P2 Principles of effective communication

Principles of effective communication

In this blog I will be talking about the principles of effective of communication is more than just telling someone something, it includes the communication and information, sometimes when people communicate they use that hands to re[resent things, or they use pictures, symbols or facial expressions. you can use some of these communication skills when doing a presentation.

Speaking to audiences

• speaking to audiences of people that you don't now is important because when you are speaking to your friends because you know that they wont mock you if you messed up, it makes you feel comfortable, but when you do a presentation to an audience that you don't know then you try to over think things and that where mistakes are made, so getting used to it so I good factor to have.
• when you are doing a presentation you need to make sure that you are not fiddling with items I.E pens, fingers, pencils, because it make it look that you are nervous and doesn't look very professional, so when you are doing your presentation make sure that you are doing what makes you feel comfortable with your hands, I.E using your hands to talk, make sure you don't have your hands folded because it comes across as aggressive.
• when doing your presentation make sure that you are speaking slowly and clearly so everyone can hear you and understand you because if you are speaking really fast and mumbling people will miss what you are saying and that could have been the part of your presentation that got your point across. if you speak clearly then people will know that you are confident and not nervous because your not rushing your presentation.
• when doing your presentation make sure that you make eye contact will the audience because that shows that you are acknowledging there presence and it makes you look more professional because you are trying to get your point across clearly, where as if you were staring at the floor then people wouldn't understand you. 

Cultural differences

• when doing a presentation you will experience cultural differences, so when you go into the room for the presentation you might have to shake someone's hand, or bow to someone, and you need to make sure you know this because if you walked into a room and didn't speak to the audience or greet them,. then they might take that as an insult and not listen to you presentation because you haven't given them the respect that they deserve.
• when you are doing your performance you need to make sure you know who you are speaking to because if you were speaking to a games company y then you would use difference terminology to make your self look professional and to make it look like you know what you were talking about, but then if you went to a school to talk to some children about fixing a computer then you would need to make sure that you don't use much terminology because they wont understand you.

Communicate in writing

• when you have finished a piece of work then you should always proof read it because there will me some mistakes somewhere and if you didn't acknowledge them then you would look silly talking about something making loads of mistakes, for example if you were sending an email to someone about some new software that you have wrote and there would loads of mistakes in the email they wouldn't understand the email because it wouldn't make sense.
• when you are communicating with someone you need to make sure that your spelling is perfect, because if you were to write a letter to them and there were loads of mistakes in the letter then they wouldn't take the letter seriously, also if you were sending an email to your boss about something very important you there were loads of mistakes then they would think that you were wasting there time.