Building Self-Awareness & Improving Personal Effectiveness

October 20, 2020 1:00 PM - October 22, 2020 3:00 PM

Online Course, Link will be sent in advance of the event.

Add to Calendar 10/20/2020 1:00:07 PM 10/22/2020 3:00:07 PM Building Self-Awareness & Improving Personal Effectiveness

This two-session, interactive course helps participants build effective interpersonal skills and provides tools for objective and subjective self-evaluation – both critical to success in the biotech industry. Through a combination of discussion, demonstration, group exercises, peer and coach feedback, homework and substantial practice, individuals will learn to identify their own communication strengths and will work on developing the areas that need improvement.

Topics covered will, in part, be determined by participants who will be encouraged to bring their individual concerns to the training. In addition, focus areas will include the following valuable topics:

  • Understanding Listener Needs
  • Listening Actively
  • Demonstrating Emotional Intelligence
  • Handling Questions
  • Controlling Personal Bias
  • Avoiding Emotional Hooks
  • Recognizing 6 Parts of Human Behavior


Course Schedule:

  • Tuesday, October 20th, 2020, 1:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  • Thursday, October 22nd, 2020,1:00 PM - 03:00 PM
 Online Course, Link will be sent in advance of the event.
Executive Communication Coach
Robin Golinski is an energetic and accomplished coach and trainer of The Speech Improvement Company. Her intuitive and upbeat personality accentuates her insightful and practical communication skills. Robin saw early on the power of storytelling and humor as effective communication tools for influencing and persuading others. Among Robin's many accomplishments are: co-author of The Handbook of Communication Training, former Chair of the National Communication Association Training & Development division, and trainer for Harvard Schools of Medicine, Design and Engineering. Robin has personally been responsible for strengthening the communication prowess of hundreds of researchers, scientists, physicians and others in the medical field at renowned companies such as C.R. Bard, Hologic, Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon, Acclarent, and DePuySynthes, Agios, Scipher Medicine, Foundation Medicine, Forrester Research, RallyBio, ThriveBio, DermBiont and Sanofi. Robin’s formal education includes a B.S. from Oakland University. She is nationally certified from The Instructor Training Institute, and has been trained at CTI - The Coaches Training Institute. Robin is also an Infinite Possibilities certified trainer and an active member of the National Communication Association.