Impactful communication: from clarity to connection

Target Audience:

All VIB staff

Location:

Leuven - Park Inn by Radisson

Duration:

17 March & 1 April 2025

General context

The general aim of effective communication is creating visibility for your messages. This is often felt to be a challenge, in communication in hierarchical contexts as well as in conversations amongst peers. Giving yourself the mandate to create this visibility, feeling yourself able to do it, and daring to actually start such conversations are core elements in communicating with impact.

Please note that this training is the same as 'Communication skills: Establishing connective clarity' that we had previously in our offer.

Learning outcomes

After this programme you will be able to:

deal with problems and delicate issues in a solution focused way and to use solution focused language.
have clear messages, to state these messages as you mean to and to communicate your messages to others so they really understand them as you mean to.
consciously choose how you want to respond to other people’s behaviour instead of to react in an automatic mode.
to connect with other people’s messages without losing connection with your own.
to have impact in an assertive – not aggressive – way.
to give direction to difficult conversations (saying no, bringing bad news, giving feedback)

Extra information

Testimonials

The workshop was recommended to me by colleagues and completely met my expectations. A safe environment was created so that everyone felt free to communicate openly, everyone was very interested and learned from each other's stories.

Participant edition spring 2024

For the course itself, I honestly learned a lot. The trainer has an amazing talent to make the group feel safe to share, and this was an enormous asset to the training. The two days were full of exercises and useful tips and tricks, and little dry theory (which is the way to go in my opinion for a soft-skill course).

Participant edition spring 2023

I really liked that there were so many exercises where we could use real life examples to learn about communication styles and how to tackle certain problems. The trainer was also absolutely excellent in creating a safe environment, where everyone could be very open and honest, and this created even more opportunities to learn from each other's experiences as well.

Participant edition spring 2023

Trainers

True Colours

True Colours, BE

True Colours® is a creation of Lisa Boelaert and Herwig Deconinck – inspired by 17 years of working together and our shared drive, dream and vision concerning people, development, teamwork & change.

As a change consultancy, True Colours has built a niche within research and academic organisations on the one hand, and they work for profit, non-profit, production and service companies on the other hand.

True Colours coaches:
•Individuals (coaching/training/supporting)
•Teams (team coaching, conflict mediation, team development, teambuilding)
•Organisations (process support, work conferences and large group interventions, setting up and guiding change programmes, strategy exercises, …)

regarding the changes that are happening to them or in which they find themselves.

True Colours likes to combine their insights and experiences in HR, solutions-focused work practices, organisational design and lean management, and personal and team leadership.

They specialise in short-term projects within a long-term relationship: a thorough knowledge of the client enables us to respond maximally to concrete requests and makes change possible in the short-term. They have been working together with VIB for more that 10 years now.