Boosting Relationship Skills

The course is for anyone who:

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 wants better everyday relationships
💬 wants to communicate more clearly

🌱 wants more confidence with others

🏢 works in teams or with customers
🤝 finds relationships difficult at times

Everyday relationships, including:

• friends
• colleagues

• family members
• romantic partners

• neighbours
• acquaintances

• customers/clients

💡 What confidence is & why it matters
📉 How low confidence affects results

🚫 Why avoiding comparisons helps
🧭 Using your Values to guide you

🧭 How to understand your own style
🔍 How behaviour links to personality

👥 Appreciating differences in others
🤝 Working well with different styles

🌟 Connecting with positive people
🏆 Earning respect

💛 Helping & supporting others
💬 Giving & receiving compliments

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Building & growing friendships

👂 How to listen well
💬 How to fully engage in conversations

👀 How to use body language
🌐 How to network with confidence

🧯 De-escalating conflict

🧠 Understanding difficult behaviour

🤝 Handling difficult people

🗣️ What assertiveness means
🙋 How to ask for what you want

📢 The importance of speaking out
🤝 Asking for help when needed

📱 A positive approach to social media

💭 Improving your thinking

💬 Developing positive self-talk

🌟 Communicating with confidence

💊 Issues needing professional support
❤️ Major life events (eg loss & abuse)
🍷 Lifestyle aspects needing specialists

💬 Conflict: try our course
….  Handling Conflict & Difficult People

⭐ Personal effectiveness: try our
….  Boosting Life Skills
….  Boosting 7 Highly Effective Characteristics

🤝 Relationships: also try our course
….  Boosting Highly Effective Relationship Characteristics

📘 Workbook: clear, simple guidance

🧠 Tools to improve communication
💬 Phrases for real-life situations

🛠️ Practical approaches to use daily
🛠️ Techniques to use straight away

🌱 Clear path to improve relationships

📝 Action plans to track your progress

and you’ll have 📚 handouts to refer to

14-16 hours – as decided by the Hosts* in each Delivery Centre

See: course reviews

Full details: course syllabus
Course overview: PDF document

The course is one of a series of courses
called Positive Life Courses (‘PLC’)

A Positive Life is one that is:
✨ uplifting
✨ encouraging

✨ hopeful
✨ confident

✨ supportive
✨ useful

✨ forward-looking
✨ worthwhile

To learn more: About PLC 

This course is based on ideas from:

• books:
  How to Start a Conversation & Make Friends, Don Gabor;
  How to be People-Smart, Les Giblin;
  
  The Definitive Book of Body Language, Allan & Barbara Pease;
  The Bible;
  
  Personality Patterns, Lana Bateman; Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz; See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar; Assertiveness at Work, Ken & Kate Back;
  Body Language and Talk Language, Allan Pease;
  
  Confidence Pocketbook, Gill Hasson; Personality Plus, Florence Littauer; Positive Personality Profiles, Robert Rohm;
  365 Days of Positive Self-Talk, Shad Helmstetter
• websites:
  mindtools.com,
  azquotes.com,
  brainyquote.com,
  TED talks,
  forbes.com,
  youtube.com,
  discinsights.com,
  inspirationloaded.com,
  huffingtonpost.com,
  psychologytoday.com,
  thinkgrowth.org,
  positivegraphics.com,
  pastorrick.com
• a talk: by Rick Warren entitled 10 Steps to De-escalate Conflict
• a seminar: by Fred Pryor entitled How to Handle Difficult People