What are Social Skills?
Social skills are the skills you need to connect and communicate with other people. Social skills remain important even though we live in an online world. We need "people skills" for work when speaking to our boss, when we are leading a team, or giving a presentation. In our personal lives we need to communicate with our partner and family members, and increase our "connect-ability". Social skills can be further refined to include confidence at public speaking, leadership, meeting new people and maintaining important relationships.
If you feel shy, awkward or uncomfortable in social situations, our social etiquette course for adults will impart the skills to help you connect with colleagues, friends and strangers. We're here to help you improve your social skills so that you won't be intimidated by new situations when you need your confidence the most.
Our courses are pragmatic and focused on "skills" - things you can learn to get better at with a little practice. With focus and intention, these skills will become habitual. This is to say that social skills can be learned.
We will introduce you to the techniques you can practice to improve your social skills. You can work on the things that keep you from being the best version of yourself. Social skills help you increase your self-esteem, decrease social anxiety, and strengthen your self-confidence. Other benefits of social skills include:
Consider investing in yourself by building these all important social skills into your repertoire. They will help you strengthen your confidence and make that initial connection, the connection that will lead to the development of a meaningful business or personal relationship.
Our Business Etiquette Course is designed to guide professionals in developing a deeper understanding of the importance of culture to our business and social lives. It will implement the skills to develop your professional presence as someone who demonstrates a global business approach. Students will learn the techniques of effective personal presentation: posture, tone of voice, diction and wardrobe choices.
If you feel shy, awkward or uncomfortable in social situations, our social etiquette course for adults will impart the skills to help you connect with colleagues, friends and strangers. We're here to help you improve your social skills so that you won't be intimidated by new situations when you need your confidence the most.
Our courses are pragmatic and focused on "skills" - things you can learn to get better at with a little practice. With focus and intention, these skills will become habitual. This is to say that social skills can be learned.
We will introduce you to the techniques you can practice to improve your social skills. You can work on the things that keep you from being the best version of yourself. Social skills help you increase your self-esteem, decrease social anxiety, and strengthen your self-confidence. Other benefits of social skills include:
- How to communicate your message clearly with your posture, tone of voice and gestures
- How to have meaningful conversations with family friends, and how to meet new people
- How come across as confident and competent (even when you feel nervous)
- How to feel comfortable in various social situations such as parties or networking events
- How to feel at ease on any dining occasion
Consider investing in yourself by building these all important social skills into your repertoire. They will help you strengthen your confidence and make that initial connection, the connection that will lead to the development of a meaningful business or personal relationship.
Our Business Etiquette Course is designed to guide professionals in developing a deeper understanding of the importance of culture to our business and social lives. It will implement the skills to develop your professional presence as someone who demonstrates a global business approach. Students will learn the techniques of effective personal presentation: posture, tone of voice, diction and wardrobe choices.
SOCIAL ETIQUTTE TOPICS COVERED:
- Personal Presentation
- Body language, posture and tone of voice
- A customized dining etiquette tutorial
- Conversation skills and speech patterns
- Personal appearance and dress codes
- Written correspondence and letters
- Entertaining responsibilities and the roles of host and guest
- Digital etiquette and phone etiquette
- The nuanced are of creating and maintaining important relationships
- The etiquette of afternoon tea (optional)
BUSINESS ETIQUETTE TOPICS COVERED:
- What it means to acquire social skills
- Business cards when networking and meeting
- The importance of nuance and attention to detail
- Cultivating conversation skills and the art of small talk
- Etiquette for handshaking, greeting and meeting
- The importance of culture to business
- Dining in a business context
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Get personalized advice to determine your requirements. Fill in the form to request information about our adult social skills courses or request a free consultation specifying your preferred date, time and method of contact.