How Important To Your Success Is Verbal Communication?

Whether you are talking to a possible client or future joint venture partner for your latest project how you say it can may or break the deal. With less and less in-person contact we have to hone our verbal skills or risk our success.

If you aren’t in front of someone they don’t have non-verbal cues to go on. The phone is always better than email which leaves out voice inflection.

Successful Communication

Communicate Successfully

Communication stimulates our minds to think about how we verbalize. Research recently has suggested that young adults and children are losing out on the necessary building blocks of communication by using text messaging and emails.

Savvy trainers and teachers are turning off the computers and phones and having face time in person. If you can’t get together think Skype and turn on your webcam. Not only will having to use non-verbal body language help you with your client or contact it will give you an opportunity to get dressed up for you day which brings you a subliminal success message.

If this isn’t an option try using your smart phone as a phone. Apple’s face time is no longer a novel idea as more business entrepreneurs use it’s potential to share not only your highly motivated smile but a peak at the success graph you just emailed them.

Think Before You Speak

There is nothing worse than looking great on paper or in your linkedin profile only to not be a good verbal communicator.

Here is something I do with my success circle clients.

There are many types of communication. When communicating by talking (verbal) there are questions, commentary, editorials and more.

Stepping back before we answer is a good motto to hold onto. It doesn’t mean waiting so long the other party thinks we don’t understand; it’s thinking BEFORE answering.

How do we do this?

Simple: Practice

Take one breath in and out slowing while thinking first about the question and then what you want to say before saying it. With practice you’ll become a natural.

Tools: I use a set of question cards I made for my clients. They select one a day and read the question using this practice step. Then I have them write out a dozen for me!

Learning how to formulate the question helps you better communicate answers to questions.

This communication practice and tool can be used to become a better communicator in most any verbal communication style.

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