How to Improve Communication Skills?

To improve communication skills to the greatest level, use these after you are familiar with the driving principles of communication. You can use some of these starters to integrate the principles rapidly and naturalize them.

Understanding the principles will drive these behaviors in the correct direction to improve communication skills. Else you may end up........ I cant even imagine where

So, you ready for the stuff you can do right away? Me too! Let’s rock.
 

Get into unfamiliar circumstances that tend to put your brain into learning mode.

The best mode of quick learning is the mode of Unfamiliarity. When you are in a familiar and comfortable situation, your brain tends to be lax and less attentive. That’s why off-site training is more effective than on site. It is not just the cost you know? (Communication is never about the cost, it’s more about the result). One of the best way to improve your skills to find people who are successful in that particular area and see how to improve communication just like them

So decide what is it that you want to integrate into your behavior? Choose one of the exercises to improve communication skills. Go and get your feet wet in uncharted territories. Now common sense needs to be used often while you do it. Remember situational judgment?

Overcome hesitation by asking for stupid things at shops

If you have trouble of being very sensitive, are self conscious, if feel that you always need to be correct and things like that, Do this one. It is very liberating. Because of my huge ego, I had a real problem of needing to be right all the time. Once I started this exercise, it was so revealing and relaxing.
 

I went to a food joint and asked for a haircut! My heart was beating fast and I was sweating after I asked. I repeated the question when the waiter was confused. They said sorry we don’t do that here, I said “ok. Thank you” and ran away. It was fun. Now all my colleagues and friends do it often when they find themselves stuck in a situation. I don’t know why it works. But I can tell you, it does wonders in improving your communication skills.

Learn a new language.

The best way to make your brain muscles work and flex.
Language is one of the greatest gifts to humans and probably all our progress is due to the fact we can speak and understand each other.

The unfortunate side effect is that people are getting into more and more linguistically created barriers. It is not as complicated as it sounds
 

An example can help you.
You ask some one “Do you like reading books?” and they may say "No, I have never liked reading books”. So this person is binding himself to not liking books for ever. How could he have broken this spell?
 

Well by saying something like “no, till now, I have not liked reading books.”
 

That gives him a chance to like books at least in future
To come out of such binding linguistics, I suggest you learn new language. It will refresh your existing language connections in the brain and improve communication skills in many ways.
Something like deleting the temporary internet files and refreshing the browser page for faster access to the web pages.

The Rewrite Rewire Effect

Take a 500 word article; rewrite it to express different emotions i.e. the whole article should reflect only one emotion. The more you can express with lesser words, the better. The idea is to make you juggle your language on demand. In turn this will flex up your brain and fire your imagination.

Language, like your face, is a way for expression. We all get used to seeing different expressions on face but, forget to do so with our language. This exercise will go a long way in developing flexibility of language and develop your communication.
 

The Left and Right Co-ordination Exercise

Do the left and right coordination exercise to activate your creative abilities by making use of your non dominant hand.
 

Principle: The creative part of your activities is controlled by right brain. Right brain also controls the left part of your body. When you want to make use of the best of the both world and when you want to improve communication skills, keep them synchronized. 90% of population is right handed and no doubt they don’t make more use of their left hand. Use your left hand to do some of the basic things like brushing your teeth and eating.
 

At an advanced level, write with left hand. These activities will sufficiently increase the dormant power of your right brain. If you are left handed, just do the opposite i.e. if I ask you to do something with left hand, do so with right hand? The exercises are given in the order of difficulty. Feel free to tear it apart and do it any way you want. There are no rules for creativity.
 

The aim of these activities is to improve communication skills by improving your right-left brain synchronization.

Bottom line: Do things differently. it will improve your communication skills
 

1. Brush your teeth with left hand
2. Use only left hand to eat and open doors
3. Draw with left hand. draw or do any other activity while you are engrossed in some thing else like talking
4. Start mirror writing with right hand
5. Learn to write with left hand
6. Learn to write with left hand and right hand simultaneously
 

There is a lot more you can do. Let your creativity run and you will come up with some new ideas to take your communication to a whole new level!. To improve communication skills constantly is like sharpening your sword.
 

Remember it becomes easy to improve communication skills when you realize that you are becoming more and more flexible and last suggestion, try the links below

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What's next?

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It will help you realize where you stand and give you the direction and the tools to get the best results in the fastest possible time!!!