The SOAS SCAN work-shops

The SOAS SCAN workshop on Communication is a training course covering aspects significant to communications. The course caters to global communications in current interactive contexts, and intergrates multiple dimensions, including group size, group type, spatiality, temperality, modality, and context in communication.

Objectives

The SCAN objectives include the development of speaker agency, through increasing effective communication, strengthening key phrases and style, learning to self teach, recognizing great communication, coordinating verbal / non verbal communication expertise, managing confliect and all categories of interaction.

Outcomes

Those who enter the course will benefit significantly, in that they will strengthen the effectiveness of their communication and hence persuasiveness in a general range of fields and dimensions. By increasing their self eteem, assertiveness, confidence, and control of communication, individuals will be in a position to manage and negotiate all forms of interaction, message delivery, and organization of texts in a multiplicity of forms, This competence will reflexively benefit the individual’s organization in material ways.

Methodology

THE SOAS SCAN course offers two full days of only pragmatic work convened by global experts in communication. The SCAN operates in such a way so as to form a global community with the workshops as the entrance to the community, during which, all participants engage in two full days of praxis. The participants are requested to gradually and increasingly move into higher end engagement as communicators, thus drawing on a Vygotskian framework to effect the building of their competence as communicators in and across global networks.

Participants

The SCAN is valuable for global cultural industry workers, government employees seeking to developing national industries, those in leadership roles, coahes, legal and medical professionals, academics, media and marketing people, HR professionals, public speekers, and beyond. The SCAN operates in such a way so as to assist all communicators strengthen and at times redirect themeselves as glocal and not only local agents of communication.

Schedule and Syllabus

The SOAS SCAN runs for two full days, and provides participants with tasks both to bring to the workshop, and to take away from the workshop, while including participants in the SOAS SCAN global community for continuous development above and beyond the workshop. The SOAS SCAN has a global network of over 30000 academic institutions, who interact with SOAS at varous levels, academically, thus informing the development of its courses.

Day 1
Module 1
Introduction | Communication Fundamentals 
Why Strengthen Communication
Tenets of Bad and Great Communication
Common Weaknesses in Commnunication
Communication and Anthropology
Induction into our Community
Module 2
MicroComm A: Reflexivity, Looking at the Self
Who am I? Appraisal
What’s my Communication?
Tandem Criticism
Group Criticism and Constructive Feedback
Whole Class Criticism and Constructive Feedback
Module 3
MicroComm B: Self Development
Resolving and Countering
Expanding
Mapping my Communication Skills and Deficits
Application and Personal Constructive Feedback
Exercise to Expose our Weaknesses
Module 4
MicroComm C: Communication Motives
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Day 2
Module 5
MacroComm A: Communication in Society
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Module 6
MacroComm B: Networks, Circles
Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Non – Verbal Communication
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Module 7
MacroComm C: Corporate, Organization Comm
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Module 8
MacroComm D: MassComm Strategies
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Day 3
Module 9
MacroComm D: MassComm Strategies
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Module 10
MacroComm D: MassComm Strategies
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Module 11
MacroComm D: MassComm Strategies
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback
Module 12
MacroComm D: MassComm Strategies
Verbal Communication
Importance of the Tone
Non – Verbal Communication
Application and Practice
Assessment and Personal Constructive Feedback