10 Tips on How to Improve Communication Skills
Wait! Can’t figure out how to connect better with people or miss out on some exciting career opportunity in your life. Here, we let you know the 9 tips on how to improve Communication skills so that you have the power to attract with unbreakable confidence. Whether you are a presenter or just want to express yourself clearly to people, learning the art of communication skills is an essential pursuit. You can win battles and grounds with effective communication.
We took the inspiration for this topic from the bestseller book “Talk Like Ted” by Carmine Gallo who shares the 9 secrets of public speaking by the world’s most influential personalities.
Storytelling
To begin with, learning the art of storytelling in your conversation is something that attracts people like a magnet. Listeners always prefer to listen to interesting incidents. It may be for the sake of selling a product or a presentation. Telling people a story bridges an emotional connection to your discussion and arouses some kind of intrigue in their minds. They might ask a question or give their feedback in return.
Presenting Ideas
Another aspect of communication is to present your ideas effectively to people. Sometimes even a minor suggestion can turn the tables all around. You can help and also can get helped by others if your approach is persuasively communicated to people.
Personal Relevance
Personal Relevance can create a massive impact on how people understand a conversation and relate to it. You must have seen that people tend to respond or act on issues that are universal and common to them rather than an issue that is unknown to them. This is because they have an experience of that particular feeling or incident in their lives. So always try to address topics with some sort of relevance to others to gain their interest in conversations
Novelty
Another step towards learning communication skills is to introduce novelty also. Your ideas might be the same as the listener’s but presenting them with different perspectives can lead to wonders. You can inform and educate through new ideas that are never known to anyone
Body language and Voice Tone
Body Language is a significant aspect of learning communication skills. If you are blunt while giving a piece of advice, it may sound like harsh criticism to other people. No matter how good the intention is your expression and gestures can transform your actions into one or a way to affect people. Sometimes they might get offended but sometimes they take it as a compliment so empathy is important especially when there is going to be some sort of criticism.
Brainstorming and Mind mapping
Brainstorming surely clears mind fog and helps you to get organized. So before actually performing or a starting formal discussion write things down. Highlight the important ones, and remove the unimportant part to make a clear concise meaning to your conversion. Write down questions and peculiar details you want to add. Maybe the expressions you want to talk with, any minor detail. Just, write down when you are inspired. This will help you with execution and performing with confidence
Giving Solutions
Try to give solutions to people during the conversation rather than endless criticism and complaining. Being positive does have a huge impact on yourself and others. You share that vibe, don’t you? Likewise, you feel the trauma when someone tells you a tragic part or sad story of their own. You tend to measure it on your scale as well like what would have happened if we had gone through the same situation? What would be our response?
Practice
Practice is one of the key steps towards learning good communication skills. It is seen that almost every other legendary performer or profound public speaker always practices before performing. So always practice, record yourself in front of the camera, and highlight the faults and developments to see that you have to improvise every single time you perform.
Believing in Yourself
Believe in what you say or fake it till you become it! The most crucial part to learn about communication skills is to have the right level of confidence in your body language and voice tone. People might not be a maestro at a topic but their affirmative tone makes you believe in them or even the rubbish they tell you. If you don’t have it fake it till you become it. Act like a lead character and it will be the truth of your life one day.
To conclude, I would highly recommend the book “Talk Like Ted” if you want to learn more about public speaking and communication skills. This book is a review and a compilation of famous TED Talks by personalities like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Moreover, it is such a simple and easy book to read that you will end up enjoying every chapter till you finish. The incidents and stories are explained simplistically understood and acceptable by everyone. Do read the book if you want to learn more and let us know in the comments.
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