Unit 4 Text B Sharpening Your Basic Skills
Unit 4 Text B Sharpening Your Basic Skills
Warm-up ·According to the author,what does“basic skills'”mean? Have you ever employed any skills for persuasive communication? In communication,what should you put into consideration about your listener? Is there any secret in persuasion?If so, what is it? How do you make your statements appropriate for listeners and situation? How can you make your general language specific?
Warm-up • According to the author, what does “basic skills” mean? • Have you ever employed any skills for persuasive communication? • In communication, what should you put into consideration about your listener? • Is there any secret in persuasion? If so, what is it? • How do you make your statements appropriate for listeners and situation? • How can you make your general language specific?
outline The spoken word can be a powerful tool for gaining and using personal power. ·Practice Empathy. Developing the Art of Persuasion. ·Vatch Word Choice. Use Specific Language
outline The spoken word can be a powerful tool for gaining and using personal power. • Practice Empathy. • Developing the Art of Persuasion. • Watch Word Choice. • Use Specific Language
The spoken word can be a powerful tool for gaining and using personal power.Therefore, it will pay to continually sharpen your skills in persuading people and in getting through to them with clear instructions,questions and responses.Keep developing skills in tuning in to the other person's viewpoint and gearing your messages accordingly.And remain aware of your responsibility as boss for taking the initiative to establish lines of communication with your people and to keep lines open.Let's review some suggestions for sharpening these basic communication skills:
The spoken word can be a powerful tool for gaining and using personal power. Therefore, it will pay to continually sharpen your skills in persuading people and in getting through to them with clear instructions, questions and responses. Keep developing skills in tuning in to the other person’s viewpoint and gearing your messages accordingly. And remain aware of your responsibility as boss for taking the initiative to establish lines of communication with your people and to keep lines open. Let’s review some suggestions for sharpening these basic communication skills:
Practice Empathy. To be aware of what your listener will value as a payoff,try to put yourself in his or her shoes.How is your listener likely to feel about your message?What pressures is he or she under?How calm and confident is he or she feeling? What kind of relationship do you have? If the topic is controversial,is there anything the two of you can agree on to begin with?
Practice Empathy. • To be aware of what your listener will value as a payoff, try to put yourself in his or her shoes. How is your listener likely to feel about your message? What pressures is he or she under? How calm and confident is he or she feeling? What kind of relationship do you have? If the topic is controversial, is there anything the two of you can agree on to begin with?