Continuing Professional Development

• Learn key approaches in gender and professional communication

• Gain knowledge of current language-based approaches to gender in professional communication

• Develop a critical awareness of the role of gender in professional communication so you can apply this in real-world contexts

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

• learn key approaches in gender and professional communication

• gain knowledge of current language-based approaches to gender in professional communication

• develop a critical awareness of the role of gender in professional communication and will be able to apply this in real-world contexts

Professional and practical skills

• acquire the tools to analyse gender in workplace interaction

• be able to engage in the analysis of gender representation on contemporary media sites

• be able to produce gender-based linguistic profiles of yourself and your colleagues

Transferable skills

• develop the ability to think critically about how gender affects your communication styles

• develop the skills to reflect on and apply effective communicative styles in the workplace

• acquire communication strategies that support flexibility in workplace encounters

Intellectual skills

• develop the ability to evaluate and reflect on the usefulness of a range of perspectives and approaches to the study of gender in professional communication

• be able to critically evaluate popular gender myths and stereotypes

School of English

The current CPD offering is provided by LiPP - our research and business unit based in the School of English. 

Our comprehensive online course is ideal for

• professionals in all sectors

• managers in leadership positions who wish to develop a collaborative workplace environment

• anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of gender and communication in professional settings

• Learn a wide range of approaches to help you understand how business leaders communicate effectively at work, in rapidly changing business circumstances
• Gain detailed knowledge of how linguistics can enable you to profile your own communicative styles as a leader

• Develop a detailed understanding of how workplace cultures affect communicative styles and how unproductive communicative cultures and teams can be transformed

Knowledge and understanding

• gain detailed knowledge of how linguistics can enable you to profile your own communicative styles as a leader and the styles of your colleagues
• gain a detailed understanding of how workplace cultures affect communicative styles and how unproductive communicative cultures and teams can be transformed
• learn the wide range of different approaches to analysing how business leaders can communicate effectively at work in rapidly-changing business circumstances

Professional and practical skills

• be able to carry out practical analysis of the communications culture of your workplace
• be able to raise your own conscious awareness of language use in spoken, written and digital contexts
• be able to reflect upon the verbal and non-verbal behaviour of yourself and others, including body language and gesture

Transferable skills

• develop the ability to lead effectively across a range of different media
• develop the skills to constructively evaluate communicative abilities in your workplace and learn how to implement change
• learn through practical examples of how communication styles are crucial to the effective implementation of organizational change

Intellectual skills

• acquire cutting-edge knowledge of professional communication for leaders working in ever-changing environments
• develop the ability to undertake linguistic analysis independently to change practices in your workplace
• be able to demonstrate the ability to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your own and others’ communicative behaviour

• Learn how to evaluate your own communicative practices, including analysing your own digital communication
• Gain knowledge and understanding of the range of influences that digital technologies have on communication in professional contexts

• Develop a successful range of everyday communicative strategies employed by professionals who use digitial technologies to interact with colleagues and clients

Knowledge and understanding

• learn about the role of digital communicative technologies in contemporary workplaces
• develop an understanding of the influence that digital technologies have on communication in professional contexts
• gain knowledge of the everyday communicative strategies employed by professionals who use digital technologies to interact with colleagues and clients

Professional and practical skills

• be able to use linguistic toolkits to examine communicative strategies in your own and others’ digital communication
• be able to carry out hands-on tasks to check your developing knowledge and understanding, and evaluate and make use of your course material
• develop the ability to apply strategies learned in the course in real-life professional settings 

Transferable skills

• develop the ability to communicate effectively through different mediadevelop skills to evaluate your own communicative abilities and those of your colleagues, informed by cutting-edge research
• gain the ability to demonstrate self-direction in tackling and solving real-life problems

Intellectual skills

• be able to demonstrate the ability to analyse data from your own digital workplace communication
• acquire the skills to undertake linguistic analysis independently and relate this to your own digital communicative practices
• develop the ability to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your own and others’ digital communicative behaviour