We have to learned to be assertive, we've become an effective communicator and also understood, how to make balance in our earlier 3 steps.
Now, here we'll be learning 8 techniques to create that instant impression, it just doesn't matter with whom you are; whether it's your office, home or any other place. After leaning these techniques, you can gain the knowledge to create that instant impression. you’ll discover some non-verbal forms of communication that help to inject emotion and energy into the way you communicate. I’ll share some techniques you can use every day. They won’t only help you to come across assertively but they’ll help you to feel more confident too.
Let's begin leaning it one-by-one:
Eye not only sees, speak also a lot:
How many times you've felt that your colleagues are talking to you without looking at you? There are two reasons behind lack of constant eye contact:
Shyness
Distraction
It doesn't matter though but in both the cases, negative message are being spread across. Your eyes are the most expressive part of your face. You should use them as much as possible. They have the ability to convey emotions such as interest, concern, warmth and credibility. Imagine talking to someone wearing sunglasses. It’s much harder to read their feelings when you can’t see their eyes.
In Modern corporate world, specially during a meeting, its extremely important to maintain eye-contact. Try to maintain eye contact but make sure you are not staring. Although, practical implementation of maintaining eye-contact is kind of a bit tricky in the start but once you master at it, you'll find amazing difference.
Using your hands effectively:
In the beginning of your career during a meeting or presentation, obviously you want it to be more intriguing where-in using your hands definitely works wonder for you.
The receiver can understand the message more concisely and precisely and an image related to that context can be formed in their mind if they're following your gestures but one thing you have to note here is, that you should not overdo it & also practicing it, while standing in front of a mirror, let you clearly distinguish the difference between when to use and when to not use it?
Lastly, It’s helpful to have a resting position for your hands when you’re not using them. Otherwise, you may look as though you don’t know what to do with them.
Keep yourself away from distractions:
If you've notices top professionals, speaking with audience (different age group), they seem to be carrying that rigidness. They are absolutely aware about the surrounding and more importantly, they knew exactly where they might go wrong?
So, its necessary that you should be aware about your surrounding, the topic on which the presentation or that meeting might be happening, if possible, try to get the information about the audience. By doing this, you won't feel distracted and it won't be visible on that stage in the eyes of receiver and its resulted in getting that confidence, you required.
Smile:
Smile more, it reduce stress.
Smile, it create positivity.
Smile often, it gives you aproachability.
Smile, gives you tremendous confidence.
Facial expressions:
Have you every watched Charlie Chaplin Shows, there is no audio, its' only facial expressions, different body gestures, effective use of hands, eyes. legs etc. and just by seeing that one can easily recollect the message "Charlie Chaplin" wants to share. Truly Fantastic, isn't it?
but even after having all the facilities, we just can't able to communicate well, majorly in the beginning of first job. That's where, confidence plays an important role irrespective of the fact that what others might be thinking?
because if you do that, you will see that you even don't have to speak lot and you can be an amazing communicator by using perfect facial expressions.
Voice Modulation:
Perfect use of intonations, exemplary use of pitch of your voice and superb punchlines in between the speech plays a significant role in giving emphasis of certain important words and even it gives you enough time to get more ideas and also keep a remembrance of the topic, if you forgot.
Try recording yourself. Say the same sentence but vary your voice each time. Try a different speed, pitch and volume. See what a difference it makes.