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Connecting Goes Beyond Words
If you want to be successful in connecting with people, you need to make sure your communication goes beyond words, by connecting on four levels.
- Visually: You have seven seconds to make the right first impression.
- Intellectually: To connect with people intellectually you must know two things: your subject and yourself.
- Emotionally: People may hear your words but they feel your attitude.
- Verbally: Words are the currency of ideas and have the power to change the world.
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“If you want to get your message across, you have to learn how to communicate in someone else’s world.”
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Key Principles To Develop The Crucial Skill Of Connecting
Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence on them.
The principles to develop this skill include:
- Find common ground
- Keep your communication simple
- Create ...
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Humor, Heart, Hope, Help
- Humor is something that will make the audience laugh and put them in a receptive mood.
- Heart will captivate people’s emotions and get them engaged with your message.
- Hope will inspire the audience and move them toward an ob...
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When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.
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Top Four Barriers to Finding Common Ground
- Assumption. "I already know what others know, feel and want."
- Arrogance. "I don’t need to know what others know, feel or want."
- Indifference. "I don’t care to know what others know, feel or want."
- Control
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Keeping Your Communication Simple
Constantly strive to simplify the complicated concepts and processes so you can make them accessible for the audience.
Don't try to impress the people in the room but to transfer information and to help make things understandable.
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Leave a Strong First Impression
Most people decide whether or not they like you within the first seven seconds of meeting you.
Strong posture, a firm handshake, smiling, and opening your shoulders to the person you are talking to will help ensure that you make a good first impression.
Linguistic mirroring: The secret to connecting with someone
The secret to connecting with someone is to simply copy their body language. Linguistic mirroring, where you mimic someone's communication style, can also make you more persuasive.
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