Productive Communication in Professional Relationships
Effective communication is a critical interpersonal skill, and learning how to improve our communication has many benefits. Join us to hear from our professional coach/facilitator and speaker, Sally Dooley, who will guide us on communicating effectively and creating productive communication in Mentoring Relationships.
About this event
Mentoring Matters!
The purpose of the ACS Mentoring Program is to provide an opportunity for members to help members; to connect individuals with those seeking advice and guidance to develop their careers.
Effective communication is a critical interpersonal skill, and learning how to improve our communication has many benefits. Join us to hear from our professional coach/facilitator and speaker, Sally Dooley, who will guide us on communicating effectively and creating productive communication in Mentoring Relationships.
This session provides mentors and mentees with practical strategies and tools to communicate effectively.
Topics discussed include:
- Defining clear communication roles, responsibilities and protocols for your relationship
- Understanding different communication preferences, including generational differences
- Top tips for listening, reflecting and questioning effectively
- Wrapping up mentoring conversations by reflecting on insights gained and action steps
- Q and A...
Speakers
Over a career spanning twenty years, Sally has worked in public, private and community sectors specialising in a wide range of leadership and people development areas. She has extensive and rich facilitation experience with a diverse range of clients and contexts. This has included leadership development, strategic planning, team building and stakeholder engagement workshops with participants from senior executive to team member levels. Sally has a unique ability to connect with all of her clients, creating a very positive and interactive learning environment. She utilises creative and interactive facilitation processes, including design thinking, improvisation, and storytelling, to unleash the potential of all the minds and hearts in the room. This leads to the best possible outcomes and fosters a high level of commitment to taking agreed actions.
Sally is also a highly skilled and effective leadership coach who combines best practices with holistic and creative processes to help clients accelerate their effectiveness as leaders across all facets of their lives. Her experience working with clients in a range of contexts, combined with her academic and personal research, uniquely positions her to help clients achieve the outcomes they want.
In addition, Sally is a TEDx speaker and speaker coach who works with individuals and organisations to craft and communicate their strategic narratives.
Key Competencies:
• Expertise in designing and leading facilitation processes to achieve outcomes for clients, including leadership, change management, strategic planning and stakeholder engagement.
• Expertise in building high performing teams, including emotionally intelligent communication, resilience and wellbeing.
• Expertise in conducting needs analysis and developing appropriate learning and development programs for individuals, teams and organisations.
• Expertise in the design and implementation of performance management systems.
• Expertise in executive coaching and mentoring.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Excellent ability to establish effective relationships with stakeholders.
• Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
Qualifications and Accreditations
• Masters Training and Development (2013)
• Bachelor of Arts, Social Sciences
• MBTI, HBDI, DISC, TMI, Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence, Motivational Maps accreditations
• 360 feedback tools
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