Welcome to the Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Workshop

Welcome to our 1 day workshop... not often do we get an opportunity to come together as a group and exchange ideas in an attempt to serve our clients better and ultimately move our college forward. During our time together we will look at what Interpersonal Communication means to each of us and how we have been using it both in our personal and work lives, some barriers to communication and how these may affect us from transfering our intended message. If you have not guessed it yet this is going to be a highly interactive workshop... yes lots of meaningful discussion. To focus yet some more on meeting your needs, I am asking that all participants start thinking of those areas in Interpersonal Communication that you would like to explore in some more depth and send these to me, I will make every effort to incorporate them in our time together.

*** Before we get together on October 29, 2009 at UCCI's Executive Training Suites Rm 1, I want you to do three things:

1. Share with me what you want to take away from this workshop, and any issues that concern you re: the way we interface with our clients both internal and external. (Kindly submit to me via IESworkshop@ucci.edu.ky by October 23, 2009).

2. Ensure that you familiarise yourselves with this blog platform, as we will be using this method as our main communication platform. All assignments and responses will be posted via this medium.

3. Now that you are familiar with the platform go to the Pre-Workshop Assignment at the bottom of the workshop blog page and post your response to the question listed there. Each person will respond to at least one other participant's response. " Are you there yet?" :)

I am excited about this our first professional development workshop of the academic year and I look to hearing from you, reading your submissions and facilitating the process.

See you in 2 weeks.

Deborah