The document provides tips for becoming a good communicator. It discusses communication skills, goals, and what makes a good communicator, including clarity, adequacy, integrity and timing. Tips are given for effective communication skills such as maintaining eye contact, body awareness, and conveying thoughts clearly. Barriers to effective communication are also outlined, and the "7 C's of effective communication" are defined as completeness, conciseness, consideration, clarity, concreteness, courtesy and correctness. Strategies are suggested for applying the 7 C's such as managing emotions in conversations.

1. How to become a good
Communicator?
Presented to: Ma’am Maria Khalid
Presented by: M.Mohsin
M.Aneeq Javed
Ghulam Hussain
M.Tayyab

2. Communication Skills
• Communication skills is the ability to use language (receptive) and
express (expressive) information.
• Effective communication skills are a critical element in your career
and personal lives.

3. Communication Goals
T o get and give
information
T o persuade
To ens u re understanding
To get action
To change behavior

4. What makes a good communicator?
Clarity Adequacy
Integrity Timing

5. Tips to be a good communication skills
 Maintain eye contact with the audience
 Body awareness
 Gestures and expressions
 Convey one's thoughts
 Practice effective communication skills

6.  Be fully present. ...
 Talk with people, not at people. ...
 Be consistent, but don't repeat yourself too
much. ...
 Use your voice wisely. ...
 Make it about them. ...
 Be transparent. ...
 Ask open-ended questions. ...
 Let it go.

7. Effective Communication. . .
It is two way.
It involves active listening.
It reflects the accountability of speaker and listener.
It utilizes feedback.
It is free of stress.
It is clear.
.

8. Importance of effective communication
 Effective communication helps to understand a person or situation in a better
way.
 It enables us to solve the differences, build trust and respect in the organization.
 Sometimes our message is misunderstood or we misunderstand the received
message. Effective communication helps us to resolve problems from both
points of view.
 Effective communication helps us to connect well with colleagues, teachers,
parents, etc.
 It helps us in decision making.

9. What makes communication ineffective ?

10.  Before learning to communicate effectively, we should learn which are the
barriers of communication that make communication ineffective:
Common barriers to effective communication
 Emotional barriers and taboos.
 Lack of attention, interest, distractions, or
irrelevance to the receiver.
 Physical disabilities such as hearing problems or
speech difficulties.
 Physical barriers to non-verbal communication.
 Language differences and the difficulty in
understanding unfamiliar accents, use of jargon.
 Expectations and prejudices which may lead to

11. false assumptions or stereotyping.
 Differences in perception and viewpoint, cultural differences.
The 7c’s of effective communication
 Completeness
 Conciseness
 Consideration
Clarity
 Concreteness
 Courtesy
 Correctness

12. 1.COMPLETENESS
• ·Message is complete when it contains all facts the reader or listener
needs for the reaction you desire.
• ·Communication senders need to assess their message through the
eyes of the receivers to be sure they have included all relevant
information.
• ·Provide all necessary information

13. 2.CONCISENESS
• Eliminate wordy expressions. ·Include only relevant statements ·Be
focused.
• ·Shorten & avoid long explanations.
• ·Avoid gushing politeness.
• ·Avoid unnecessary repetitions:
• -Use short forms for the second time.
• -Use pronouns.

14. 3.CONSIDERATION
• Consideration implies “stepping into the shoes of others”: know the
audience’s view points, background, mind-set, education level, etc.
• Make an attempt to envisage your audience, their requirements,
emotions as well as problems.
• Ensure that the self-respect of the audience is maintained and their
emotions are not at harm.

15. 4.CLARITY
• Emphasize one specific message, goal or idea at a
time.
• ·Avoid vagueness.
• ·Avoid technical terms which may be hard to
understand.
• ·Avoid the possibility of misinterpretation. As much as
possible, your audience shouldn’t have to “read
between the lines”.

16. 5.CONCRETENESS
 Be precise in presenting
facts and figures.
 Use active voice more than the passive.
 Use action verbs to make idea clear.
 Use of image building words where
necessary

17. 6.COURTESY
• Courtesy in a message implies that the message should show the
sender’s expression as well as respect the receiver.
• · The sender's message should be sincerely polite, judicious, reflective
and enthusiastic.

18. 7.CORRECTNESS
At the core of correctness is proper grammar, punctuation and spelling.
The term correctness, as applied to effective communications also mean
three characteristics:
 Use the right level of language.
Check the accuracy of figures, facts and words.
Maintain acceptable writing mechanics

19. Strategies to apply seven C’s of communication
• Emotions should be managed in a conversation. If you are getting
angry, you have to calm yourself by:
• Speaking to the other person as if you were not angry.
• Avoid the use of the word “you” - this avoids blaming.
• Nod your head to assure the other person that you heard him.
• Maintain eye contact with him.

20. Thanks