Some assertive scenarios

Today I bring you a video that I made with some classmates to explain the assertive techniques with some examples.... Hope you like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6H5TbtdKg

Some ways to develop our communication skills. Part 3

This week I´m going to tell you about the most known part of the communication, the voice. When we speak, we must do so using a clear voice without mumble, people hate to ask for repeating, try to avoid that articulating yourself in a proper way. In professional life, your bosses will judge you by the vocabulary you use, an IMPORTANT FACT is that, if you´re not sure of the meaning of a word, don´t use it. The speed of talking is also important, as it may evidence your nerves, don´t talk too slow though, you don´t want anyone finishing your sentences. And we have the typical characteristics of voices, the volume and the tone, mid tones are usually easier to hear, regarding to the tone, you should modulate it, if you´re alone and in a close place, and louder in larger places or when speaking to groups.

With this post we finish the series of developing our communication skills, see you soon!

Assertiveness, some things you may not know

The assertiveness it´s commonly defined as a learnable skill, the skill of saying whatever being confident enough to defend your rights or convictions, always in a respectful way. It belongs to the psychological field, it´s located between the two polar behaviours: aggressiveness or passiveness.
The assertiveness, as any skill, can be trained, and should be trained, it´s going to help everyone, not only those who always feel guilty, also those who don´t have much confidence and are not use to express their beliefs.
An assertive person accepts his mistakes, says what he thinks without caring about what other people think about him, and it´s able at the same time to defend what he says.

Some ways to develop our communication skills. Part 2.3

We conclude the non-verbal developing skills part with this post, today, we are going to talk about the attitude you should have when someone is talking to you, as you may know, this is also an important part of the communication.

The first thing you probably know is that we have to be respectful with the others, it´s a matter of education, but we have to be careful, as it´s easy to hurt people´s feelings when making a critique. We have to make constructive reviews, being at the same time honest, patient and optimistic, always believe in the others competence.

Develop listening skills lets us to learn from our mistakes, when someone is giving us feedback, for example, the possibilities of earning knowledge from the others are very high, and listen carefully is the only way. TRY TO AVOID THE IMPULSE TO LISTEN FOR THE END OF THEIR SENTENCE, SO THAT YOU CAN BLURT OUT THE IDEAS YOUR MIND WHILE THE OTHER PERSON IS SPEAKING.

Hope you like it and see you the next week with more!