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Communications Essentials for Good Impressions

Enhance your communication skills to project confidence, influence, sincerity, and trust. Understand verbal and non-verbal cues for effective interactions. Listening skills are key for successful communication. Learn to speak and listen effectively for good impressions.

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Communications Essentials for Good Impressions

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  1. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions

  2. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions • Project image of confidence • Demonstrate power or influence • Express sincerity, interest or cooperativeness • Create trust • Recognize personal tension

  3. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist & poet

  4. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions What’s wrong with this scenario?

  5. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions

  6. Non-Verbal Communication • Body Language • Powerless • Overpowering • Powerful

  7. Non-Verbal Communication

  8. Non-Verbal Communication

  9. Non-Verbal Communication

  10. Non-Verbal Communication Are you going to the store?

  11. Non-Verbal Communication • Tone of Voice • Powerless • Overpowering • Powerful

  12. Verbal Communication • Effective speaking • One on one conversations • Speaking in front of groups

  13. Verbal Communication • Building rapport • Small talk • Matching non-verbal signals • Body movements, facial expressions, gestures • Matching verbal signals • Rate of speech • Vocabulary • Language

  14. Verbal Communication http://blog.ernestsemerda.com/2010/03/26/primary-human-modes-list-words/

  15. Verbal Communication • Public speaking • Know audience • Know your surroundings • Be clear on objectives • Mix stories and data • Involve audience • Develop effective speaking style • Practice

  16. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. - Epictetus, 1st century AD Greek philosopher

  17. Listening Skills • Listening vs. hearing • Effective communicator listens THROUGH words • Requires preparation • Treat as mental task, practice • Recognize personal biases/ paradigms • Avoid communication barriers • Accept responsibility for understanding

  18. Listening Skills (cont’d) • Establish rapport • Physical actions • Show desire to listen • Pay attention • Focus on main ideas • Take notes • Mentally evaluate and summarize • Avoid distractions

  19. Listening Skills (cont’d) • Provide feedback • Reflect by paraphrasing • Ask questions to clarify • Defer judgment • Allow speaker to finish • Remain open-minded • Finish listening before starting to speak

  20. Listening Skills (cont’d) • Respond appropriately • Respond with candor and honesty • Assert comments respectfully • The Golden Rule • To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. • - John Marshall; Chief Justice, US Supreme Court, 1801-1835

  21. Communications Essentials for Good Impressions • Body language and tone of voice are as important as the content of what you say • The way you speak has a powerful effect on people’s first impressions of you • Communication is a two-way street, and you have to actively listen to hear, and understand what others have to say

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