Speaking Effectively In Business – Part One
As you have long years spent on the field, it is probably that you become like an expert who have a large amount of experience and expertise. The longer you stay in your industry, the more information you come across that you were not taught during your studies. Sooner or later you will have to share that expertise with others. But look, today the experience can be exposed by many ways, not just direct from your mouth to people’s ears. There are email, websites, and conferences which will need to deal with device like microphone. If you are people in the old age, maybe you are not expert on using these technology gadgets. And therefore, the problem is there when you need to speak or communicate with your clients through unusual device/ way.
Think that even if you are professional having a lot of knowledge and skills to inform others, but it does not sure there will be effective speaking done if you can not use the device well. On the other hand, in case that this is not your problem, you may have any other problem e.g. you do not know how to make sure you have effective communication.
It is also very important to make sure you have effective communication, beyond how to speak well and cover all subjects you want to inform your audiences. Do not think as you are expert in any field, your audiences will understand what you are saying, especially when you use specific language. Likewise, suppose that you are professional on law, but you are listening to those who is expert on computer, may times you do not know the meaning of some specific words he have said. Although your specific subject matter may be unintelligible to the lay person, it is perfectly clear to anybody in your own profession.
No matter what industry your audiences belong to, whenever you are passing information to another person or group, you are doing so precisely because that information is new to them.
In fact, the key to successful communication is as simple. Just think as what the listener think. What did you think when you are listener listening other speaking in front of the room when you have been to conferences, seminars and meetings. Often that these are things happens;
- The speaker tells us nothing new
- You can get the same information from internet
- The speaker was obviously expert but you do not know anything after the event
- Too much time was wasted on that seminar or meeting
- You were bored
- The speaker jumped from topic to topic randomly
These are things often happened in the meeting or seminar you have gone through, right? So, you now have known that what you should avoid when you become the speaker in meeting room.
The techniques for having good communication is simple, easy to remember and easy to apply. They work well for all situations. What you do before a presentation is more important than what you do during it. This mean it is necessary to learn these techniques to avoid the same mistake done when you are speaking. In part two, you will be informed these helpful techniques.
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