How Can I Improve My Communication Skills?
Hey guys,
I'm currently a college student, and I was wondering some ways that I can improve my public speaking and communication skills?
Thanks.
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Its all about confidence. Write yourself a short (
Get a job in sales or on a political campaign. Join your local toastmasters chapter.
agree with all above. also, take note of great speakers in your job/school/on tv, whatever. analyze what makes them good speakers, how they construct and link thoughts, etc. then attempt to implement these into your everyday conversations, presentations...
I definitely agree with all of this. If I may add, I would suggest practicing your communication skills with your family and friends. Where else do we start but within the vicinity of our home and school.
Disagree with practicing presenting in front of your friends, no one wants to do that. If you're a business major, you'll probably give numerous presentations over the course of 4 years so that should help. If you're really serious about it then join a local toastmasters, if you're school is big enough then there might be a school chapter. Practice is the only way to improve.
additionally i know that my school had offered classes like public speaking that were really helpful to some. look into that.
Join the local Toasmasters chapter. This organization is solely dedicated to improving public speaking and communication skills.
Don't drive to school, just walk. Along the way, talk to yourself the whole time about random intellectual topics out-loud. May sound crazy and stupid, but hey it works
It's all about confidence.
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Your right, that crazy guy at the bus station rambling about the moon landing just oozes confidence.
Communication skills are about the following: 1. A clear message 2. Body language that portrays the verbal message 3. Right context and situation 4. Timing and delivery 5. Culture intelligence. It is also beneficial to increase your vocabulary and use different lexicons with different cultures. Do not go to Harlem throwing out words that they don't care to ever use in conversation, don't go up to MD calling him bro, etc., and don't say "hey baby" to a random girl.
You have to create EMOTION! Here are two videos that will help you:
On EMOTION: Ryan Gosling addresses the average joe in this video from Crazy, Stupid, Love (2 mins)
On BODY LANGUAGE History Channel's Secrets of Body Language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQENwD-QlRA
What do you guys think about improving communication skills with your supervisors? I think that there needs to be a change in the way we communicate with them. Ie not fucking around with stupid fat jokes etc etc.
I don't think anyone tries to do that in a professional setting. Unless your boss starts that kind of joke.
Hi Public and communication skills are very important as with the help of it we can interact easily with other people. There are various schools that provide training to the individuals so that they can improve their communication skills. I have also joined one of the school named Inlingua Utah for improving my skills. It is the school which also helps an individual in learning different types of languages.
Food for thought: What if you have a regular persona but end up under a quirky boss?
Hi wallstreet246 Nothing is more destructive in the workplace than difficult bosses. Every employee has a series of bosses over their working career. Hopefully, most of your bosses are competent, kind, and even, worthy of your trust and respect.
Unfortunately, too often, employees have difficult bosses who impact their desire to engage and contribute at work. It is no surprise that employees who quit their job are most frequently leaving their bosses, not necessarily the company or their job. In my opinion, you must keep calm and never give up.
Communication makes you relaxed. Stress relates to how we manage ourselves with the world. You become relaxed by assertively telling someone “no” if they ask you to do what you don’t want. You no longer worry over the world’s reactions if you respond from control within yourself.
Any recommended reads to help you have better communication and people skills? (Originally Posted: 01/24/2013)
Are there any books out there that helped you become more socially intelligent for networking and building connections?
Thank you all in advance!
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How to win friends and influence people is like the Bible for that kind of stuff.
I'm on a quest to finish all of the cliche business books. I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" last night. Common sense, but worth reading if you have the social skills of Edward Scissorhands.
I recently did a pretty thorough search for threads on writing skills, and there was surprisingly little. Figured there'd be more with ER being a fairly big part of WSO.
Google is extremely useful for helping with writing skills.
Best one for networking I've found is "Never Eat Alone"
It seems like all the content I need to read is within the title.
You need a book to tell you how to be a functional human being with basic social skills? Interesting.
How to Improve Communication Skills (Originally Posted: 02/27/2015)
"A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical." -Conrad Black
Does anyone have any creative ways that they have used to improve their vocabulary and communication skills overall?
English is my first language; I read quite a bit and always refer to a thesaurus when writing which I feel has assisted me quite a bit but there are always people that never fail to impress with their use of the English language.
Join Toastmasters.
I've heard good things about the Dale Carnegie courses, but they are quite expensive.
Practice, practice, practice. Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People," make conversation with everyone you know, and don't get hung up on always trying to say something witty. When given the opportunity to speak in public, do it.
Read a lot - prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, anything you can get your hands on. When you find a style of writing that you like, try to emulate it. I think that "The Elements of Style" (Strunk and White) is one of the best books on communication ever written.
You can run through vocabulary books (Merriam-Webster's Vocab Builder is great), which will put "bigger" words in front of you. It's a matter of finding a balance, though. Using too many "college" words can come off pretentious. However, dropping a "tremendous" instead of "huge" in conversation is always fun; likewise with "ebullient" instead of "excited," and things like that.
The biggest key to effective communication is being to the point: don't say something in 5 words when you can say it in one.
It's also worth reading Vonnegut's "How to Write with Style:" http://kmh-lanl.hansonhub.com/pc-24-66-vonnegut.pdf
I'd also recommend running through "The Art of Styling Sentences." Great way to quickly make your writing stronger, just by using new sentence patterns. http://www.amazon.com/The-Styling-Sentences-K-D-Sullivan/dp/B0096DJZB2
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Maybe it's just me but I think "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is almost psychotic. I really enjoy motivational and self-help type books that are well written, and this is a classic, but I wasn't impressed at all.
Not every interaction should feel like a game where you're trying to derive some form of gain from.
Look up Real Social Dynamics and watch some of their videos. It frames itself as a way of picking up chicks, but at the heart of it, it's about building yourself up internally. Obviously some of it you have to take with a grain of salt (or many), but it's helped me communicate, be more comfortable with myself, and handle rejection. Check it out for a bit if you want
If you want to improve your communication skills then you will have to do the practice regularly for that, listen the online tutorial of communication skills, and join the training center who will provide you with the best communicational skills training to improve your skills and knowledge.
There are various ways to improve communication skills :
1.Learn the basics of nonverbal communication
2.Engage the audience in discussion
3.Body language matters
4.Start and end with key points
If you want to improve your communication skills and confidence in public the you have to do chat with friends and family, watch English language movies, listen to English language songs, and read widely in newspapers, magazines and books. These will immerse you in the language and improve your understanding and fluency at a good pace, with interest. Read more books. Use a dictionary and learn at least five new words each day and try to speak the new words you have learned. Take some English speaking classes.
I did an online course around leadership on coursera, should be easy to find as I think it was quite highly rated. But nothing beats actual practice. I've recently joined toastmasters and its much more beneficial.
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