Interpersonal Skills

Disaggregating the skills and techniques that underpin interpersonal communication is difficult; they all combine to create effective one-to-one communication.
	Education is moving away from study practices which are focused on the individual (taking notes in lectures, reading books, writing essays and sitting exams) towards socially collaborative practices. These encourage learners to work together and build on each other’s experiences (scaffolding), engaging more with communities who learn together. This increased social collaboration through group work places much greater emphasis on interpersonal communication skills.
The activities within these pages are designed to help you to understand nonverbal communication and body language, exploring the importance of movements and gestures, facial expression, eye contact and posture. Many argue that these signals provide an opportunity to interpret hidden, unarticulated thoughts allowing you to understand what people are really thinking and feeling.