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Communication is an effective tool in personal and professional life . Effective communication helps you to understand people in best way . It helps to build long lasting relationships and improves the effectiveness of your message.
Who you are ,whatever you do communication has outsize impact on us from every aspect. It is in dispensable requirement to succeed in life. It is a such thing which separates good or a bad businessman, high salary sales person and low salary sales person, better and best doctor and successful or unsuccessful lawyer. Here are 5 hacks that would improve your communication skills.
Be an active listener
We humans have 2 ears and one tongue, and we have to use same proportion in communication. But people behave differently they talk twice and hear the half of what they talk.
People now a days are losing the power of listening. I personally realised many people are half in and half out in communication, it creats misunderstanding among people. And this misunderstanding leads to miss communication.
If you want to become a good communicator, you have to become an active listener .Because listening breeds curiosity and it brings people together. When you listen someone accurately then you naturally become able to answer it in right and best way. So during communication keep your eyes and ears open and mouth maximaly closed.
Body language
Body never lies ( unknown).
That's universal truth whatever is going inside your head filters out through your body language if you are feeling uncomfortable at any place, or in communication you start fidgeting , shifting and rolling out your eyes and star looking randomly here and there etc.
In scope of evolution language is recent one for thousand of the years our ancestors communicated non verbally so body language holds the major portion in our communication.
Multiple studies have shown that more than 50% of our communication depends on our body language. If your body language is accurate, positive and powerful, it will help you to put positive impact on other people. Here are some tips to increase the score of your body language
- Maintain healthy and good amount of eye contact with people
- Stand erect and feel comfortable
- Direct your shoulder toward other person .
- Use your hands and fingers optimally.
- . Avoid using your mobile phone and playing with anything in your hands during communication.
Ask questions
Asking question is one of the best way to keep conversation going on . It makes people interested in communication.
Asking question is an art and science if you master it,hopefully you would master 50% of communication.
Answer follow question ,so you have to ask questions sensibly. Here are some tips to ask questions in right way.
Don't ask too much personal questions that can irritate people.
Ask open ended question because they are easy to answer by people. Open ended questions are those which don't have answer in yes or no and in open ended question the person has chance to give his or her opinion.
Somewhere I read formula to ask question and that formula is called ppid. It is abbreviated as
Passion, problem, interest and desire .
These four things are universal and common to all people . Ask question about these things and these four things will help you to connect with that people.
Be concise
We humans have limited attention Span and that attention span is getting shorter by everyday due to social media apps such as Facebook ,Instagram tik Tok etc. To communicate effectively keep your message clear and concise.
It would be better first to tell the main theme of your discussion. Use simple and universal language that resonate with your listener.
Say it little but say it well ( Irish proverb).
Brevity is soul of wit ( Shakespeare).
Start and end your communication in best way
We humans have bias to remember things. Experiments and research have found that the people remember more information and tend to be careful about things that are discussed at start and at end . Most of people forget middle things.
The best way to start your communication is to start with Salam or religious teachings and and end your communication with magic phrase such as nice to meet you ,I really enjoyed your company ,thanks for meeting etc. all these phrases caused nothing but has outside impact on other people.
Conclusion
Mastering communication is important to succeed in personal and professional life . When you master communication you open the door of endless opportunities for you, it helps you to connect with people and you deliver your message easily.
By following techniques such as being active listener, mastering body language, asking question, being concise
you can 10x your communication.
A simple technique to improve communication skills
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