Some ways to develop our communication skills. Part 2.2

We follow this week where we left the past one, with the non-verbal communication, so, we were talking about the importance of looking at the person to the eyes when you´re talking to him, today we are going to talk about some different aspects of communication.

When we talk we have to make gestures, so that our communication is effective, but we have to make gestures with the body also, we should make our whole body talk. What it´s not very common to know is that the gestures should be smaller if the group we´re talking to is small, and increase the gestures with bigger audiences.

Another important thing is that we should send understandable messages, so that people couldn´t misunderstand them, don´t send mixed messages, to do so you have to make your words, facial expressions and tone match, you can´t discipline someone if you´re smiling at the same time. So you have to be aware about what your body is saying, open stances means that your are open to what somebody could tell you and that you´re approachable, these kind of stances could make a difficult conversation to develop easier.

Some ways to develop our communication skills. Part 2.1

Here I bring you the second part of this group of posts where I tell you advices to be more communicative, today we are going to talk about the audience we have when we are talking, we have to engage them somehow if we want his attention.
The first thing you need to know it´s to make eye contact, it is known that, "the eyes are the reflection to the soul"for example, you can see if anyone it´s not confidence on what he is saying only by the movement he is making with the eyes:

As we can see in the image, there are basic cues that let us to know what´s happening on the head of the person your are talking to, they are involuntary, so it is 100% sure. And here is the tip! Try to focus on the eye of the listener, and then focus on the other eye, and then back again, this helps to look your eyes more sparkle, you can also try to put an imaginary "T" on his face, with the horizontal line of the "T" on the eyes, and then scan that "T" again and again. These tips can be used as a listener also, as the development of good listening skills is something truly important. I will divide this "non-verbal communication part" into two, as I don´t want to make very big posts. Hope you like it and check this funny image out!