At Confident Communicator™, our mission is to help you communicate clearly and dynamically and become an engaging and effective speaker! Through our communication skills training, we provide you with the necessary techniques to improve your communication skills and find your voice!

You have the potential to do so! All that is needed is the right guidance, professional training and useful and effective communication skills and techniques (skills and techniques upon which you can depend, even when you find yourself in pressurised situations!)

Whether you require additional communication skills to support your already solid communication foundation or whether you need involved support, know-how and assistance to help you realise your true potential, we, at Confident Communicator™, are here to help you become a skilled, effective and confident speaker.

Without effective communication skills, there is a tendency to feel frustrated, deflated or sometimes even crippled by self-doubt or lack of confidence in your ability to communicate clearly and effectively, which ultimately affects your performance.

Sometimes, putting your point across can be daunting, whether it be delivering a presentation, addressing an audience, speaking during meetings, speaking to the media, participating in group conversation or, simply, communicating with another individual. This lack of self-confidence can greatly affect your communication ability. It can be limiting at best and debilitating at worst.

We want you to become the confident, engaging, dynamic and effective communicator that you strive to be. If you succeed in improving your communication skills, we succeed.

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Article: Communication Skills Training

Communication Skills

There are two things in life that most people fear: death...and public speaking. Public speaking, can you believe it, rates higher than death!

In the book ‘Improve your communication skills’ by Alan Barker – revised 2nd addition, there was a study done in 2003 with a group of American Management. The association asked its members what skills make an effective leader; 84% believed that communication was key to being an effective Leader, interestingly enough though, Motivating others (56%) and Team Building (46%) came a close second and third. Both Motivating others and Team building rely heavily on effective communication skills and being able to speak in public without which the act of motivating or team building would not be possible.

Effective Communication Skills

In today’s fast-paced business world the need for effective communication has become more and more relevant. One large component is that much of our communication is happening through one technology-based form or another, which means that we hardly speak to each other anymore. We tend to hide behind our e-mails, sms’s and BBM’s rather than pick up the phone or walk to the other person’s desk (oftenfor fear of conflict or interaction with the other person). This, in itself has decreased our confidence in our speaking and social ability, which makes public speaking that much more scary and out of reach.

There are many benefits of communicating face-to-face in our world of technology, to mention just a few:

1. The first and most important one is that we have the opportunity to listen, speak, ask questions, show understanding and respond. Effective communication has then officially taken place.

2. The voice and the body work together to get one solid, clear message across, this is impossible over paper, e-mail, or via sms

3. We have the opportunity to see how the other person receives our information and this gives us the time to respond appropriately, sometimes winning them over to your opinion or suggestion.

4. You are not left to assume, misinterpret or misunderstand, which we do so often with the written word. When communicating face-to-face we can hear the tone of voice with which the message is being delivered, allowing the message to be strong and clear.

Improve your Communication Skills

Alan Barker, author of ‘Improve your Communication Skills’ – revised 2nd Edition puts it beautifully:
‘When we communicate, we never merely hand over information; we create meaning out of that information, and then share that meaning.
If the other person can’t understand what we mean, then our attempts to communicate have failed.’

So yes, communication is a skill that every human being should do his/her best to master, particularly as we are having to sell ourselves more and more in everyday life. Before we can sell our product or service, we need to learn to sell ourselves. Ask the person that has been to so many job interviews, he has lost count, yet still doesn’t have a job, all because hewasn’t able to answer the questions adequately or inspire confidence in his abilities. Or someone who didn’t get the promotion that she has been working so hard for, the feedback: she lacks effective communication skills.

Effective Communication Skills Training Courses

Communicating effectively is a skill that can be taught and learnt by doing specialised training courses in communication skills, including voice and speech training, public speaking communication skills training, and effective presentation skills training. Why is it then, that everyone is not biting the bullet, upping their game and changing their lives by enrolling themselves in a course that will equip them with simple yet essential communication techniques? Communication techniques that will enable individuals to build their confidence to stand up in public, control their nerves, channel their positive energy and engage their audiences with their personal touch of uniqueness and style.

Self-sell Skills

It is no longer about selling your product, it has become far more personal and it is now about selling yourself, through the way you use your voice, tone, pronunciation, body language, presentation of yourself and how effectively you can communicate. So I urge you, take the jump, and change your life by enrolling yourself in one of our specialised communication skills courses today.

 

Written by Lynsey Milewski (LTCL), Confident Communicator™ Facilitator, 22 March 2012