You Can Become More Effective at Communication

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You Can Become More Effective at Communication

If you think about all of the people you know, you may notice that there are a number of different styles of communication – and some are better than others! You can become more effective at communication – and one of the best ways of doing this is to learn what works well and what does not.

Good communication is generally a matter of give-and-take interactions. When this is in regard to personal communication, basic respect and a sense of equality between both persons are good points to keep in mind. You may know people who believe that they are communicating with you, while what they are actually doing is attempting to convince you to do something, to accept a viewpoint which you disagree with, or to convince you that they are right and you are wrong. While this may have its desired results in some areas, such as business dealings, it is certainly not a “plus” in personal interactions.

You may also know someone who feels communication is “all about” themselves. There are people who talk about themselves endlessly – as you will have discovered, this is not effective communication. Equally distressing is the person who truly believes good communication is about nothing but talk – and is quite capable of talking about nothing.

You do not want to appear boring, pushy, or self-centered like those people; so what are the alternatives? Good, effective communication is a give-and-take venture. Good, effective communication not only focuses on topics of interest to both persons, but also includes the participation of both persons. Both true listening and speaking are required.

Some people find it necessary to develop good listening skills. The point to keep in mind is that listening is not simply about hearing what the other person is saying, it requires genuine interest on the part of the listener. You are not truly listening if you just wait until it’s your turn to speak!

When you have become more effective at personal communication, this will help you to become more effective with your communications on other levels, also. You will see that the power of speech can be used correctly, or it can be misused; and you will begin to recognize the difference in yourself and in others.

If you are not certain as to whether or not you are good with communication, you can put yourself to the test. When you are in the position of communicating with someone, note how much you are absorbing of what he or she is saying. You will find that if you are really interested in what the other person has to say, you are actually listening? It will help in the conversation if the other person is interested in what you have to say; if he or she seems bored or distracted, perhaps it is time to take a break from your speech and let the other person have a chance.

Effective communication is not difficult; but in many cases it is a skill which needs to be learned and practiced. Both you and others will benefit greatly!

Effective Tips to Help You Have Better Communication During Online Dating

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Effective Tips to Help You Have Better Communication During Online Dating

Communication is the key to any relationship. If you communicate well, you will win over the hearts of others and also prevent a lot of trouble and confusion. Here are some tips to ensure that you are able to communicate properly and get the best dating results:

1. Clarity in thought: You have to be clear in communicating intentions, thoughts and desires in order to build a strong and lasting relationship. There is no point in fibbing or beating round the bush as that creates complications and a lot of confusion, which in turn may lead to the break up of relationships later.

2. Honesty: Integrity is of essence, especially when you are creating an online profile for yourself. It is always better to be truthful in providing information about yourself, your likes and desires because the nature of responses you get will be based on this.

3. Being Respectful: When you are communicating via e-mail or chat, it is always advisable to be respectful, considerate and courteous as it builds an atmosphere of trust and affection too. Any loose or casual communication can often have unwarranted effects.

4. Feedback: When you are enjoying communicating with someone else, it pays to given them informal or even subtle feedback that you are enjoying being connected with him/her. This reinforces the positive feeling and leads to better relations.

5. Compliments: When the relationship is flowering, it would help in providing more direct cues in terms of complimenting your date, their thoughtfulness or other aspects that appeal to you.

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How To Build Effective Communication Skills?

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How To Build Effective Communication Skills?

We are all aware of the importance of communication in our daily as well professional endeavors. Having effective communication skills is considered to be one of the keys to leading a successful life. Generally, people learn how to communicate during their early years and that learning gradually builds up with time and life experiences. However, effective communication in particular is not something that people necessarily learn during the course of their lives. Some do and some don’t, but this does not mean that those who don’t can never learn how to communicate effectively. Just as other skills can be learned and improved gradually with the right training, determination and practice, effective communication skills can also be learned and improved over the course of some time with the aid of proper training and continuous practice.

It’s generally observed that people, who have good oral and written communication skills, tend to easily tackle challenges that life throws at them. Those people normally tend to do better at work, get early promotions, get along well with others and lead satisfactory lives. Hence it’s imperative to continuously learn and build up your oral and written communication skills. Consider the following five important elements that are necessary to build effective communication skills.

Improve language skills

The more knowledge you have about the language that you use for communication, the better. Improve your vocabulary and practice newly learned words by using them in your daily language. During communication, try to avoid saying long sentences. Try to make your sentences short and to the point. This may be difficult to do initially but with practice you’ll get better.

Listen with concentration

If you are having a conversation with someone, listen to the other person with concentration. This will ensure that you have a good understanding of the other person’s point of view before you speak. Generally, people tend to concentrate more on what they are going to say instead of listening to the other person with full attention. Therefore, both fail to understand each other and the conversation does not go anywhere. Effective listening will allow you to reflect back on what the other person said and your response will be more relevant and to the point. It will also make the other person feel good and s/he will be more responsive to what you say.

Learn to handle objections

Never enforce your point of view on others and never think or assume that whatever you are saying is absolutely right and unobjectionable. Always be mentally ready to face objection on whatever you say and don’t become defensive right off the bat. Open your mind to other possibilities. If an objection is thrown at you, look at it without prejudice and know that you could be wrong and always be willing to accept it.

Learn to control your emotions

You should try to be in control of your emotions when you communicate, especially negative emotions. During a conversation, if something is not said according to your liking or in line with your point of view, don’t get angry. Keep anger at a mile’s length and always keep reminding yourself that you have the right to control your reaction. In case of a conflict, try to reach a compromise by finding a solution that makes both people happy. If you get defensive and angry at any point, it is more than likely that the other person will do the same.

Learn to master your body language

People are more visual and they generally tend to make an opinion about what you say by observing how you say it. During a conversation, your tone, your volume, face expressions, hand gestures and other body movements make the most impact on the other person, even more than your words. So mastering your body language and synchronizing your gestures with your speech will help you achieve your objective to become an effective communicator.

Barriers To Effective Communication: 3 Obstacles To Effective Communication And How To Overcome Them

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Barriers To Effective Communication: 3 Obstacles To Effective Communication And How To Overcome Them

Isn’t it annoying when people don’t seem to understand where you’re coming from, or when they just don’t get the message you’re trying to communicate? Unfortunately, certain barriers to effective communication cause these things to happen quite often.

Barriers to effective communication can take on different forms. They can be physical, psychological or even emotional. Below are some examples that you might want to avoid in the future.

Barriers to Effective Communication # 1: Negative Atmosphere

The room you’re in, or the tone of your voice can affect your communication.

A room that is dimly lit or cluttered can distract your audience, or make them feel too uncomfortable to even consider what you’re saying.

When you speak, having a tone that is too harsh or too soft also affects the communication process. Practice speaking in a moderate and clear voice.

Barriers to Effective Communication # 2: Lack of Knowledge

Even if you’ve taken care of the atmosphere, you can’t exactly expect everyone to know what you’re talking about as well as you do.

When you have something you wish to communicate, give a brief backgrounder and speak in layman’s terms.

Avoid jargons and use words that are simple enough for a 10-year old to understand. Attempting to look smart by using “difficult” words will only confuse your audience and give you an unfavorable impression.

Barriers to Effective Communication # 3: Emotional Distress

Emotions are a lot more difficult to deal with than lack of knowledge. You can’t control a person’s feelings, and trying to do so might make things worse.

Learn to sense and read people’s moods so you’ll know exactly when the best time is to talk to them. If the person you intend to talk to already looks stressed and harassed with work, try not to burden him with more of the same discussion. Be more observant and alert so you won’t miss the signs.

Don’t let any barriers to effective communication hinder your success. You have to put yourself in the shoes of your audience. Many effective speakers know what their audience wants and try their best to give it to them. Believe me, a little consideration goes a long way.

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Effective Communication

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Effective Communication

The bare knuckled fight for the democratic nominee has me hooked! Not only am I fascinated by the race but I am also floored by the poor level of communication displayed by some of the candidates’ communication staff. With a mixture of um’s, err’s, mumbled words, poor eye contact and closed body language I can only imagine the success they could achieve if they chose to communicate effectively.

Whether it is a job interview, a salary negotiation with your boss or the race for the White House – choosing to communicate effectively will ensure you are heard the way you want to be heard. Effective communication is not a reflex response so can be difficult to use but luckily it can be learned, practiced and mastered. This article aims to explain what effective communication is, why it is so important and also to provide you with 10 tips to effective communication.

I encourage you to read on, to continue to communicate effectively and to start to notice the difference.

What is effective communication?

On average, about 70% of our time is spent communicating, whether it is verbal, nonverbal or through listening, reading or writing.

In basic terms, communication is the transmitting of an idea or an opinion from one person or group to another person or group; an exchange of ideas. Effective communication is required to ensure the message is delivered, received, interpreted and acted upon in the way it was intended. Whoever you are office junior, CEO or stay at home dad, effective communication is key to achieving both your personal and professional goals.

There are two main elements to Effective Communication, assertive speaking and active listening.

Assertive speaking – To project yourself (verbally and non verbally) in a direct, confident and relaxed way, in order to be able to deliver your message, image or idea in the way that you meant it to be heard, whilst at the same time encouraging the audience to do the same.

Active listening – Utilizing empathy and respect to listen to both the content (verbal) and the emotional (non-verbal) elements of the message, idea or image being delivered in order to hear the message as it was meant to be heard.

Effective communication requires more than just words, it needs positive, direct and confident body language, facial expressions, pace, and tone of your voice to all add weight to what you want to say.

Professor Mehrabian of the University of California looked at how face to face communication is received by any listener. The research discovered effective communication is based around 3 main areas, with the content or words used only accounting for 7% of the whole message.

Impact of communication
Facial expressions / gestures / body language55%
Tone of voice38%
Content / words7%

Achieving Effective Communication

At school we are taught to read, write and speak appropriately. I am sure we can all remember a teacher telling us to ‘be quiet’ or the ever popular ’shut up and (listen)’. But the lack of formal training to listen, coupled with stress, deadlines and tension at work it is not surprising that we can go through our work and home life without properly listening.

We are often caught in a ‘tug of war’ scenario where more than one person is trying to speak at the same time, struggling for control of the conversation resulting in no-one receiving the right message. Tension is created, the conversation takes an adversarial tone and ineffective communication takes over. Effective communicators are aiming to achieve a ’see-saw’ style interaction, where one person is the speaker and the other person is listener. This usually switches between the people involved as they aim to achieve the same goal – mutual understanding and collaborative working.

10 Tips to Effective Communication

Here are 10 tips for active listening and assertive speaking taken from my Effective Communication Toolkit.

1 Eye contact and body language – There is no need to stare the speaker out but do retain an appropriate amount of eye contact so that the speaker can tell that you are listening. Without eye contact they might assume that you have switched off. As the speaker you want your audience to be focused on what you are saying and not on the fact that you are playing with something in your pocket or glancing nervously toward the exit. As a listener ensure you display a positive set of body language – an open posture, make encouraging non verbal gestures – such as nodding or smiling.

2 Tone and pace of your voice – Change the pace and tone of your voice to match the words you are saying. When you want to emphasize a specific point – speak with more urgency – maybe varying the pace and increasing the volume of your voice. This encourages people to listen to what you are saying as oppose to a monotone which might just send your audience to sleep!

3 Responsibility – Take ownership of your message and show you believe in what you are saying. Ensure you know your subject so you retain your confidence throughout – especially at question time. Speak in the positive – be relaxed, confident and direct – emphasize what you CAN do.

4 Direct and confident – The listener will be more open to any message being delivered if it being done so in a direct and confident manner. The message will be believable and the audience will be confident in what you are saying.

5 Solution focused – Your message will more likely be heard if it is positive with clear thought through solutions. Avoid apportioning blame or pulling up past challenges but focus on what can be done now.

6 Do your homework – Do some research before presenting or speaking to an individual or group you are unfamiliar with. This will ensure that your message is delivered in a way that is appropriate to your audience.
7 The full message – As a listener note taking can help so you can keep up with what is being said and easily refer back for clarification. Take in the full message and remember that the words are only 7% of the overall message.

8 Probing and open questions – If you are in anyway unclear as to what is being said, ask open ended questions. They start with when, where, what, why, who and how. These types of questions generate dialogue. Closed questions (questions that elicit a yes/no answer) are best used at the end of a funnel of open questions to gain agreement or acceptance of an issue or to lead to the end of a conversation.

9 Non-judgmental – Although the message you are listening to might not have your agenda at its centre, there are more positive ways of adding to this than casting your own judgment. Avoid judgmental statements in your feedback and caution the use of questions starting with ‘why’ as they can often carry a judgmental tone. As an alternative to ‘why’ use ‘ perhaps you could walk me through your thinking around…’. This invites the speaker to be more open.

10 Sharing relevant examples – Sharing a relevant example will encourage the speaker and might give weight to their message. Ensure you do not detract away from the speaker by putting your agenda first.

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Nokia 6500 Slide – a Virtual Treasure-trove of Communication and Entertainment Facilities

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This very impressive offering from the house of Nokia has several key features. Now it is possible for the users to take brilliant quality pictures using a 3.2 mega pixel camera adorned with optical wonders like Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus and 8x digital zoom. A very strong double LED flash ensures that your indoor pictures are just perfect. With the help of this phone it is now really easy to share pictures and videos with friends, family and other near and dear ones via TV-Out. Further, the facility of 3G video calling helps the users to feel even closer to all those they care about. Another good thing about this devise is that now it is possible to Connect straight way to Flickr™ website to start sharing your photos, music files and other data with friends and relatives.On the imaging and video front the makers have left almost no stone unturned to ensure highest quality facility for the users. The 3.2 mega pixel camera coming with added optical functionalities like Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus and double LED flash gives 8 x digital zoom, macroshot in landscape mode. Also one can take sequential shots with the help of dedicated 2-step capture key. To make the process of capturing video and pictures very dynamic and flexible the horizontal mode enabled with capture and zoom keys allows the users to use Nokia 6500 Slider like a digital camera.Using this marvelous gadget it is possible to Use PictBridge™ in order to print copies of your most favourite images and pictures. Still moving ahead on the path of better pictures, it is very easy to giving finishing touches to ones pictures using the Adobe PhotoShop software installed in the phone. Video recording can be a real fun using VGA (15fps) and QCIF (30fps) resolutions which in turn are equipped with 4x smooth zoom. The camera supports H.263 MPEG-4 in .3gp format to touch the heights of class and style in pictures. There is a secondary camera for facilitating video calling (QCIF resolution, 15 fps) and allied activities. Using this great handset one can now add a new dimension to his/her conversations with the help of 3G TV video calling and TV conference via TV-Out functions.Apart from this, Nokia 6500 Slide is a really great treasure-trove of applications and games. It supports Java™ MIDP 2.0 applications which allows the users enjoy games like High Roller Casino, Golf Tour and Rally 3D. Other facilities include Yahoo Go, Nokia Catalogs, Nokia Sensor and Flash Lite 2.1.1 all of which are really handy tools for entertainment.As far as messaging and e-mails are concerned, this phone can give a very healthy competition to the PCs. There is the facility of multimedia messaging (MMS) for creating, receiving, editing and sending various types of videos and pictures. The handset has the ability to push email client supports attachments to make the process of sharing entertainment pieces quite a satisfactory method. There is a very comprehensive set of text messaging like it supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging and SMS distribution list to enable the users go for instant messaging with ‘Presence-enhanced contacts’ which really makes the process of sharing and caring quite wonderful. Using Nokia Xpress audio messaging (AMS) available with Nokia 6500 Slide one can now send an instantly recorded voice piece via MMS.On the music and multimedia front this phone has a music player supporting MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA in audio file formats. The facility of Visual radio enables the users to listen to favourite musical tracks, interact with near and dear ones, and watch out for information about favourite FM radio channels and much more