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Communication is the lifeblood of the business. No business can develop in the absence
of an effective communication system.
Communication is the mortar that holds an organization together, whatever its business
or its size.
When people within the organization communicate with each other, it is internal
communication, and when people in the organization communicate with anyone outside
the organization it is called external communication.
Ability to work well in teams, to manage your subordinates and your relationship with
seniors, customers and colleagues depend on your communication skill.
Techniques:
1. Listen:
Ask for the question to be repeated: This ensures that you understand it. It also gives
you a little more time to prepare.
2. Prepare: Take your time getting ready to speak, You may be given a short time to
collect your thoughts. If not, as you are walking from your seat to the front, use this time to
prepare as much as possible. Whatever time you have, use it to prepare an outline.
3. Relax:
4. Act Confidently:
6. Focus
Be brief.
Use the speech techniques you have learned, especially maintaining good eye contact.
Make your conclusion memorable: The final part of your speech will make the most
impact on your audience
Some other tips: smile, use ur energy, don't apologize, Tell a story, capture the first
thought, make a pause, avoid filler, and remember to give a summary.
Requierments: An elevator pitch is a brief, persuasive speech that you use to spark
interest in what your organization does. You can also use them to create interest in a
project, idea, or product – or in yourself. A good elevator pitch should last no longer than a
short elevator ride of 20 to 30 seconds, hence the name, They should be interesting,
memorable, and succinct. They also need to explain what makes you – or your
organization, product, or idea – unique. A successful elevator pitch will end with an
exchange of contact information and an invitation to a personal meeting. To this end, you
need to arouse the interest of your potential employer or investor so that they want to hear
more about you or your business idea
Anticipate problems.
+ Persuasive
+ Audience oriented: concentrating on looking at the problem from the perspective of the
audience
+ Clarity and conciseness: stick to the point and doesn’t meander around or include lots of
extraneous information.
Seven major elements of communication process are: (1) sender (2) messages (3) encoding
(4) communication channel (5) receiver (6) decoding and (7) feedback.
(1) Sender:
The person who intends to convey the message with the intention of passing
information and ideas to others is known as sender or communicator.
(2) Ideas: This is the subject matter of the communication. This may be an opinion,
attitude, feelings, views, orders, or suggestions.
(3) Encoding:
Since the subject matter of communication is theoretical and intangible, its further
passing requires use of certain symbols such as words, actions or pictures etc.
Conversion of subject matter into these symbols is the process of encoding.
(5) Receiver:
Receiver is the person who receives the message or for whom the message is meant
for. It is the receiver who tries to understand the message in the best possible manner
in achieving the desired objectives.
(6) Decoding:
The person who receives the message or symbol from the communicator tries to
convert the same in such a way so that he may extract its meaning to his complete
understanding.
(7) Feedback:
Feedback is the process of ensuring that the receiver has received the message and
understood in the same sense as sender meant it.
1. Clear: An oral communication become effective when the message is clear for the
audience or receiver as the sender wants to convey. Oral messages are often misunderstood
because the speaker does not talk distinctly. So, for this purpose clear pronunciation is very
much required. To minimize this kind of problem a speaker tries to workout on different,
lengthy, and unusual words for clear pronunciation.
2. Concise: Many people enjoy while talking and sometimes oral communication suffers
from the problem of over-communication. But when the speaker keeps on talking for long,
his/her message will be distracted. So it will be advisable to speakers to try to keep the
message as brief as possible without changing the real message.
required. While communicating with others makes sure that you have paid attention to the
below questions. Checking for the five w’s questions Who where when what why.
6. Courtesy: Courtesy involves you-attitude. Use polite words for oral communication.
Tries to avoid irritating expression, sincerely apologies for any mistake, do not use any
discriminatory expressions which are related to individual people, race, ethics, origin,
physical appearance etc.
7. Candid: When the speaker chooses the candid approaches, its mean that their message
should be straight, open, frank, outspoken. But not hurting particular individual.