Effective communication is a truly crucial skill that you must learn if you wish to move ahead in your career. Regardless of what you do and what your intents are however if you can't communicate effectively then, your entire idea of progressing will bomb. You can't tell your plans and goals without an effective communication strategy. If you're confused while explaining something then, individuals will think that thing will also be confusing.
This is a natural reaction that every normal individual will give you. You might have seen that there are some individuals with a truly confident and alert tone and these individuals always tend to be more successful and managed in their lives than those who lack assurance and effective communication skills.
This isn't because the latter types of individuals don't have the working capabilities however it's simply that they can't motivate individuals to work for them and they may never convince individuals effectively to team up with them. Some individuals believe that simply speaking and expressing is communication however you ought to know that listening is a different truly crucial part of communication.
When you listen then, you are able to express yourself and these expressions promote or discourage the speaker to continue.
Communication is a crucial process that helps us to convey our feelings and without communication, we will not be able to share our experiences with other individuals.
There are assorted parts of communication like speaking, listening, emotions, and body language although each one of these is crucial to make communication effective. When you are able to master these all parts then, you may say that you have learned the art of communication.
Types of communication
There are 2 types of communication and you are able to call these 2 types verbal and no-verbal communication. Both of these are crucial in the way that they complete one another. There are different properties of verbal communication like words, language, voice, and others. When a youngster is born, he has vocal cords and as he grows he learns to command those vocal cords and to speak words.
A few words are just natural gestures such as crying out or laughing however with time, he learns to speak the language. Words solely have no meaning instead individuals give meaning to words by ordering them in different ways. Through speaking we always attempt to make things clear however this doesn't occur always. When we believe that something is relevant to us, we likewise think that this thing is equally relevant to others also however it is not like that.
You may experience lots of issues in speaking and the only way to handle all those issues is through experience. Speaking has basically 2 areas which are interpersonal speaking and public speaking. The most common is interpersonal speaking as we communicate mostly person to person and in order to do that effectively, you have to learn individuals and read individuals correctly. Manners matter most in interpersonal speaking and you ought to speak in a manner that the individual shouldn't be offended in any way.
Public speaking is a different area that you may improve by just observing some good speakers. Time has shown that some individuals are always good public speakers although others can't be truly good public speakers. Nonverbal communication is likewise an integral part of communication and as a matter of fact, in a few cases, it may be more crucial than verbal communication.
Situations may come where words won't let you explain things decently and in those situations, non-verbal communication comes into play. There are assorted parts of non-verbal communication like artifacts, haptic, chronemics, and additional similar things. Artifacts are the most crucial things which include your clothing, dressing style, jewelry, and other accessories which get to be part of your personality.
According to most experts, your wardrobe is the most crucial object in haptic and it may always send the effect of your real personality. Individuals may be often judged by their clothing style. Likewise, you may get an idea of feelings from haptic as well. The way you touch something or somebody may send a right or wrong impression which means you ought to be truly careful.
Types of personalities
The history of the 4 personality types, a.k.a. the 4 temperaments begins with Hippocrates 24 hundred years ago. He described the 4 personalities by naming them black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. So what do these fluids have to do with personality types? Hippocrates described these fluids as representing a person’s health. Black bile = Melancholy, Yellow bile = Choleric, Phlegm = Phlegmatic and Blood = Sanguine.
Melancholy, Choleric, Phlegmatic, and Sanguine are the 4 personality types of this day and age. Melancholy means that you're really analytical. Choleric means that you wish always to be in charge. Phlegmatic means that you are a nurturer. Sanguine means you simply want to have fun. Every personality has its own strengths and failings. Every one of us is a combination of all 4 personalities, but we all have a dominant personality type and a less dominant personality type.
Melancholy - also known as an Emerald, Green, Conscientious. The force of this personality is Thinker, Inventor, Planner, Analyzer, Accurate, Organized, Thoughtful, Detailed, Artistic, Philosophical, Perfectionist, Economical, Idealistic, and Purposeful. The failings of this personality are: Introverted, Easily Depressed, Over Cautious, Analysis Paralysis, Layed Back, Skeptical, and Pessimistic.
Those who have Melancholy people close to them ought to drop generalities from their vocabulary. Words like "always" and "never" won't be valued. If at all possible, dip the volume of your voice and keep your tone friendly.
If you're in a bad mood, see that you don't drip your negativism on them, they'll take it personally and be questioning all day what they did wrong. To convince melancholy you need to have details. They want to see all of the points on the PowerPoint and have them explained as well as any other detailed material. You may want to provide supplemental material with lots of details to them.
Excerpted from the book Communication Commando.
This excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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