Communication skills

How to use communication skillsto get what you want?

The ability to communicate is one of the most important human skills needed for effective day-to-day living. Good communication skills are almost the key to getting everything you want and need in life in the easiest and simplest way possible, and the better and stronger your
communication
the easier it is for you to get what you want. What exactly is communication skillsfind out what the communication barriers are, how to make your communication better and other important information in the rest of this article!

What are communication skills?

Before assessing your communication skills, you need to find out what they really are. Communication skills include:

  • the ability to justify your views and opinions
  • the ability to persuade and argue your point of view;
  • resolve conflicts
  • ability to work in a team or alone
  • oratorical skills, the ability to present information to an audience;
  • business etiquette, etc.

It is not possible to hone your communicative skills to absolute perfection, but it is possible to train your abilities to the point where there are no communicative barriers in your communicative expressions.

What is communication barriers?

There are three types of communication barriers – misunderstanding, authority and avoidance. More on each of them below.

Avoidance

The avoidance barrier can also take the form of inattention. This barrier occurs when your interlocutor or the audience you are talking to sees you as a dangerous person, a threatening person, an enemy or a person who does not wish them well.

Authority

Listeners trust or distrust you not because you might give false, invalid information, but by assessing you as a person – whether you can be trusted, whether the listener or group of listeners likes you.

Irrefutable

There are four types of incomprehension barriers: phonetic, semantic, stylistic and logical. Phonetic incomprehension barrier occurs when you speak in a foreign language, too fast, unclearly, swallow your lips, speak with a heavy accent or otherwise make the verbal sounds you produce unintelligible, unintelligible. By contrast, the semantic barrier to understanding occurs when the information you are presenting is not clear in terms of its content – you are talking about an unfamiliar topic or using terms and concepts that the audience or interlocutor does not understand. The stylistic barrier of misunderstanding occurs when the style and form in which you present information is not acceptable to the audience, while the logical barrier of misunderstanding comes when your listeners are unable to accept and comprehend your arguments and your logic.

Do I need to write a CV on communication skills?

By offering your candidacy to the employer, communication skills CV is advisable as it will help your potential future employer to understand you better and to investigate your suitability for the position more quickly, which means a quicker response, an invitation to a job interview and, if the interview confirms what you have written in your CV under “My communication skills“, and get the jobs you want faster.

How to improve your communication skills?

Communication skills can be developed from the time a child starts to speak in full sentences, right up to old age. To do this, it will be useful to, communication skills courses
At the Centre for Personal Development (NLP Centre)
.

How to use communication skillsto get what you want?

How to please people? How to become a good interlocutor? How to get people interested? How to guide the listeners in your way of thinking? With the magic of communication! There are three magical golden rules:

  • be a good listener – don’t interrupt, listen to understand not to answer, ask clarifying questions, show interest;
  • become a mirror – People naturally have mirror neurons, which make you mirror your interlocutor’s gestures, posture, tone of voice and speaking style – don’t block it, this mirroring makes you more likeable to your interlocutor;
  • paraphrased – by confirming what your interlocutor says, rephrasing it and repeating it as if to show your agreement, you will gain more trust and sympathy.

Of course, respect your interlocutor, don’t use the phone if you don’t need it for conversation, use open body language and you will become a master communicator!