How to Improve Communication Skills

This world might not exist if there is no communication from god’s end. God has given command in the form of communication and this world has formed. So communication is the utmost important thing that one should consider in his or her life. Without it, there will be nothing in this world.

Communication is the medium that gives you the opportunity to transform your ideas into another person. Just mere communication is not going to help you to grow in your life but it should be so much effective that it automatically takes you to the success path.

The good news is that we can learn effective communication skills just like any other skill. The more we work on it, the more we will be efficient in it.

There are Verbal and non-verbal communication exists in this world. Did you know that non-verbal communication is more effective than verbal communication? Verbal communication plays only 7% role and the rest of the portion was played by non-verbal communication.

So why Non-verbal communication plays an important role to make your communication very effective? Because it has a tendency to add essence to any kind of communication. No matter how important your topic is, if your body language is not satisfactory then there is no use in communicating it. Your body language is more persuasive than the verbal transformation.

To develop effective communication skills, you need to work on verbal as well as non-verbal communication skills.

So what are all things you should keep in mind to communicate effectively?

I will provide you with some pointers to work on and if you spend your time deliberately practicing it then I am damn sure that you will surely see the results.

Dominate: You will see that some people have a habit of dominating your ideas. They are not in the mindset to listen to you at all. They always think that they have a better idea to share and that your ideas are not effective.

People will such kind of mindset is not effective communicator because effective communication skills mean, one should not dominate others' ideas but listen to their ideas and opinions, and based on that he or she should come to the conclusion.

Questions: The kind of scenario you might have encountered in your life where some people just bombard with various kinds of questions but fail to understand what was told to them. They are not ready to listen to you but they are ready with another set of questions to ask.

This kind of attitude does not fall under effective communication skills. In order to make it more effective, one should listen to what has been told but not to bombard with a number of questions that will make things worse.

Past or History: Every people in this world have come from different background, religion, history, and many other things and we surely do not know what are their likes and dislikes. So while communicating if you add your past experience or history base information then there is no guarantee that the opposite person will have an interest in listening to it or not.

So do not take a risk of sharing your past experience or historical-based information unless required. Try to avoid it in order to make your communication more effective.

Share: Communication means what? It is sharing ideas with the opponent persons. It is sharing values with the person in need. So to communicate effectively you should have a mindset of sharing information or value with others who are in need.

Listen…Listen…Listen: Do you know that the reverse form of Listen is Silent?

Yes. To develop the best communication skills, you must possess good listening skills. Without listening to any kind of information from the opponent person, you cannot revert it back correctly and in turn, what will happen is that you will move on to another topic. So listen more and talk if required. That’s the policy of effective communication.

Learning attitude: When you are in conversation with someone you should have an attitude of learning. Every person who communicates with you wants to share some information and from that, you are getting a chance of learning something. It could be anything like how he is speaking, his body language, his language, his vocabulary, and so on.

So each time when you are communicating with anyone then along with receiving the information, have an attitude of learning despite of earning attitude. One should not keep a relationship with people just to fulfill their purpose and such kind of attitude will not last for long. So just have a learning attitude and you will surely have a good relationship with the people.

Feel: You should feel the opposite person who is talking to you and by doing this you will indulge in more interesting conversation because when you feel, your complete attention will be on receiving the information. By doing this, you will not forget the information received from the opponent person very easily because you were emotionally attached at that time to that person.

Body Language: Body language plays a very important role in the field of effective communication. I can say that this is the first thing that you should take care of while having a conversation with anyone. There are people who have a habit of looking somewhere else or not having eye contact or playing with their fingers or with any object when the opposite person is talking to them.

Such kind of bad habit is very distracting and it will create a bad impression in the mind of the opponent person and you cannot expect them to come to you again to share information. So If you are one of the people with such body language then you should work on it in order to make your communication more effective.

Confidence: When you are communicating with someone, you should talk with confidence. Then only the opponent person will have more interest in talking with you and he will like to get in touch with you more often.

If you want to know more about how to develop confidence, then check out my other post.

Think twice before you speak: As I told you earlier, you should listen more before speaking out something. So unless you clearly listen to what the opposite person is talking about then how you can revert to his information?

So you should listen carefully, think about what should speak on the basis of the information received, and then only you should decide what to speak on it. This is the most effective communication rule that most people failed to follow.

Clarity: Communication does not mean that you can tell anything and the opponent person will listen to it. As I said earlier, unless your communication is not effective, it is not guaranteed that the opposite person will have an interest in listening to your stories.

So there should be clarity in thinking before you speak anything and most importantly your tone of voice should be in such a way that it can be clearly understood by the people. Try not to speak too slowly or too fast. Make it neutral so that all the people can understand your ideas.

Conclusion:

That’s it guys. Not much more.

To conclude, if you want to achieve a high level of success in your life whether it could be at the workplace or in your business then you can simply apply the above-mentioned pointers on regular basis. Effective communication is an important tool that one can get in order to make their life more happier and successful.