How Do Communication Skills Help You? * Interact with your team * Exchange ideas as a team member * Make solid decisions * Solve problems * Streamline workflow

1. 7 Ways to Improve your
Communication Skills

2. How Do
Communication
Skills
Help You?
• Interact with your team
• Exchange ideas as a team member
• Make solid decisions
• Solve problems
• Streamline workflow.

3. Ways to Improve
Communication
Skills
• Understand the Audience
• Maintain eye contact
• Enhance listening skills
• Be assertive
• Improve body language
• Keep it concise
• Use the right words

4. Understand the
Audience
• Categorise your audience
• Gather information about your audience
• Identify their interests
• Focus on what unites everyone
• Tailor the message based on the audience

5. Make Eye
Contact
• Look into the eyes of the listener
• Eye contact conveys your interest in the listener
• It builds credibility
• It shows the confidence and authority

6. Enhance
Listening Skills
• Face the speaker
• Keep an open mind
• Listen to the words of the speaker
• Try to understand what the other person wants
to convey
• Ask questions only to ensure understanding

7. Be Assertive
• Practise patience
• Agree to disagree
• Take a problem-solving approach
• Stay calm and speak in a normal voice
• Understand and accept differences

8. Improve Body
Language
• Be aware of the surroundings
• Go for a firm handshake
• Lean towards the other person
• Maintain a relaxed body posture

9. Keep It Concise
• Think before you speak
• Convey the main idea first
• Never provide irrelevant or tangential information
• Use meaningful and descriptive words

10. Use the Right
Words
• Focus on the tone of your diction
• Improve your vocabulary
• Be careful with connotations
• Create positive energy in the team

11. Join REVA
University
Join hands with REVA University to improve your
communication skills along with practical and
theoretical skills in your programme.

12. REVA University,
Rukmini Knowledge Park,
Kattigenahalli, Yelahanka,
Bangalore – 560064.
Tel: +91-80-66226622
Mob: 95388 74444
Email: info@reva.edu.in
www.reva.edu.in