CREDIT: FRANCIS SIEBERT
Thomas Otley, senior vice president of Dale Carnegie Training and Gay Lima, Fanshawe College's vice-president of academic.

Fanshawe College's School of Continuing Education will be offering a new communications course starting this week.

The new business course, Effective Communication and Human Relations, will help students strengthen relationships, manage stress and handle fast-paced work environment. The course will also give students leaderships and communication skills.

The course is being offered in collaboration with Dale Carnegie Training, which offers courses based on the teaching of American author Dale Carnegie, famous for his book from 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

“Dale Carnegie, as an organization, is very excited about the partnership with Fanshawe College,” said Thomas Otley, senior vice president of Dale Carnegie Training. “This relationship with Fanshawe College is the first in Canada, and so this Canadian partnership, we believe, is going to be to the hub for numerous relationships to come.”

He says that the relationship between the organization and the college will equip countless lives with the abilities and the skills to be even more successful in their life in their career.

“The single most significant thing about this partnership is that there's visionary leadership at Fanshawe College,” he said.

While Dale Carnegie Training courses have been offered in Canada before, it is the first partnership between Dale Carnegie Training and a Canadian post-secondary institution.

“We're very proud of this praetorship between Dale Carnegie and Fanshawe,” said Gary Danner, a strategic results partner at Dale Carnegie Training.

Danner will be teaching the course at Fanshawe.

“I'm a grad of Fanshawe from a few years back, and I believe this is going to beneficial for both Dale Carnegie and for Fanshawe College,” he said.

The classes start on October 28 and will be held every Tuesdays from 6 to 9:30 p.m. until December 16. The course will also be offered in the winter term. The cost is $1,725 plus HST. For more information, contact Shannon Toshack at 519-452-4400 ext. 4510 or visit tinyurl.com/dale-carnegie-training.