Formal and non-formal relations in work and business

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

John D. Rockefeller

There are many entities on the market that offer products or services with similar quality but only some of such entities achieve real success. The successful companies are those with developed ability to deal with people, establish relationships and to gain trust and sympathy. During this training course, we will focus on developing such competences. We will focus on the psychological layer of interpersonal contacts that always result from a specific mix of inborn predispositions, acquired skills and the applicable circumstances. We will explain the details of how the structure of YOU, namely what you think of yourself, affects your contact with others. You will understand that a defensive approach creates a sense of lack of trust, suspicion and fear in relationships. If you have an open and positive approach, it is easier to build an open contact with others and gain sympathy.

We will show you what to do to improve your skills in this area but let us be honest: this task will be very demanding and will require your full involvement. You will find out how to develop the skills of talking about your actual needs and expectations from others, how to avoid unclear situations, learn to listen and consciously separate the professional level of a given piece of information from the level of relationship. Interpersonal communication is the key here as well as knowledge about breaking barriers and our own limitations in portraying the environment and the awareness of mechanisms that govern emotions and wise assertiveness. Prepare for a huge dose of useful knowledge which can bring surprising effects, if used properly.

DO YOU KNOW?

  • how to act during a dinner with customers?
  • how to establish new contacts during industry-specific conferences?
  • how to act when you run into customer in a personal situation?
  • how can you go and where the boundary of good manners is, in non-formal contact with customers?
  • how the human relations are created and what they are based on?
  • what knowledge on interpersonal communication should be used in work and business?
  • what the communication differences in personal and professional situations are?
  • how to establish non-formal relations in work and business and what are they?
  • how to find the perfect compromise, i.e. how important is the role of empathy in efficient communication?
  • how to develop openness and self-confidence in human relations?
  • how important your naturalness is in building friendliness and trust?

BUT ALSO

  • what are the external and internal barriers in developing relations?
  • how to prepare your mentality and how to work with emotions to feel more confident in contact with people?
  • what is assertive openness in business and relations?
  • how to control the impression we make on others in a conscious and skilful way?
  • what are meta-programmes and how to use knowledge relating to them in practice?
  • how do heuristics work?
  • what mechanisms from the psychology of social impact are worth being used in the process of building customer relations?
  • how to act around people not to cross their ethics boundaries?

AFTER TRAINING RELATING TO FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL RELATIONS IN WORK AND BUSINESS

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  • react in various situation that may occur in business in an assertive and flexible way,
  • express your opinions without generating unnecessary stressful situations,
  • develop new relations in an open way and thus generate better results.

YOU WILL NO LONGER

  • build barriers in human relations without awareness,
  • create assumptions and give in to automatic processes of judgement and errors in getting to know someone, that give you the impression that you know everything about others,
  • give up an effort of establishing a relation with someone due to stress and fright.

YOU WILL DEVELOP

  • emotional intelligence,
  • ability of controlling the impression you make on others in a conscious way,
  • self-confidence and self-esteem.

TRAINING PROGRAMME

  • A human being ­– a social person.
  • The idea of valuable human relations.
  • Professional relations vs. personal relations – where are the boundaries?
  • External and internal barriers in developing relations.
  • Start with yourself – basics of emotional intelligence in building human relations.
  • Effective communication in building relations– three levels of impact, i.e. mechanisms of interpersonal communication based on communication. psychology, psycholinguistics and sociolinguists.
  • Matching the style of communication to the recipient’s personality type – metaprograms.
  • The ability to change the perspective.
  • Psychology of intention.
  • Assertive openness in business and relations.
  • Selected rules of social impact in the process of developing relations.
  • Personal development programme based on coaching techniques and tools.
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