4 Ways to Beef Up Communication Skills

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:47:44 +0000

Communication lies between the key link between people and getting work down. It is essential that we become proficient in communicating. However, not all of us are born with the talent in communication. We struggle to understand and even convey our message to the other party. The lack of communication skills becomes a breakdown between two parties and sometimes being misinterpreted resulting in misunderstanding or misaligned goals. By focusing on levelling up our communication skills, we can better understand, better convey the message between two parties. Here today, we give you a different view point on how to beef up your communication skills that touches on the technical aspect instead of the conventional “empathetic listening”.

Improve your vocabulary – The problem most of us face is our limited vocabulary of words. We do not understand the words used when they are used in the communication. We may even misinterpret its meaning to something we think it should be. This is problematic! When we misinterpret words, we risk the chance of misinterpreting the objective of what the other party wants to achieve! To avoid such problem, the only way is to improve our vocabulary. By improving our vocabulary, we know more words; our arsenal of words that can be used in communication also increases. It becomes easier to communicate as we are flexible in our available of words to use. We can use different words to convey the same meaning to another party when they have difficulty understanding it. On another view point, the arsenal of words allows you to better understand messages convey to you too!
Ask when in doubt – Do not feel embarrassed to ask what a word means even if you’re in the middle of a conversation. Obviously, it would be pretty difficult to complete the building the list of words in our arsenal. Clarify with that person on the meaning of the word. Loosen up on the egoism. Break free from fear of being mock at. You benefit more than you know you can loose more by clarifying the meaning of the words.
Speak more – You become more effective by practising what you learn. This greatly applies to communication. The more you speak and use the new learned words (and phrases), the more proficient and confident you are in using them. You will be also more comfortable when someone communicates to you using the same word and phrases.
Listen more – Same with taking time to speak more. You get more confident in the new words. You learn how the new words are being used in different context. Through listening more, you become more aware of its proper usage and also wrong usage of the words.

To sum up, it is critical to improve communication skills by increasing our vocabulary. An improved vocabulary allows you to understand and convey message better to another party. However, building a complete set of vocabulary may take ages to do so. Therefore, learn from different available channels as much as you can. Such as clarifying when you are in doubt in the middle of the conversation, taking chance to speak more and listen more. All these, will help you beef up your communication skills and avoid any misinterpretation.

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4 Ways to Beef Up Communication Skills