We offer a variety of courses in communications and essential soft skills for individuals and organizations.
Delivering great presentations entails more than just sharing information with your audience; in fact, it even goes beyond being articulate and delivering your message with confidence. Great presenters are able to conceptualize an impression that they seek to leave in the minds of their audience and design their presentation in a manner that achieves this aim. Skillhive’s Presentation Skills Training equips you with the tools you need to be a great presenter. In this training you will learn to:
- Organize your presentations in a coherent manner
- Appreciate the effect of how you present on what you present
- Make an impact with your presentation
- Ensure that your audience remember the key points of your presentation
- Gauge when and how to use visual aids/demonstrations
Everybody has the capacity to become a skillful public speaker. With effective Public Speaking training you can equal or even surpass the skills of your most admired public speaker. Skillhive’s Public Speaking training helps you to unlock your true potential and sets you on a path of constant improvement of your public speaking skills through an easily applicable practice regime. In this training you will learn to:
- Develop your messages
- Connect with your audience
- Be aware of your body language and use it to communicate your message
- Manage your nerves
- Manage unexpected occurrences during a speech
- Adopt measures that ensure continuous development/improvement of your public speaking skills
The media is a major channel through which organizations’ reputation and brand image are moulded. Organizations can therefore not afford to leave the kind of information that is released about them through the media to chance. Skillhive’s Media Engagement training will teach you the secrets to successful media engagement. In this training you will learn to:
- View the media through the right lenses
- Appreciate the current media environment
- Develop structures that ensure successful media engagement
- Maintain constant communication/interaction with the media
- Conduct successful media interviews
- Make meaningful contributions to panel discussions
- Maintain the substance of your organizations messages through the various media filters
Report Writing is a critical function that requires careful attention in any group or organization. Unfortunately reports are often delayed, poorly written or avoided altogether because of challenges many people face when writing them. Skillhive’s Report Writing training equips participants with techniques that help to eliminate the hurdles faced in writing reports and develops their capacity to quickly write effective reports. In this training you will learn to:
- Take notes that facilitate the writing of your report
- Determine the right times to work on your report (avoid distractions)
- Identify what purpose your report is supposed to serve
- Determine what is relevant and what is irrelevant to the particular report you are writing
- Adopt the right structure for your report
An organization does not exist until the individual units that make up the organization interact with each other. Communication is paramount not only to the existence of organizations, groups and teams but also to their ability to function efficiently. The importance of ensuring effective Internal Communications, which deals with the interactions between those units within the organization, cannot be overstressed. In this training you will learn to:
- Understand what Internal Communication is
- Appreciate the roles of official and unofficial communication within the organization
- Recognize the value of your internal customers
- Identify communication blocks within your group/organization
- Employ the most suitable channels of communication for your group/organization
- Set up systems and policies that encourage the free flow of information
- Ensure communication blocks do not reappear (Monitoring & Evaluation)
The primary function of a leader is to communicate. Leaders communicate their organizations vision, they communicate values, they communicate targets, they communicate instructions, they communicate direction; leaders even ought to go beyond their own communications to manage and direct the manner in which their team members communicate with each other. The potential and effectiveness of a leader can either be greatly improved or impaired by the methods of communication that they choose. In this training you will learn to:
- Identify the link between poor communication and employee motivation and output
- Adopt a communication toolkit that works best for you
- Communicate the importance of each role to the achievement of collective goals and objectives
- Effectively communicate management directives and delegate with clarity
- Give feedback on performance
About Us
Skillhive is a capacity building organization that undertakes training, orientation and facilitation in communications and essential soft skills for individuals and organizations.
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