Free Online Communication Skills Courses

Effective communication is comprised of a variety of skills, including:

• Listening to and/or understanding the needs of your audience
• Employing effective (nonverbal) cues to demonstrate openness and respect
• Organizing your thoughts
• Creating a clear and concise message
• Employing the correct technique for your message (e.g. informative, persuasive, etc.)
• Choosing the most effective medium for communication (e.g. written, oral, etc.)
• Allowing for feedback

Alison offers free online communication courses that address these skills and more. Don’t know where to start? Consider our popular Introduction to Communication Skills or Winning with Communication Skills - Master Your Communication Skills courses.

In a word, yes! Alison offers a variety of free online communication classes to help you boost your communication skills.

Depending on your learning goals, you can choose from the following:

• Communication Certificate Courses: help focus your learning and provide you with specific communications expertise in your field or industry (average completion time of two to three hours)
• Communication Diploma Courses: gain a more extensive understanding of a subject by mastering multiple communications concepts (average completion time of eight to 10 hours)
• Learning Paths: broaden your skill set, progress your knowledge or master the subject with combination of niche courses specially designed by communications experts (average completion time of 18 to 20 hours)

Communication skills are valuable in every aspect of your life and across industries and career fields. Alison offers courses specific to the following categories:

• Business, including Leadership, Management, Administration and Sales
• Health, including Nursing
• Humanities, including Psychology and Sociology
• IT Management
• Language
• Marketing, including Public Relations
• Media and Journalism
• Personal Development
• Workplace Supervision

Alison’s free online communication courses offer practical knowledge that can be readily applied in both your professional and personal life. Are you ready to get started?

Alison offers more than 200 quality communication courses designed by communication experts and universities to provide you with an interactive and enriched learning experience.

Our online communication classes help bolster your interpersonal skills, provide a boost to your professional confidence and serve as an impressive addition to your resume.

Alison’s web-based delivery system means that you can explore course offerings from a place and at a pace that is convenient for you. All courses are absolutely free, and upon completion, you can download an official certificate or diploma as proof of your achievement, depending upon the course or learning path you choose. Enroll today.

The best communication courses give practical training in real life situations. True to its ethos of empowerment, many of Alison’s free online communication courses are taught in the context of specific career paths.

Top 10 career-based communication courses:

1. Customer Service Skills
2. Diploma in Supervision
3. Administrative Support
4. Diploma in Nursing Leadership and Care Management
5. Introduction to Supervision
6. Pharmacy Assistant
7. Effective Communication Techniques for Teachers and Trainers
8. Customer Care Skills and Telephone Etiquette
9. Customer Services
10. Business Administration - Communication and Planning

Top 10 general communication courses:

1. Diploma in Business Communication Skills
2. Technical Writing Essentials
3. Speaking And Writing English Effectively
4. Effective Business Communication
5. Soft Skills: Master the Top 10 Soft Skills Necessary in the Workplace
6. Winning With Communication - Master Your Communication Skills
7. Become a Professional Speaker
8. The Science of Body Language
9. Skills for Speaking Effectively: The Art of Speaking
10. How to Speak Effectively

It’s never too late to become a better communicator. Alison’s communication skills courses can boost your effectiveness in the workplace (Diploma in Business Communication Skills), teach you the secrets of non-verbal communication (Body Language in the Work Place), train you to write more clearly (English Writing Skills) or simply give you the confidence you need to speak to an audience (Conquering Your Fear of Public Speaking). With hundreds of communication courses, whatever aspect of your communication you need to improve, you can find it on Alison.