Co-operators need to be excellent communicators. In a co-operative important business decisions are often taken by groups of people in meetings. So communications skills and meetings skills are paramount for co-operative sustainability.
Our workshops focus on identifying good communications skills;
the two-way nature of communication; minimising ‘noise’; active
listening; gender and communications; being assertive; giving and receiving
criticism.
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Communications: a two-way process 283kb
Active listening exercise 34kb
Gender and communications 45kb
Are you assertive?39kb
Giving and receiving criticism assertively 55kb
Listening and Democracy by Bill Caspary http/www.geo.coop./Listening.htm
We’ve prepared a brief questionnaire to help you assess whether your co-operative needs to pay more attention to its communication systems. Check out your communications skills here.