Communicate to Connect: Valuable Communication Strategies for Educators

The purpose of this study is to help participants gain insight and guidance so they can improve their communication strategies, efforts, and techniques that are necessary to remain effective educators in today’s changing world. Anyone can learn to communicate in ways that consistently build powerful connections, however, it requires leaders to be proactive in their daily interactions with others.

This professional study course will be a master class centered around Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, a book written by leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell.

Maxwell does not get much more specific than when he writes, “Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.”  The participants will be positioned to have a greater awareness of how to bridge the communication gap through the power of connection. They will understand the Five Principles and Five Practices that develop the crucial skill of connecting, including:

• Finding Common Ground
• Keeping Your Communication Simple
• Capturing People’s Interest
• Inspiring People
• Staying Authentic in all Professional Relationshipscourse