Inter personal skills

INTER PERSONAL SKILLS

• Interpersonal skills are the life skills we use everyday to communicate and interact with other people, individually and in group.

• This not only include how we communicate, but also our confidence, our ability to listen and understand, problem solving capacity, decision making and personal stress management.

• Interpersonal skills are a key component of every job

• Required for Inter official relations

• Key to success to any position

• Good Inter-personal skills make the difference minimum 8hrs a day, 40hrs a week, 160hrs a month and 2000hrs a year.

Listening Skills

Communication Skills

Stress Management

Verbal Communication

Assertiveness

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Non-Verbal communication

• It means communicating with words, written or spoken.

• Verbal communication consists of speaking, listening, writing and reading.

• It serves as a vehicle for expressing desires, ideas and concepts and is vital to the processes of learning and teaching.

VERBAL COMMUNICATION

• Consider the objective

• Be sincere

• Use simple language, familiar words

• Be brief and precise

• Use polite words and tone

• Say something interesting and pleasant

CHARACTERISTICS

Barriers

• Status- Formal and Informal status levels affects, effectiveness of face to face communication

• Complexes- Lack of confidence or sense of superiority

• Abstracting- It is partial and selective listening, which leads to loss of information

• Language Barrier- listener should be familiar with the language used by the speaker

NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION

• Non-verbal communication includes all unwritten and unspoken messages, both intentional and unintentional

• It is a process of communicating through sending and receiving wordless cues between people

• The process of non-verbal communication includes encoding and decoding

Facial Expression Body Movement Gestures Eye Contact Voice Touch

Forms of Non verbal Communication

• Greeting with Namaste- placing both the hands together with a bow is a very common nonverbal communication in India, which shows respect.

Example of Non-verbal Communication

Improving Nonverbal Communication

• When sending messages

• Be conscious of non-verbal behavior• Be purposeful• Match verbal and nonverbal communication• Adapt to the situation• Don’t automatically assume• Consider gender, cultural and individual

differences• Pay attention to all aspects• Use perception checking

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