strategies and ideas, or report performance to senior management or other influential stakeholders.
How will you benefit?
You will better be able to:
- Communicate in a way that senior managers listen to, remember, and are willing to act upon
- Sell your ideas, report your results, raise issues that need to be addressed, ask for support
- Connect what you want to say to the strategic goals of the organization that senior management cares about
- Handle interruptions and tough questions
- Defend your ideas or data without getting defensive
- Move from approval to action
- Improve your profile and credibility
Out line
Senior Management, Strategic Direction, Communicating and You
- The customer value proposition and how to achieve it as senior management’s key concern
- Crafting your message and linking it clearly to the strategic context to get senior management’s attention
- Implementation planning as an essential ingredient for any proposal
- Segmenting your different stakeholder groups and tailoring your message to the concerns of each
Criteria for Successful Communicating
- Different types of message for different situations
- Including a clear call to action in your communication
- Effective listening for better communication
- Using questions strategically
- Non-verbal communications
- Storytelling
Presenting your Ideas Persuasively
- Preparing your presentation
- Assessing your audience and the context
- Getting and keeping attention
- Using visual aids, using your voice, using movement for more impact
- Handling tough questions and interruptions
- Managing meetings
- Leveraging your personal style and strengths
Finalizing your plan for communicating to senior management
- Deliver your presentation and get feedback
- Different types of business presentations you’ll face as your career progresses
- Defending your idea assertively
- Develop your personal action plan for communicating to your senior management and key stakeholders.
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
