Sunday, October 11, 2009

How to Improve Your Verbal Communication Skills

Although nonverbal communication has made up a large percentage of our daily interpersonal communication, we should not overlook the important of verbal communication. Verbal communication is so crucial in our daily life because we always use it as a tool for communication with people around us. However, not every person is good in it. As a result, a lot of miscommunication happens among one another and many of us do not take action to correct our mistakes even though we are aware that we had made a mistake. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunities encourage each of every one of us to take actions to improve our verbal communication skills.

There are several ways to improve your verbal communication. First and foremost, you can use positive words to challenge your limiting beliefs. The words you use to express your thought will determine how your emotion is. Next, you can tell or narrate a story before you want to get people’s attention. You can do so by telling some jokes or narrate a story as well as reading a quote. People will feel comfortable to talk to you after you tell or narrate a story. Besides, people will feel relax and more opened to listen to your problems.

Subsequently, you must ask the right questions. Asking the right questions will give a positive debate and interaction that will benefit to all of us. Moreover, it can reduce the unnecessary arguments by expressing your skills of communication effectively. In the same time, you must think and prepare before your speak. We should think by using our brains and not depend on our emotion. In addition, you can reduce the usage of verbal cue. We should not use verbal cues too frequently because it will irritate the listeners and causes the listeners to lose interest. Lat but not least, you should avoid careless language. A careless language will create a lot of problem to the consumers.


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Lai Shu Tiing

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