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INNOVATIVE WORKSHOP ON EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
AND CAREER PLANNING.
1) WHAT IS COMMUNICATION.
Communication is the way or the mode through which we make peopleunderstand what we want them to understand.
E.g.: By crying, small children make their mothers understand that they
are hungry.
By licking our feet and wagging its tail, dogs communicate that they
like us and they want us to pamper them.
Effective communication is to communicate in such a way as to
influence others to our way of thinking.
2) TYPES OF COMMUNICATION.
a) Oral communicationb) Body language.
3) ORAL COMMUNICATION.
a) Speaking skill.
b) Listening skill.
4) SPEAKING SKILLS.
a) The intent: We should always have the intention to please the
listener/s. We should derive pleasure in speaking to others.b) The content: We should know, what we are speaking about.
c) Body language: We can be more effective by using our hands,
shoulders, eyes etc, appropriately.
5) LISTENING SKILLS.
a) The intent: We should be keen to understand and learn what others
want to tell us. The speaker will loose interest in speaking, if we do
not show any interest in what he/she is speaking. We can reflect our
interest by asking relevant questions, by emoting etc.
b) Body language: We can also show our interest through our body
language like visible facial expressions, voice, etc.
6) Ways to get rid of stage fearness -
Start speaking in a closed room imagining that you are addressing the
crowd. Start speaking in front of a small group, initially known people
like relatives, then friends and then you can easily speak to an
unknown audience.
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Practice speaking in front of mirror. Observe your body language till
you are confident and comfortable about your body language.
Practice voice modulation by varying your pitch of the voice, first
imagining that you are addressing a small crowd and then a big
crowd. Practice emotional modulation by making speeches of different
emotional topics.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
a) In a one to one communication, you can make a mistake and still get away
with it, because you can always correct yourself and more often than not
your listener will be a known person as well. On the other hand, when you
are addressing a large audience you can never afford to do even small
mistakes as there are hundreds of people keenly watching you. Even a small
mistake will be noticed, criticized and you will end up in an embarrassing
situation. Therefore it is necessary that you should be very well prepared for
public speaking.
b) How to be a powerful orator?
As discussed earlier be careful about the intent, the content and style.
Observe the excellent speakers but develop your own unique style.
Use your body language for greater impact. Personalize the audience with remarks like,
Dont you all agree to this?
Is it not there for all of us to see?
Given a chance, speak in different languages
Use voice and emotional modulation to leave audience asking for
more.
SOCIALIZING
a) Importance of socializing
# Can develop contacts, and careerwise it plays to be well connected.
# Can increase the knowledge, as we will be interacting with different
people.
# Learning about different culture, lifestyle, habits will help us to adapt to
different circumstances easily.
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b) How to be welcomed and appreciated in social circles
# Being a team player: we should go with the atmosphere of crowd rather
than being different.
# Listening more and speaking less: If not called upon to speak or asked
to give personal opinion, we should be an attentive and encouraging
listener rather than a speaker. If speaking is silver, listening is gold.
c) Be an asset not liability: Whenever we go to a party, we should always
carry some present to the hosts. And we should not be demanding in any
way.
d) Remember people by their names: As we start socializing, it is quite
obvious that we keep meeting same people at different places. People getoffended when we forget them. And asking them about their family will
certainly keep us in good esteem in their minds.
e) Whenever you are among a discussion, make sure you contribute
something concrete, but dont ever bluff or over brood.
2) SWOT ANALYSIS1) STRENGTH:
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STRENGTH;Internal strength is what we possess within us or what we are
made of. This consists of our education, intelligence, knowledge, will
power etc.
External strength is what we possess outside in the physical
world. This consists of our body language, the good will and the
various influences we have, the soft skills we have acquired etc.
2) HOW TO DEVELOP OUR STRENGTHS?
As each individual possesses different internal and external
strengths. It is very hard to generalize how to develop various strengths. But,we can discuss some easily recognizable strength.
a) Body language: Though we are born with a particular physique
and it is tough to change that, we can always change the way
we sit and stand, the way we walk and talk. By quantitative,
qualitative and conscious effort these things and this helps in
building our personality.
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b) Communication: There was a 13-yr. Old boy, who could not
open his mouth infront of his own schoolmates because of fear.
But with lot of determination, hard and smart work, he became
a world famous trainer in public speaking. His name is Dale
Carnegie.
3) HOW TO USE OUR VARIOUS STRENGTHS?
Each of us are blessed and born with different strengths and the
most important thing is to find where our strengths lie. Once we
find out our strength, we should go on developing the strength and
make best use of it. Sachin found his strength in cricket at the age
of 11 and he had not done anything other than playing cricket. Bill
Gates found out his business acumen at 12 when he rented his
basketball to his sister at 25 pence a day. Today he is more
famous for his strategies than for software development.
2) WEAKNESS
a) Types of weakness:
Natural weakness: Some of us are born with natural weakness.
E.g.: Short height, dumb & deaf, blindness etc.
Acquired weakness: We acquire some weaknesses over a period
of time.
E.g.: 1) Children are not scared to speak infront of anybody, but
start getting stage fear as they start growing up.
2) Children learn faster and better because of their enthusiasm
to learn. But over a period of time, they start developing prejudice
over some subjects, and before they realize, they start scoring poorly
in those subjects.
b) HOW TO GET RID OF VARIOUS WEAKNESS.
Natural weaknesses are very hard or nearly impossible to
overcome. But we can get rid of the acquired weaknesses with
quantitative and qualitative effort over a period of time.
E.g.: Communication: Many of us have acquired stage fear. By
practicing, one can get rid of stage fear and can be an excellentspeaker.
Memory: We can improve our memory by following
memory development techniques.
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c) HOW TO USE NATURAL WEAKNESS INTO OUR
ADVANTAGE.
Many a times, we can use our natural weakness into our
advantage.
E.g.: a) Short batsman in cricket.
b) The way Sylvester Stalloine used his twisted mouth
into his advantage.
C) Charlie Chaplin.
3) OPPORTUNITIES.
a) Internal and external Opportunities.
Internal and external opportunities keep varying from time to time,
place to place and person to person.
E.g.: Being a student, the internal opportunities are the knowledge, we
can gain in our college, whereas external opportunities are gainingknowledge through inter collegiate competitions, guest lecturing etc.
Being in a family, internal opportunity is what we learn within
our family, whereas external opportunity is what we learn by attending
a wedding, community meeting etc.
In a company, internal opportunity might give us a chance for
promotion, whereas external opportunity might offer a better job in an
another company.
b) Some types of Career Opportunities.
a) Geographical.
b) Timebound.
c) Industrywise.
C) How to use opportunities into our advantage.
1) Call centers
2) Microsofts marketing strategy for developing strategies.
d) How to create opportunities.
1) Creating new products like selling coconut water in containers.2) Creating new markets: F.m.c.g. companies releasing their
products in sachets to cater low level income people.
3) Taking initiatives and creating favorable atmosphere for
promotion in our company.
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4) THREATS.a) Internal and external threats.
Internal threats, more often than not, are psychological and
imaginative. They arise because of our own fears, doubts and
weaknesses like can I do it, can I speak infront of large audience,can I reach the target etc. Because internal threats are
psychological, they can be negotiated and negated.
External threats arise outside our control and therefore tough to
handle and cooperate. For e.g., at the time of promotion our
superior might prefer a relative to us, our company might loose
some major clients and company might lay off some people.
b) Corporate threats.
Even though, there are different threats like natural, social,
governmental threats, because we are concentrating on career, we
will discuss corporate threats.1) The company, one is working, might be facing either internal or
external threats. If union strikes, financial crisis etc form the
internal threats, loosing clients, tough competition, govt.s new
policies form the external threats.
2) We might be facing our own threats within the company. If the
personal problems affecting our work, not discharging our
duties form the internal threats, competition from colleagues,
personal preferences of our superior form external threats.
c) HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE THREATS.
Even though, all the threats can not be foreseen and guarded,
some threats can be predicted and preventive measures can be taken.
1) If the real estate industry is going down, we can be sure that
the prices of products like cement, paint, hardware etc start
falling.
2) If the company is on a computerization spree, we can be sure
that the computer illiterate employees will have a tough time
keeping their place in the company.
d) HOW TO NEGOTIATE AND NEGATE THREATS.
As we discussed earlier, most of the internal threats are
psychological and therefore, by consulting counselors or psychiatrists
we can come out of internal threats.
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1) If one is in cement industry and facing problems because of
slowdown in real estate, the solution is to search for the
markets, where the real estate is booming or atleast
stabilized.
2) If the company is getting computerized, the solution is to get
the necessary computer knowledge.
e) HOW TO USE FORESEEN THREATS INTO
ADVANTAGE.
a) Tendulkars famous outside the leg-stic guard against Shane
Warne.
b) Microsofts marketing strategy against Linux.
c) Pepsis famous nothing official about it campaign.
3) Importance of SWOT analysis in communication.
a) Speak more on your stronger areas and less on weaker
areas.
b) Start working quantitatively and qualitatively over your
weaker areas, so that over a period of time, your weaker
areas start downsliding.
c) Use all the public speaking opportunities as a brand image
development exercise of your communication skill.
d) There are on external threats in communication. To negate
the internal threats, find out the weaker areas and work on
them rigorously.
GOAL SETTING.
A) WHAT IS A GOAL?
Goal is a point or a place or a destination, we want to be
at a given point of time.
1) Goal should be specific- no doubts.
2) Goal should be realistic- it should be practical.
3) Goal should be reachable- it should be within a particular reach
4) Goal should be measurable- quantitatively or qualitatively.
5) Goal should be time bound- goal is when rather than how long.
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WHY DO WE NEED A GOAL Even for a small outing like going to a
movie or a weekend picnic, we always plan- which movie to go or
which picnic places to be visited. Only after we finalize this, we start
thinking about other factors like the mode of transport, the route, the
cost etc. In the same way, in the journey of our career, we should
always have a goal or different set of goals, we want to achieve at a
given point of time. As we do not sit in a bus without deciding where to
go, we should not start our career without deciding what and when to
achieve.
CAREER PLANNING.1.Difference between job and career
Job is more a temporary assignment and a stepping stone where
as career is the path through which we start realizing and reaching our
respective goals.
E.g.: Engineers working in call centers and BPOs
Weekend and summer jobs
2.How to choose a careera. Analyze ourselves through SWOT analysis
b. Observe and study the industry you want to get into
# How it is behaving for past 5 yr.
# Depending on this result how it might behave for the next 5 yr.
c. Career counseling.
3) Why should we develop our career options?
As the famous actor and director Raj Kapoor rightly remarked
moving forward in life and you are dead the day you stand still, saturated,
exhausted. One might wish to be a software engineer and might join acompany as software engineer. Then the next goal should be reassessed to be
either a team leader or the trainer. If one wishes to be a sales manager and
becomes a sales manager for a state, the next goal should be to become the
sales manager for a zone and then for the country.
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INTEGRATED PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT.1) Positive self-esteem and positive attitude.Self-esteem is what we think about ourselves and attitude is our
outlook towards life and more often than not, they influence each
other a lot. By reading, listening, and speaking good things and
through self-hypnosis orders, we can build positive self-esteem and
this in turn creates positive attitude. We always create vibrations and
the more positive vibrations we create, the more we can influence
people positively. The road to success starts and ends with people
and being self-confident and having positive attitude will certainly
influence people.2) Attire, body language and power of smiling.
Always remember the old saying first impression is the best
impression. Our dressing will certainly describe a lot about us. The attire
should always be occasion-specific and we should complement the
dressing with confident and positive body language. Even, the way we
walk, the way we stand and sit tells a lot about us. By regular practice, we
can develop a non-aggressive but positive and confident body language.
Everybody knows the importance and power of smiling. Smile costs
nothing but pays more. One warm and friendly smile gets more friendsthan 1000 words.
3) Be a team player.
Many people hate to follow, few people hate to be followed but no
one hates to be with each other. Always suggest and advice than ordering.
4) Encourage and appreciate.
Words of encouragement and sincere appreciation yield more
productivity than pushing, ordering and condemning.
MEMORY DEVELOPMENT.1) Story development.
2) Picturization and visualization.
3) Co related words.
CONCENTRATION DEVELOPMENT.1) Meditation.
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2) Breathing.