Interpersonal Skills
Students will discover a variety of lucrative interpersonal communication concepts for application in relationship building, conflict management, negotiation, and persuasion.
As students enter their post-secondary lives and the beginning of their careers, they’re confronted with the need to form functional relationships, confidently share ideas, and stand out in their ability to negotiate and navigate conflicts. SpeakSmart’s Interpersonal Skills program provides students with a comprehensive understanding of both conversational and persuasive communication strategies and best practices. The program distills complex and critical concepts into an understandable and age-friendly practical curriculum.
3 Key Skills
What you can expect your child to learn:
Relationship Building
Your child will learn how to present themselves and establish trust.
Logical Reasoning
They’ll understand what makes compelling ideas stand out among the noise.
Self-Advocacy
They’ll discover how to protect their interests through conflict and negotiation.
Course Structure
Part 1: Relationships
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Importance, applications, and fundamentals of interpersonal skills persuasion are discussed to provide thorough introduction.
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Students will learn how to empathize with and understand others’ perspectives, beliefs and opinions, enabling them to communicate with tact and intention.
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Students will learn how to communicate tactfully, set necessary boundaries, and protect their interests in regular conversation and disagreements.
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Students will learn to identify the source of conflicts and comfortably diffuse them to preserve relationships and minimize fallouts with others.
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Students will learn to set the parameters for a productive and mutually beneficial (integrative) negotiation. This session involves extensive practice opportunities.
Part 2: Persuasion
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Students will learn and apply the six principles of persuasion: reciprocity, authority, liking, consensus, scarcity, and consistency.
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Students will learn to use figurative language and storytelling to strengthen emotional appeal and build connection with others.
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Students will learn the critical element of Ethos: character and credibility, to cultivate a trustworthy and likeable personal brand to build meaningful connection.
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Students will learn how to define the terms of, substantiate, and present strong and persuasive logical arguments that literally can’t be challenged.
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Students learn to identify and avoid fallacies, which are insufficiently logical or irrational arguments.
Pricing (Early Registration)
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$349
Regular: $549 | 10 week virtual program
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$23
per hour of instruction
Communication programs are highly specialized, and typically offered at an immense premium. SpeakSmart is changing that.
An unmatched learning environment
Campus Locations
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Richmond Hill
1 Atkinson St, Richmond Hill, ON L4C 0H5
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Mississauga
2800 Skymark Ave, Mississauga, ON L4W 5A6