Effective Communication Skills - The Art of Learning

           Communication is one of the key components of human life. It facilitates human beings to have transactions in every aspect, be it a conversation for personal or professional or business purposes. There are quite a lot of ways to improve effective communication skills be it verbal or written or both. Some of the important practices can be strictly adhered to see a significant progress are as follows.

Reading of Articles or Books or Novels to get an insight and experience of a different world :

Reading plays a pivotal role in the learning process for an aspirant if that individual wants to enhance his skills. Reading unfolds the door to comprehend the subject matter of a specific incident or an event or a theory pertaining to any discipline. It provides an insight which might be useful for the person although he hasn't experienced it. Reading helps to replicate the same things in their life in due course of time or helps them to better equip to make decisions. Reading also helps you to gain knowledge which can probably used to better perform in the interviews or group discussion or host of other challenging recruitment processes.

Addition of Vocabulary in your arsenal as a constant process:

There must be consistent efforts to learn new words and its usage on a daily basis. This can be achieved only through reading habits. There shouldn't be any kind of restriction in learning new vocabularies irrespective of the subject matter that you read through. Whether it’s related to Science, Commerce, Technology, Software or any other discipline, you must have insatiable thirst in you to learn them. Make it as a habit to learn at least 10 words a day and create opportunities to use them appropriately.

Be a great listener 

Listening skills will help you to understand the substance of the idea in an effective way. It must be a complete one without interrupting the delivery of message by the speaker or moderator or an anchor of programme. This process helps you to learn the style and the methodology to be used while speaking as you learn it from the experience of others. It helps you to adopt a specific tone, texture, expression of emotion, and delivery techniques if you follow the best of the speakers on this earth.

Make your accent to be the generally accepted voice

You need to make your accent which is acceptable and clear for the listeners.

This can be achieved by watching news channels or movies, and echo the same presentation or conversation through your personal efforts simultaneously while watching it

You must practice it as a process to replicate it, be it a British or an American accent. Everything can be accomplished if we really put our heart and soul into the practice programme with an estimated time and an action plan to see astounding results. 

Make a habit of writing articles or posting your views on your blogs.

Writing of article provides a great scope for you to improve your writing skills. It helps you to employ what you have learnt in the reading process. It helps you to know the difficulties of writing and also acts a barometer for you as to what you ought to do to make a transition in writing space. You could write poems, articles, short stories, movie reviews, provide feedbacks for the contributors of articles on various portals. You could also plunge-into writing Books or Novels to showcase your creativity to the world at large. You can also involve in translating a different linguistic books into English version.

You must always be describing about the world around you in your mind and its significance.

It’s one of the ways you could gain knowledge through describing the factors that’s influencing your ecosystem, the demography, the changes to the ecosystem. It must become a practice to express things around you as it will help you improve your speaking abilities of different aspects of your life.

Watch news and movies on Television

It’s a great practice to watch news to get to know about the current affairs, technology revolutions, political environment and host of other stories. You could echo the expression of anchors on the programme to ensure you are able to follow their accent and if possible reproduce them for self improvement. Hollywood movies probably help you to understand their style of conversation, the delivery of it, and the variation in the emotions while making a point. Yet again, you need to practice them to ensure you are on par with their accent. 

Its fruitful only if you practice on a daily Basis

The above techniques can be effective only if it’s actuated with passion to see real outcomes. There must be clearly defined goals on each of these items, a time –frame needs to be set up, an action plan needs to follow. There must be a constant self-introspection whether the individual is really progressing well with action. An individual must also get feedback from reliable people to know if they have observed any significant change in their communication skills. It must become an integral part of their life until their death.