Communication Skills for PhD students
Date: Tuesdays, 3 March - 26 May 2020, 6:00 - 7:30 pm (13 weekly sessions)
Venue: Seminar room 1b, building 1
Aims of the training
In order to be successful in your PhD, not only do you need to be able to manage your project and yourself but also your environment. This course focuses on this last challenge: communicating effectively with your colleagues, supervisor, peers and other parties in a language that is not your mother tongue. At the end of this training, you will be able to:
• adapt your communication style appropriately to given situations
• discuss problems and issues in a solution focused manner
• choose how to act and respond to others, rather than reacting impulsively
• be assertive in your communication without being aggressive
• give and receive feedback in a constructive way
• say no to requests or expectations you can’t fulfill
Content of the training
• Solutions Focus as basic communication paradigm
• Identifying interaction patterns and how you contribute to these patterns
• Changing undesired interaction patterns
• Assertiveness
• Feedback
• Saying no
• Delivering difficult messages
• Situational Influencing
Trainer: Louise Kennedy
