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The Manager’s Toolkit: Empowering Leaders as Communication Champions

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32 minutes January 30, 2025

Managers play a pivotal role in critical cultural carriers and effective two-way conversations with employees. This session will tackle how best to address company-wide tough news and the essential tools and strategies managers need to excel as communicators. You’ll learn:

  • Effective Comms Techniques: Proven communication techniques that middle managers can use to convey messages and foster open dialogue within their teams.
  • Building Trust and Credibility: Strategies for team building, including best practices for transparency, consistency, and integrity in communication.
  • Leveraging Tech for Communication: The digital tools and platforms that can enhance collaboration within teams, especially in remote or hybrid work environments – plus, best practices for using technology to maintain regular check-ins and virtual team-building.
  • Confident and Sensitive Approaches: How to handle challenging situations with confidence and empathy, such as announcing layoffs, leadership changes and team re-structures.Manager Toolkits: Designing data-informed cascade models, including quick reference guides and talking point templates. 
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