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Interpersonal and Communication Skills

From speaking and writing to critical thinking and conflict resolution, these courses will help you develop strong relationship skills and become a highly effective communicator. Our short communication courses are designed to enhance your ability to connect, collaborate, and lead with confidence.
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Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

How we manage our emotions and empathise with other people can have a dramatic impact on our effectiveness at leading and achieving results. This emotional intelligence course helps you better sense and respond to your own emotions and the emotions of others. This course is available in Perth and select regional locations.

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Academic Assessment Writing

Next available date
Half-day - 01 February, 2025

This course covers the essential skills of academic assessment writing. It will support your Higher Education by helping you to develop skills in planning, researching, organising, analysing and presenting written assessments in a cohesive and professional manner, using correct English grammar.

Assertive Communication

Next available date
2 days - 19 February, 2025

Master the art of clear, confident expression while remaining receptive and open to others' concerns. You will discover the psychological impact this communication method has on long-term relationships and how influential it can be in achieving agreement with others.

Assertive Communication for Women

Next available date
2 days - 29 April, 2025

Clear, authentic self-expression and active listening are key ingredients of this course. Embrace the power of assertive communication as a woman, develop confidence and learn to communicate effectively with people at all levels in your organisation.

Confidence on Camera

Next available date
1 day - 15 April, 2025

This course is designed to help you bust your fears around being on camera. You’ll learn how to live and breathe your brand message, deliver content in a natural way and engage with new audiences through video.

Conflict Resolution

Next available date
2 days - 06 February, 2025

Conflict at work should enable ideas to be tested and new directions to be explored. In this course, you will examine positive and negative conflicts and discover conflict resolution techniques for your work and personal life. This course runs in Perth and Kalgoorlie.

Crucial Conversations for Accountability®

Next available date
2 days - 06 March, 2025

This course teaches a process for managing performance, strengthening trust and reliability, and improving consistency. It provides skills for holding peers accountable - regardless of position or authority.

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue®

Next available date
2 days - 29 January, 2025

What is a Crucial Conversation? A crucial conversation is a discussion between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary and emotions run strong. These conversations, when handled poorly or ignored, lead to strained relationships and dismal results.

Crucial Influence®

Next available date
1 day - 21 February, 2025

This course equips you with the skills to drive behavioural change, whether you're introducing a new product, implementing safety protocols, launching software, or simply aiming to improve team punctuality. 

Decision Making Techniques

Next available date
2 days - 22 April, 2025

Good decision making is at the heart of management and leadership. This course explores, through a series of cases, a wide range of approaches to decision making to increase both awareness of risk and basic decision skills.

Effective Communication

Next available date
2 days - 27 February, 2025

Learning how to communicate effectively in the workplace is crucial in optimising your performance. Good business communicators are highly valued by their organisations, however not everyone is a natural communicator. Fortunately, the keys to communicating effectively can be learned. This course runs in Perth, Bunbury and Kalgoorlie.

Effective Email Communication

Next available date
Half-day - 14 March, 2025

Email has become the communication method of choice to send short sharp messages. However, this does not guarantee it will be used effectively or efficiently. During this course you will learn how to improve your communication.

Effective Stakeholder Engagement

Next available date
2 days - 20 March, 2025

Communication by managers within an organisation should be guided by the real needs of stakeholders. This course explores several tools to help identify those real needs and not just work from assumptions. In doing so, organisations can create communication strategies that enable effective engagement with those stakeholders.

Having Difficult Conversations

Next available date
1 day - 23 January, 2025

Tough discussions with a direct report, peer, boss, supplier or customer can arise in a variety of situations. This course will show you how to prepare for these challenges and increase the likelihood of a successful outcome for everyone involved. This course runs in Perth and select regional locations.

Improving Your Interpersonal Relationships at Work

Next available date
3 days - 17 March, 2025

The backbone to every efficient and effective organisation is a cohesive team that works well together. This training course will help you to develop the personal insight necessary to work effectively with different personalities, avoid unnecessary conflicts, interpret people's reactions and modify your own style when appropriate. 

Influencing Skills

Next available date
1 day - 24 February, 2025

There are many people that we may need to influence because of our role, our expertise, our experience, or even our unique view on an issue. In this course, you'll explore the elements that help you to develop the ability to positively influence others, and then apply that learning to situations in your workplace. This course runs in Perth and select regional locations.

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

Next available date
2 days - 06 February, 2025

How we manage our emotions and empathise with other people can have a dramatic impact on our effectiveness at leading and achieving results. This emotional intelligence course helps you better sense and respond to your own emotions and the emotions of others. This course is available in Perth and select regional locations.

Mindsets for High Performance

Next available date
2 days - 13 February, 2025

Delivered in partnership with The Pacific Institute®, this globally renowned course is designed to cultivate mindsets that increase thinking flexibility, facilitate change and drive high performance. Over 6.5 million people across 60 countries have benefitted from this course.

Negotiation Skills

Next available date
2 days - 13 March, 2025

Research shows that most inexperienced negotiators rush too quickly to bargaining and don't spend enough time on planning. This practical course equips you with the tools, techniques and tactics required to manage negotiations successfully.

Networking for Success

Next available date
1 day - 31 March, 2025

In this course, you’ll learn the essential ingredients for business networking, including in-person, people-centred connections, and online spaces such as LinkedIn.

Prepare Persuasive Reports and Proposals

Next available date
1 day - 07 February, 2025

Whether you need to report on a product analysis, inventory, feasibility studies, or something else, report writing is a skill you will use again and again. This course will build on your existing writing skills to present information in formal, informal, and proposal styles.

Professional Business Writing

Next available date
2 days - 12 February, 2025

Knowing how to write clear, concise and effective communications is an essential workplace skill. This training course teaches you how to plan, organise and structure your writing to effectively reach your target audience. 

Professional Presentations

Next available date
2 days - 27 March, 2025

Speaking or make a visual presentation to a group can be a stressful experience. This course explores the skills required to create and deliver highly effective presentations with confidence and style. You will also learn how to use visual aids to achieve optimal impact.

Soft Skills for Technical Professionals

Next available date
1 day - 20 February, 2025

Equip yourself with the essential soft skills to thrive as a technical professional in today’s collaborative and cross-functional work environments. This course focuses on developing critical non-technical skills, such as effective communication, adaptability, and cross-functional collaboration, tailored to the unique challenges and perspectives of technical professionals.

Speaking Up in Meetings

Next available date
1 day - 04 March, 2025

This course is aimed at anybody who wants to improve their speaking skills in informal situations. You’ll have more confidence and greater skills to interact with others, to speak in informal situations, and to present in front of small groups.

Think on Your Feet®

Next available date
2 days - 20 January, 2025

Discover how to visualise and organise your thoughts quickly, communicate effectively under pressure, convey your ideas clearly and think on your feet faster. This course will teach you strategies to stay cool under pressure, enabling you to articulate and deliver your message clearly and concisely.

Think Smart

Next available date
2 days - 18 March, 2025

Learn to function at your best with insights from the latest research and brain science into personal productivity and decision making. This course will explore a range of different techniques to give you a new toolkit of skills.

Time Management

Next available date
2 days - 04 March, 2025

We do not manage time - we manage ourselves with respect to time - time is life! On this course you will learn the difference between importance and urgency and will be given tools, techniques and strategies that can be used back in the workplace to maximise the time they spend completing the tasks that matter most, whilst minimising time spent on tasks that don't.

Time Management - Organising Yourself

Next available date
1 day - 22 January, 2025

To become truly effective at work we must achieve a balance of our own time and the needs of the job. This course reinforces the need to take control over your behaviour and become responsible for job outcomes as well as simple processes. 

Turn Data into Compelling Visual Presentations

Next available date
1 day - 30 April, 2025

The use of data can be helpful to communicate messages to others but sometimes the main message can be lost or an audience can disengage. This course provides practical tips on sifting and using data in such a way to support the main message in a clear, succinct way.

Ways of Working with Aboriginal People

Next available date
1 day - 13 February, 2025

Building stronger, more meaningful relationships and understanding with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is the key outcome of this enlightening course.

Writing Policies, Procedures and Work Instructions

Next available date
2 days - 19 June, 2025

Technical writers often carry the burden of explaining all aspects of a new technology, instructing the user and contributing to the company's marketing efforts. In this course you will learn how to write in a technical style that is both professional and user-friendly along with how to structure a manual for maximum impact to your target audience.

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