How to be an outstanding communicator

How to be an outstanding communicator

by MARTIN SHOVEL on 16/05/2011

Professional world clarifies its message that one must be a great communicator if one wants to hold the top position in his /her career.technical audit skills and practical exposure keeps importance but there is a huge and more importance of communication so one should transform him/herself from good speaker to outstanding one. So there are few guideline mentioned below to be a outstanding speaker.

Keep it simple

Outstanding communicators differentiate themselves by the pattern of using lingual and verbal cues. They prefer simplicity utmost. They avoid bombardment of jargons and use simple words in a way that make it easy to convey message to audience.

But simple is hard, and takes courage. It takes courage because it goes against the crumb of workplace communications. In organizations, language is often used as a protective veil whose main reason is to wrap the speaker’s back rather than inform their audience. A concoction of jargonistic words agreed into convoluted sentences is an effective way of covering up ideas that are half-baked, obvious, or trivial.

Many audience mistakenly associate this kind of overcomplicated, difficult-to-follow language with intelligence. The following example – though satirical – makes the point:

“Undue multiplicity of personnel assigned either concurrently or consecutively to a single function involves deterioration of quality in the resultant product as compared with the product of the labor of an exact sufficiency of personnel.” Masterson, J. and Brooks Phillips, W., Federal Prose, 1948, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina

What effect does language like this have? It intimidates, it excludes, it frustrates, and, ultimately, it wastes time (and therefore money!). It embodies everything that is the antithesis of outstanding communication. It is puffed up, self-serving – and, in the final analysis, like the emperor’s new clothes it leaves its author looking naked and foolish. Translated into the language of clarity and simplicity, the same gobbledygook becomes:

“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”

Beyond plain English

Clear, plain English is an vital part of good communication. It leads to transparency and which helps reader to grasp the précis of spoken workds. And it is the language of instruction and easily followed.

Clear explanation is the strong point of the good communicator. It has convincing power to snatch vote from audience to inspire them to follow through you. You have to speak in a manner that not only hits the mind but the hears as well. Barack obama was the one to hit the people heart by speaking plain in his debates during election campaigns.

Warming up your language

Modern neuroscience has demonstrated conclusively that we feel our way into decisions. Numerous case studies have shown that people with damage to the parts of their brain responsible for emotional reactions are unable to make decisions at all. It seems that the rational mind working by itself dithers endlessly as it weighs up the various possible reasons for taking one course of action rather than another.

So, if you want to be an outstanding communicator you have to set the target of touching the feeling of audience like engage them with feeling it will be easy way to engage the audience. Once audience comes to know that what you are speaking the time you will gain the realistic attention. Otherwise you can be defeated by psueodolistening.Words are the packaging for your communications, and if you want your audience to unwrap the packaging about your saying, you need to warm up your language.

Visual language

I will just quota a quotation qualified to Winston Churchill bid a good rule of thumb for selecting warm, visual words: “broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.” It’s no accident that the final lines from one of Churchill’s most famous and stirring speeches (“we shall fight on the beaches”) is full of “old words” – “beaches”, “landing grounds”, “fields”, “streets” and “hills”.

Just writing the other essential for becoming a outstanding speaker is : -

The multisensory power of concrete language

Story and metaphor

Putting it all together