5 tips for improving your communication skills

You know your job. You meet the deadlines. And you constantly look for new challenges.
But when it comes to putting your message across, you fail miserably. And in your dreams, you wish you’d a genie that could turn around your communication skills and make you a great communicator. The good news is you no longer need a genie to improve your communication skills. Because there’re some easy ways out there that have helped many – and there’s no way they wouldn’t help you.

#Tip1
Take a break – and enroll for an employability training program
Believe me, a well-crafted employability skills training that focuses on soft skills help a ton in improving the confidence and public speaking skills of a person. Go for a one-to-one training. Or, learn in a group training program.

#Tip2
Work on your body language
You say a lot even when you don’t say a word – body language is what I’m talking about here. You can buy a book on body language or watch some videos on YouTube.
And you might learn about body language in an employability skills training program as well. For instance, you should avoid taking phones or looking at them constantly when someone is talking with you. It looks rude. Also, when you’re discussing something with someone in your office or family, try to avoid crossing your arms across your chest. There’s so much more about body language that once you learn will make you a good communicator.

#Tip 3
Listening
Great communicators aren’t those who talk a ton – instead they’re those who listen a lot. Listening, true listening is a tough job, but this is what makes an ordinary conversation a great opportunity to learn about the other person, to send your message across effectively, and to be perceived as a great communicator.

#Tip 4
Tell them a story
We’re wired to fall in love with stories. So try to be a good storyteller. When you’ve a story, people really look forward to listen from you. No, I don’t mean you literally tell them a story of a fairy and a demon. Just structure your speech, sprinkle some questions here and there, and keep your conversation short and sweet.

#Tip 5
Tweak your message to your audience
You behave different when you’re in the office and are having a conversation with your colleagues or boss. And then you go home and become a changed person, right? Similarly, you got to change your speech or message depending on whom you’re talking to. This sounds like common sense, but I have met people who really fail to understand the different in their audience and thus they fail miserably as communicators. So next time when you’ve something to say to your boss, go out, sip your tea, and think about what exactly you would say and how.

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How to make your people super performers?

“Only the people who take learning, growth and skills development into their hands will be tomorrow’s leaders.”
-    Alli Worthington 


Organisations are now on a different path altogether – they’re creating leaders within and outside. They’ve understood the enormous value that a driven individual can bring to his / her work and to the organisation at large.

Facebook, Google, Tata, Infosys, take any global organisation and you’ll see the immense role that training programs are playing in the success of these organisations. But the training programs that are delivered within the premises of these entities are not the regular programs – they’re different, very different in content and in approach.

Now what you can possibly learn from these companies is their approach towards their human asset and the way they’re emphasizing on their personal and leadership skills. You too can replicate their model – get to know the sheer value that global training solutions add to the growth of an organisation and then get engaged with a leading training outsourcing firm. The good thing is we, in India, have a pretty good number of global training solutions companies that have been around for years and have worked with diverse industries.

Picking a training outsourcing company might be a daunting task at first. But stick around for a little and you’ll eventually figure it out. Follow your guts. Meet several companies working in the training space. See whether they have experience and resources of up skilling your people. And then go with the one that makes perfect sense in your case.

What is equally important is setting the desired outcomes right at the onset of the program. Discuss this in detail with the training company that you pick. The content of the program has to be tailored in accordance with the training needs and interests of the participants. And for this, you might want the training outsourcing company to conduct a thorough needs-diagnostic study so that they know their role very well.

You might be the owner of the business or you might be the HR manager – whoever you are, you understand the kind of efforts that go in the making of a workforce that thrives in this increasingly competitive marketplace. Thoroughly structured global training solutions are the magic wands that you’d need to transform the very way your people think and act at your workplace. Trainings don’t have to be expensive, but they have to be highly targeted and engaging. 


How about finding out more about the impact that global training solutions make to an organisation? We’ll tell you all in our forthcoming articles. So just stay connected.