Page 50 - Effective communication Skills by Dale King

Listen to What You Say

Just like you review what you have written to sharpen your writing, you can
do the same thing with your speeches. If you can watch some video clips of
yourself speaking, it is a great way to “see” how you talk. You can use it to
help you rehearse for an important presentation.

Rudyard Kipling once wrote: “Words are the most powerful drug used by
mankind.” Words can intoxicate, inspire, and paint amazing images.
Constantly work on developing the range of your skills and words. When you

use words, you will reap amazing rewards.

Keep Emotions Under Control

If you can remember the last time you were insulted verbally, you were
probably very upset and you couldn’t think of a decent comeback. This was
because your emotions too over and your verbal dexterity hit zero.

Once you calmed down, but long after the person who insulted was gone, you

came up with many great comebacks.

Sounds familiar, right? This happens because our emotions can cause an
increase to our cognitive load and it doesn’t have as much horsepower that is
available for verbal tasks.

High-stress levels could impact word retrieval negatively and this can cause
our speech to be less fluent. Communication anxiety can also have an adverse
impact on your verbal dexterity.

Whatever you could do to help keep yourself detached and calm like heart
rate variability training or meditation. These methods are long term plans to
help your verbal dexterity.

When you are in short term situation, whatever you could do to remain calm
and lessen negative emotions will help you with your verbal dexterity in a
stressful situation. Managing, reducing, eliminating, or removing stressors in
certain situations can help in these moments.

Stop Multi-tasking

Many people love multi-tasking. Researchers have realized that multitasking
can increase cognitive load and will affect verbal dexterity. This makes sense