In our previous blog we had seen how good Listening skills can help in developing good speaking skills. In this blog, I would like to share some thoughts about how listening can help build relationships. When I listen and respond to another person in a manner that develops mutual understanding and trust, I can be called an empathetic listener.
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Tags: Communication Skills, empathetic listener, empathetic listening skills, listening skills, speaking skills
Not many realize that listening is as important as speaking. A baby spends its initial months listening. Listening skills help the baby assimilate what is being talked around her and lays the foundation to build her speaking skills. Similarly in a corporate environment, it is important for managers to develop good listening skills as it helps them to build rapport with their peers and team members. It also helps them to understand their assignments and achieve better results. In short, it lays the foundation to be a better team player. How can anyone develop their listening skills?
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Tags: listening skills
Blogs have become a popular medium for individuals to express their thoughts or opinions in the form of a post. They can contain text, images and links to other websites. With Eblogger and WordPress, starting a blog has become fairly easy as you don’t need any programming knowledge. However there are some basic rules that you need to follow if you want your blog to be read by more people. Let’s look at some of them.
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Tags: blog writing, how to write blogs, writing effective blogs
What are the pre-requisites of writing? Where shall one make a beginning? Whether you are writing an essay, report, letter or even a blog you need to start with planning. You need to first organize your thoughts and have clarity about what you wish to write. You need to be clear about your target audience, the message you wish to convey and your ultimate objective. Apart from these you also need to keep in mind the following:
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Tags: essentials of writing, what to avoid while writing, Writing skills
One of Seneca’s quotes states that “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable”. Goals set a benchmark for anyone to measure their progress. It acts as a threshold to reach the final destination. Therefore, setting a goal always helps to measure achievements and evaluate self efficacy. But first, one needs to know how to set goals. Where does one start? Here are a few tips.
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Tags: achievable goals, attainable goals, setting up goals
In the brainstorming session or the pre-writing stage of writing process, the writer decides the topic and the ideas that lay the foundation to the subject matter. These ideas are then put into a written format to create a draft. A rough draft captures the ideas along with the supporting details. The paragraph may not be perfect and may include lot of mistakes in terms of grammar, and repetition of same ideas may occur. This is normal and essential in the drafting stage of the writing process. A draft is simply a work in progress. During the writing process, it undergoes several revisions with the ideas and content being organized and reorganized to give is some form of structure. You might in the process formulate a working introduction of the whole article. A first draft is often referred to as the skeleton having the overall structure or the concept but lacking the logical sequence.
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Tags: drafting, Writing process
Writing is a time consuming activity where the writer has to think before and after writing. The entire process from the time the writer jots down his initial ideas to the point when his work is published it is known as the writing process. Here, I am going to explain in brief what each step of the writing process involves as this will help you to understand its importance.
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Tags: drafting, pre-writing, proofreading, publishing, revising, steps in the writing process, Writing process
Personal competency can be defined as your ability to make sense of your uniqueness. Each individual in this planet is unique in skill, talent and competency. Thus to make something different in your life, it is better to cultivate this uniqueness. Once you realize your core competencies, it becomes easier for you to nurture this hidden talent. Developing personal competency also includes the commitment to accept change.
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Tags: innovation and creative training, Personal competencies
PowerPoint presentations have become an integral part of any business meeting or conference. It has become a necessary tool for information sharing. However, most often executives are not aware of correct method of using the PowerPoint presentation. There are certain things that really mar an otherwise good presentation. In this blog we will learn about what one should avoid when presenting using PowerPoint slides.
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Tags: Effective Presentations, PowerPoint Presentations
All writings, be it a blog or a poem, begins with an idea. Therefore, as a writer, it becomes important for him/ her to figure out what he/ she wants to do with the idea and to where he/ she wants to take it. Pre-writing is a process where the writer starts writing ideas roughly before actually starting the work of writing. It also enables the writer to get over the writer’s block and go on writing as much as possible on a particular topic.
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Tags: pre-writing activity, Pre-writing process, pre-writing strategy, Writing process
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