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How to Ask for Professional Development
Exceptional career communication skills are an investment in your professional future and a valuable, untapped resource for your company.
If you're an employee working in a role that counts on robust interaction skills, it's worthwhile gauging whether your workplace has any budget to support your speaking growth needs.
Maybe you're feeling less confident about how you share your expertise and recommendations with external stakeholders.
Or perhaps you have to deal with complex conflict de-escalation at work with demanding clients…
Perhaps you have noticed that your selling skills would improve if you could address objections to purchase more confidently on the spot…
Or you're leading a team of junior employees and want to become more effective at pulling rank while retaining rapport…
Whatever it is, these and many more career communication goals will bring value to your professional profile and the company where you work.
Dr Sarah Lobegeiger de Rodriguez
PHD, MASTER OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY, MASTER OF MUSIC (OPERA PERFORMANCE), BMUS (PERF), BA(ENG AND PHILOSOPHY).
Communication is untapped capital.
So, if you've realised your speaking at work has some growth needs, it's worthwhile gauging whether this is something your boss might be willing to support financially.
Whether in whole or part, your organisation may see the value in professional development training for your communication skills. And if they don't, this template may influence them to see the benefits of communication training to their bottom line, customer experience or your overall engagement and retention in the role.
So, if you're excited to implement new communication skills that expand your career potential and value offer but feel unsure how to ask your boss if they're willing to invest money in speaking training…
Do not worry because we have prepared the exact resource you need!
How to Ask Your Company for Communication Training is the guide you need to request financial support for your professional development training.
Noticing that career communication development is your next big opportunity?
Chances are this is an investment your organisation may see the value in.
Now, we can't promise your boss will action the finance department to cover your communication training. Still, we can vouch that this template is the toolkit you need to position your request in a way that protects your reputation while asking for support to improve your speaking skills.
When it comes to your professional reputation management, discussions about your communication skills need to be strategic because the last thing you want is for your organisation to see the way you speak as a weakness.
We need your organisation to recognise that the way you speak and interact is an opportunity, a growth opportunity worth financing to gain improved outcomes for your career path and their bottom line.
Whether you're an emerging leader needing to sound more confident to get acknowledgement for the skills you can bring to a leadership role or a seasoned middle manager wanting to gain verified tools to speak confidently with senior leaders, deal with difficult team members, complex stakeholders and other demands with less effort, this guide will assist you in positioning and pitching elite communication skills training as a desirable thing to finance for your professional development this year.
This bonus guide includes:
A fillable template that helps you prepare an email that protects your reputation while asking for financial support to strengthen your communication at work.
Finally, you can shoot that email across, open the conversation and have more success at work with your speaking without waiting for your performance review to ask for financial support.
Once you have a model for presenting this pitch for support for professional development opportunities with your career communication, we can vouch that you will feel more confident to ask your boss for it!
So download the guide now!
Suppose you're not getting the return and influence expected from your qualifications, expertise and hard work. In that case, you may have realised that there is a missing ingredient in your professional profile- exceptional communication skills.
We spend so much of our lives receiving a good education and fine-tuning our expertise. Imagine if we dedicated the same level of attention to building our career communication strategically to gain influence and impact at work and finally get ahead. That could transform our entire career path.