Birat Krishna Thapa
Communication is one of the key essential skills for succeeding in a global paradigm. With the advent of AI and other tools through technology that has globally disrupted traditional workplaces, communication as such will never be undermined. It will be an acquired skill to foster self-development and growth continuously.
Take our initial blog as an opportunity to expand your knowledge of the art of communication. The trick here is to stay abreast with the latest information, reading materials, scripts, or any other content that best suits your personal and professional growth. Your active participation and a desire to improve play key roles in this process.
Here are some strategies to communicate more effectively utilizing the texts and scripts that you may read.
Relevance – Take a moment, pause, and think, when you are about to take on any reading, there will always be this question in place, is this relevant? Every passage and or text that you read should apply to your daily life. You must be able to use them in your day-to-day language. The significance of texts that we consume shapes our way of thinking, and those that we read should apply to the present and future. Significance and relevancy are thus key parameters for growth and success.
Making your learning sufficiently challenging – Try to read more content in the form of articles, stories, or textbooks and find out what challenges you the most. Look into the sentence constructions, underline words that may need a dictionary reference, and most importantly grasp what is logical.
Learn to be competent – Always make sure that your reading material and content is constantly changing you for the better. The more you read the more competent you are to survive in this world that is growing with competition every single day.
What you read is what you become – We all have choices, multiple and unlimited in the forms of books, magazines, newspapers, or even the smart reader that you are currently reading. You have made a definite choice and the words that you read constantly shape your brain which reflects in your logic and reasoning.
Communication can be a challenge to many but along with practice and speaking exercises, you may find considerable improvement with time. Make sure you practice what you read, and utilize the words learned.
Making a suitable glossary of words as a practice will help in the long run. Other methods like making notes, rereading, and rehearsing phrases along with enunciation are practices that will help in the long run.
Creating scripts, conversational dialogues and scenarios concerning your professional surroundings will enable you to analyze areas of communication gaps.
Several tools are effective enablers for communication and practice, enunciation, pronunciation, suitable poise and gestures are just a few of them.
Once you find the perfect text that fits your needs practice the description. One of the easy ways to do it is to create conversations or a script. It will enable you to analyze lists of words that you may find difficult to enunciate, but there are tools available that will help you speak. Your first goal however is to find what is right for you that caters to your professional and personal interests which vary with individuals and expertise.
Communication, thus, is an acquired skill and by following simple practices listed above, you can become an effective communicator.