Communicate With Confidence

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Communicate with Confidence WHAT DO YOU WANT IN LIFE? Happiness and romance, business success, a stable family life, academic recognition, possession of new skills, financial security? Whatever your most cherished goals, communicating effectively with the people around you is vital to achieving them. Happiness is elusive if you cannot share your feelings with others; much business success hinges on your ability to sway people to your way of thinking; and how much you learn depends on how well you listen and interact with those who teach you. Communication is not a static event like, say, duplicating a report on a copying machine. It is a process that changes you while it happens. As you talk to people, your perception of them and of yourself alters, however subtly. Communication changes your feelings and attitudes, perhaps even your beliefs and values. When it works well, it makes you feel good about yourself, but if it fails it can undermine your self-esteem. That is why skilled, confident communication is so important.

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It’s commonly understood that only 7 to 11 percent of your communication is actually delivered by the words you choose to say. The Confident book looks at what you say (the text), which is clearly vital for communication to happen, but also the remaining 90 percent of communication that includes, the atmosphere (context), what you do whilst you are saying it (motion & body language) and your presence (confidence or personal persona), which all have a really dramatic effect on the message that the other person receives. The method of delivery employs an exclusively simple to learn and practical communication tool called ‘The Communication Quadrant’. The quadrant includes 4 main elements: Language, Atmosphere, Motion and Presence, which is a holistic approach to bridge the difference between content and context. Words and sentence construction is ideally known as content, while how you say them, what goes on around when you say them and what you do while you say them is context.