Advisers offered free learning session on 'human' skills

The Co-Laboratory’s third session will be launched on 26 July

Sahar Nazir
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Advisers are being offered a free online session focused on communication skills as part of an initiative co-launched by former Personal Finance Society (PFS) president Caroline Stuart.

Soft skills expert Melissa Kidd is the other co-found of The Co-Laboratory, an initiative founded earlier this year (31 March) to help advisers  with communications and ‘human skills'. The hour-long human skill session on 26 July is the third event hosted by The Co-Laboratory and is entitled ‘Getting others to see your point of view'. Octo Members founder and chief executive Lee Robertson will be a presenter. Stuart said: "From struggling to get your point of view across to making sure your message not only gets received and understood but also gets actioned, are everyday communicatio...

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