Effective communication Part 1- E2Logy Training Series
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This document discusses four key skills for effective communication: listening, nonverbal communication, managing stress, and emotional awareness. For listening, it provides tips like focusing on the speaker, avoiding interruptions, and showing interest. For nonverbal communication, it suggests observing body language, being aware of cultural differences, and ensuring nonverbal cues match words. Managing stress involves recognizing when stressed, using humor, compromising, and taking breaks. Developing emotional awareness helps understand others, communicate clearly even in difficult situations, and build strong relationships.
Effective communication Part 1- E2Logy Training Series
- 1. Effective Communication Part 1 Leadership training series Ruchhir Agarwal
- 4. Words, Tone or Body language?
- 5. Skills needed Skill #1: Listening Skill #2: Nonverbal communication Skill #3: Managing Stress Skill #4: Emotional Awareness
- 6. Tips for effective listening - Focus fully on the speaker, his or her body language, and other nonverbal cues. If you’re daydreaming, checking text messages, or doodling, you’re almost certain to miss nonverbal cues in the conversation. If you find it hard to concentrate on some speakers, try repeating their words over in your head—it’ll reinforce their message and help you stay focused. Skill #1: Listening
- 7. - Avoid interrupting or trying to redirect the conversation to your concerns, by saying something like, “If you think that’s bad, let me tell you what happened to me.” Listening is not the same as waiting for your turn to talk. You can’t concentrate on what someone’s saying if you’re forming what you’re going to say next. Often, the speaker can read your facial expressions and know that your mind’s elsewhere. Skill #1: Listening
- 8. - Avoid seeming judgmental. In order to communicate effectively with someone, you don’t have to like them or agree with their ideas, values, or opinions. However, you do need to set aside your judgment and withhold blame and criticism in order to fully understand a person. The most difficult communication, when successfully executed, can lead to the most unlikely and profound connection with someone. Skill #1: Listening
- 9. - Show your interest in what’s being said. Nod occasionally, smile at the person, and make sure your posture is open and inviting. Encourage the speaker to continue with small verbal comments like “yes” or “uh huh. Skill #1: Listening
- 10. Skill #2: Nonverbal communication Tips for improving how you read nonverbal communication - Practice observing people in public places, such as a shopping mall, bus, train, café, restaurant, or even on a television talk show with the sound muted. Observing how others use body language can teach you how to better receive and use nonverbal signals when conversing with others. Notice how people act and react to each other. Try to guess what their relationship is, what they’re talking about, and how each feels about what is being said.
- 11. Skill #2: Nonverbal communication! - Be aware of individual differences. People from different countries and cultures tend to use different nonverbal communication gestures, so it’s important to take age, culture, religion, gender, and emotional state into account when reading body language signals. An American teen, a grieving widow, and an Asian businessman, for example, are likely to use nonverbal signals differently.
- 12. - Look at nonverbal communication signals as a group. Don’t read too much into a single gesture or nonverbal cue. Consider all of the nonverbal signals you receive, from eye contact to tone of voice to body language. Anyone can slip up occasionally and let eye contact slip, for example, or briefly cross their arms without meaning to. Consider the signals as a whole to get a better “read” on a person. Skill #2: Nonverbal communication
- 13. Tips for improving how to deliver nonverbal communication - Use nonverbal signals that match up with your words. Nonverbal communication should reinforce what is being said, not contradict it. If you say one thing, but your body language says something else, your listener will likely feel you’re being dishonest. For example, you can’t say “yes” while shaking your head no. Skill #2: Nonverbal communication
- 14. ! - Adjust your nonverbal signals according to the context. The tone of your voice, for example, should be different when you’re addressing a child than when you’re addressing a group of adults. Similarly, take into account the emotional state and cultural background of the person you’re interacting with. Skill #2: Nonverbal communication
- 15. ! - Use body language to convey positive feelings even when you're not actually experiencing them. If you’re nervous about a situation—a job interview, important presentation, or first date, for example—you can use positive body language to signal confidence, even though you’re not feeling it. Instead of tentatively entering a room with your head down, eyes averted, and sliding into a chair, try standing tall with your shoulders back, smiling and maintaining eye contact, and delivering a firm handshake. It will make you feel more self-confident and help to put the other person at ease. Skill #2: Nonverbal communication
- 16. To deal with stress during communication: - Recognize when you’re becoming stressed. Your body will let you know if you’re stressed as you communicate. Are your muscles or your stomach tight and/or sore? Are your hands clenched? Is your breath shallow? Are you "forgetting" to breathe? - Take a moment to calm down before deciding to continue a conversation or postpone it. Skill #3: Managing Stress
- 17. Skill #3: Managing Stress - Look for humor in the situation. When used appropriately, humor is a great way to relieve stress when communicating. When you or those around you start taking things too seriously, find a way to lighten the mood by sharing a joke or amusing story.
- 18. ! - Be willing to compromise. Sometimes, if you can both bend a little, you’ll be able to find a happy middle ground that reduces the stress levels for everyone concerned. If you realize that the other person cares much more about something than you do, compromise may be easier for you and a good investment in the future of the relationship. Skill #3: Managing Stress
- 19. ! - Agree to disagree, if necessary, and take time away from the situation so everyone can calm down. Take a quick break and move away from the situation. Go for a stroll outside if possible, or spend a few minutes meditating. Physical movement or finding a quiet place to regain your balance can quickly reduce stress. Skill #3: Managing Stress
- 20. Skill #4: Emotional Awareness Emotional awareness helps you - Understand and empathize with what is really troubling other people - Understand yourself, including what’s really troubling you and what you really want - Stay motivated to understand and empathize with the person you’re interacting with, even if you don’t like them or their message !
- 21. - Communicate clearly and effectively, even when delivering negative messages ! - Build strong, trusting, and rewarding relationships, think creatively, solve problems, and resolve conflicts Skill #4: Emotional Awareness
- 22. Words, Tone or Body language?
- 23. Recap
- 24. Recap Skill #1: Listening Skill #2: Nonverbal communication Skill #3: Managing Stress Skill #4: Emotional Awareness
- 25. Thank you