Active Listening Skills & Giving Positive Constructive Feedback 1 Day Workshop

Listening is the most valuable and most neglected skill. It can help you develop great ideas, win trust, keep customers, solve problems, avoid conflicts, and resolve them when they do come up. And giving feedback frequently and promptly is at the heart of good management.

Both skills are absolutely essential in both your personal and work life, so let us show you how to do it brilliantly in this brand new one-day workshop.

As well as our public workshops we are able to offer Live Online Learning (via Zoom) and classroom sessions for private bookings — please get in touch for availability.

Course Overview

Prices

  • Standard Price

    £625*
  • Public Sector Price

    £550*
  • Large Charity
    Over 31+ staff

    £490*
  • Small Charity
    Fewer than 30 staff

    £380*
  • *Per person, excluding VAT

  • Duration

    1 day
  • Location

    Interactive online sessions delivered via Zoom. The link is sent to you after booking.

    Online

Course Overview

Our Active Listening Skills & Giving Positive Constructive Feedback workshop is currently only for Online public course bookings (open to all).

We are also able to run this workshop online as Face-to-Face Live Online Learning using Zoom and in the classroom for private group bookings — please get in touch with our friendly team for more information, pricing and availability.

What you will learn

Active Listening Skills

Most people feel they are good listeners, but most people also feel that they are rarely listened to properly. It doesn’t quite add up!

Listening is the most valuable and most neglected skill. It can help you develop great ideas, win trust, keep customers, solve problems, avoid conflicts, and resolve them when they do come up. Serious benefits from one simple skill.

Giving Positive Constructive Feedback

Giving feedback scares the wits out of many people. Many managers put the task off, neglecting issues for week after week, to the point where they really fester and become much harder to deal with.

There is just no way round it: giving feedback frequently and promptly is at the heart of good management. It is simply essential. So let us show you how to do it brilliantly – and enjoy it!

Themes covered

This one-day workshop will be structured around lots of small sessions and practical exercises. You will work with the other members of your group throughout, enabling you to learn from your own experience as well as each other. Learners must be open to looking at the ways in which people work at their best within a safe and supportive environment, in line with Happy’s principles.

By the end of this workshop, you will:

  • Understand how communication works and look at the difference between listening and hearing
  • Discover the benefits of empathic listening
  • Learn and practice the 5 key elements of active listening
  • Understand how to use questions to get the best out of your relationships
  • Recognise what stops you listening and identify solutions to deal with this
  • Identify key tips to improve your communication on the phone
  • Identify the difference between constructive and destructive feedback
  • Identify what stops you giving feedback and the impact this can have on others
  • Identify where the most valuable feedback for a person can come from
  • Learn the key steps to providing constructive and positive feedback clearly and within appropriate timescales
  • Practice giving feedback positively to create new possibilities
  • Prepare yourself to respond well to feedback from others

Our approach to programme delivery

Every programme is designed to ensure complete individual involvement and participation, it will stimulate your thinking and challenge you. The key focus is on practical skills and real outcomes throughout. The content will involve an innovative and engaging blend of activities so that you can directly apply it to your current performance and your future success.

Need help? Call us on

020 7375 7300

Group Learning Events

Looking for a private group event for your team, or even your whole organisation?

We can organise a date that works for you, and we can tailor the content to your team. Our private workshops can be held online, inhouse at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, Central London (following current government guidelines).

Find out more and enquire now

What's it like to learn with Happy?

We offer complete individual involvement and participation on all of our workshops. In this video, Nicky delivers a short session about the different Communication Styles, and how they affect the way you work with and manage others.

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See our available course dates, or contact us for bespoke options.

The Small Print

For Face-to-Face Live Online Learning

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

You should reserve out 10am to 4.30pm in your diary for the learning. This will allow you to join the interactive workshops and have time to reflect and do the assignments in between. We believe immersing yourself in the content for a whole day will create deep learning and lasting impact. 

Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera — if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:30pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9.45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Coronavirus Policy

In light of the current Coronavirus outbreak we want all of our customers to be reassured that we are working to maintain the highest standards of Health and Safety. We are monitoring the situation closely and are following all current Government guidelines.

Please see our Coronavirus Policy for more details and the latest information.

If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.

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