Tuesday, January 12, 2016

How to be an effective communicator?

One of the main reasons why a manager gets stressed if the job delegated to the subordinate is not completed in time and the productivity is not up to the expectation. In most cases manager blames the subordinates. One of the main reasons for not getting the desired result is the lack of effective communication skills. It’s not what you communicate but how you communicate plays the major role in every relationship. If a manager communicates in a commanding manner, he may get the job done but the employees will not perform whole-heartedly and the quality of the outcome may suffer.

You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but they are of no good to your Company, or your career, if you can’t express them clearly and persuasively. Barrack Obama became the President of United States of America on the power of his communication. We communicate on the basis of our values, beliefs, thoughts and knowledge on the subject. As a leader you need to communicate your ideas to delegate the task to be carried out by your subordinates. It’s not what you communicate but how you communicate plays the major role in every relationship.
Though the fault is in every one of us, but no one likes to be blamed and commanded by others. If you can communicate without blaming others, you can achieve better results in both personal life and professional life.

Everyone is right according to his perception. Even a mad person in the street is right according to his perception; otherwise he will not act in that way. If we disagree then the ego barrier of the other person comes up and disrupts the communication process.


Therefore the first step to open the gate of our communication is to agree with the other person and then put forward your views, opinions and objectives of the communication. If you respect the other person’s opinion, he will also respect your opinion to listen and channel of communication will open. To agree we must listen first. But very few people are willing to listen.

To be a better communicator, we have to be a better listener. Listening skills is one of the very difficult skills though it seems to be simple.

If I listen, then only I can understand the other person’s view. We must remember ‘listening builds trust’.

Replace ‘YOU’ with ‘I’, whenever you want to express your feeling. If you suppress
your feeling by not expressing the truth, you are inviting ‘Psychosomatic Health
Disorder’ in the long run. You can use this key in any language. There is no barrier
to express your feeling, replace ‘you’ with ‘I’ and observe the response from the

other person.