With this chapter, we start our discussion on specific strategies by which you can improve your motivation skills and get your team to perform to their best level.
One of the most important things you would need to motivate people is precise communication. Whether you are trying to motivate your friend or your corporate business team, they would like to know what the objectives are and what they would need to do in order to achieve them. They would like to know what is expected of them. This is a very important aspect of the entire motivation game. It is only when people know what the exact objectives are, can they accomplish their task to their best.
Here we shall see the importance of communication as a motivating factor, and we shall see what you can do in order to improve upon it so that it makes a bigger impact on the person or group you are trying to motivate.
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Precise Communication
All in unison would agree that effective and proper communication is the key to success. Effectual communication is an indispensable part of one’s lives, including both professional as well as personal life. As far as professional communication is concerned, superior communication skills are necessary in today’s world, without which it is difficult to survive at work. One is expected, or instead required to get hold of more than a few basic skills, in order to develop good communication skills, with one of these skills definitely being the skill of communicating with precision.
It is very vital to understand that precision or accuracy is a very essential ingredient of good communication skills. Therefore, one should not undermine the importance of precise communication.
Precise communication is the key to avoid even the minutest of misunderstandings. Clear expressions, a good body language and an appropriate tone, are among the major elements of precise communication. Apart from these, the eye contact with the person or people being spoken to and grasping the attention of the listeners is also of prime importance.
With the advancement of technology, personal communication, particularly face-to-face communication is taking a back seat. For instance, two people in the same office prefer talking over an email or over the phone, in spite of having the option to communicate face to face, in person. The point here is that when communicating in person, one’s thoughts can be communicated across more precisely than through an email or over the phone.
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The significance of successful and precise communication is indisputable. It is also extremely essential for companies to communicate precisely with their clients, in order to project a good image. Communicating imprecisely is a ground for loss of image.
Speaking professionally, precise communication can be a great motivator for people. One of the reasons for this is because they are more accurately aware of what is expected from them and thus work accordingly.
Communicating precisely is also a very evident sign of one’s state of mind. If people are unable to communicate in clear terms about what is on their minds, it is in most cases, an indication of their perplexed state of mind. On the contrary, people who are able to clearly express themselves are the ones who have mastered the skill of precise communication. Precise communication is also very helpful in reducing queries in the listener’s mind. That is to say, the more exactly or precisely one communicates, the easier it is for the listeners to understand. Information or data given out in precise terms, more often than not, proves to be much more useful.
Thus, it is easier to work with people who communicate precisely, as things are clear and easy to understand and such clear communication additionally motivates people to work. Those with a perplexed state of mind, usually leave others puzzled too.
Therefore, it can be rightly stated that communication, in general and precise communication, in specific can surely help people be professionally successful.
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Motivation Secret 2—
Unhindered Opportunities