Managers, team members, owners and employees in New Zealand need to conduct difficult conversations at some time or another. Although difficult conversations cannot be avoided, they can be successfully managed to achieve positive outcomes.
Understanding, empathy and emotional intelligence skills development are necessary qualities that help you control difficult conversations before, during and after they occur, so that you can achieve the desired outcome. Giving critical feedback or dealing with highly-emotional staff can be a challenge, so we designed this course to help you gain not only the skills, but the confidence to manage them appropriately.
This highly valuable and engaging course empowers professionals to handle difficult conversations with ease to achieve professional success.
The PD Training Managing Difficult Conversations course is now available throughout New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and also via instructor-led online training.
Please click on the Public Class tab below to view our Managing Difficult Conversations course schedule by city or click the In-House Training tab to receive a free quote for courses delivered at your preferred location.
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"A very knowledgeable trainer who engaged well with the audience and dealt with curve balls very well. We all enjoyed and got a lot out of the day."
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"Fantastic day held with Mal very positive and very knowledgeable over all Great!"
"I wasn't sure initially what I would get from the course. I am now able to be confident with difficult conversations and have learned some techniques to prepare myself for any situation. Thanks Pam for your tutoring style. It suits who I am."
BCITO
"I was happy all round and Pam was awesome . She created a great learning environment for us all and kept a great pace for the team involved."
"Outstanding course, thank you very much. Timing was brilliant, content excellent and the relevance of the course was perfect for my working situation. Thanks again. I would highly recommend this course."
BCITO
"Kathy provided by far the best PD I have ever attended."
Marcellin College
"The reading list in the course manual is very helpful and I will be accessing some of these titles to strengthen my understanding of the topics."
Careerforce
"I really enjoyed the course - more time would have been great to work through more scenarios. We have some quite complex needs, so more time would have allowed us to dig into these more. I can't think of anything that wasn't useful."
Volunteer Services Abroad New Zealand
"Most useful were the techniques Roydon showed us. Setting ourselves up for those hard conversations."
"The personality traits that can be generic but also very useful in identifying how some people process information and communicate it."
Southern Cross Hospital Christchurch
"Looking at the personality of the person that you have to have the conversation with was quite enlightening for me."
"Overall a good positive learning experience with some valuable strategies to use in the future."
UCOL
Managing Difficult Conversations requires specialised knowledge and skill development because they can be challenging to handle without this support. During this training course, participants are taught how to develop an understanding of where, when, why and how to conduct difficult conversations.
The goal of this course is to empower professionals to be in control of a difficult conversation at all stages of it, so that they can achieve the desired outcome. It is a necessary skill in the management of human resources, handling of irate customers and team management.
See the Live Online tab for the course outline for the live online course
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Topic 1
Introduction
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Topic 2
Choosing to Have the Conversation
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Topic 3
Toolkit for Successful Conversations
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Topic 4
Choosing the Time and Place
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Topic 5
Framework for Difficult Conversations
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Topic 6
Staying Safe
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Topic 7
Testing the waters
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Topic 8
Wrap up
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When you want a tailored learning experience targeting exactly what you want without bringing everyone physically together, the best choice is a Live Online Class run by PDT.
We tailor the content and activities to be specific to your current needs and the needs of the people and run the course in our usual activity-based workshop style training, however, the participants can all be offsite, or some can be in the room with others offsite.
Unless you have a preferred tools we use 'Zoom for Education' that includes enhanced collaboration features such as One-click content sharing, real-time co-annotation (people can work together in activity files), and digital whiteboarding, we also include things like live polls and group chats so you virtually have the same collaborative learning experience of attending a course in a room with other people.
We have delivered these 100's (if not 1000's) of times, and get great outcomes. We achieve great outcomes because we keep our learner centric approach - just because it’s delivered through a screen to some or all participants doesn’t mean it needs to be less tailored or less personalised.
You still have an expert trainer who talks to you prior to the session and tailors the delivery to use your terminology, ensure activities are relevant and directly applicable and ensures an engaging learning experience that provide people with skills and techniques they can apply the very next day.
A hybrid class is with some people connecting online, and some people physically together in the same room.
We provide the Training Management Centre which is an information hub before, during and after training.
(Let us know if there’s parts you don’t want to use)
Invites people to training
(So you don’t have to)
Generates Sign in Sheet
(So you don’t have to)
Generates Branded Flyer
If you want to ‘promote’ internally
PDF’s of Certificates
(can be co-branded with your logo)
Collects and Reports feedback
(So you don’t have to)
Complete Results Dashboard
(including trainer insights)
At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.
In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.
Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts,
and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.
It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.
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