3 golden rules for effective communication

Have you been wondering how to put together an impressively-phrased Powerpoint presentation? Have you been wondering how to compose an e-mail that captures your strategies and goals effectively? It is time you did something about it. As a young professional in today's global business world, it is imperative that you are competent in both oral as well as written communication. Important forms of oral communication at the wor place include! "uilding interpersonal relationships. #iving presentations and debating viewpoints effectively.

$ou need to master oral s ills for both in-person and over-the-phone interactions. %imilarly, important written communication includes! &riting professional e-mails 'sans %(% slang). Putting together concise reports. *reating visually powerful Powerpoint presentations.

And the ey to acing oral and written communication is to spruce up your communication s ills. And it is a lot easier than you thin . Here are some easy tips to do it on your own! 1. Improve pronunciation and diction +here are a few tric s to ma ing a vernacular accent more globally understandable. , +ry ma ing sure that 'air' comes out of your mouth when saying the letters, '+, P, -' and the sound '*h'. , .ocus on elongating your vowel sounds. +his will also automatically slow down your rate of speech. , %ing /nglish songs out loud0 , &atch news shows on channels li e *11 and ""*. , +he web site www.m-w.com is great for pronunciation help. , I would also suggest buying boo s on pronunciation and language that come with audio cassettes. A good boo that I found really useful was Better English Pronunciation by 2 3 4'*onnor. It is part of the *ambridge series, and some of those boo s come with cassettes. 2. Spruce up your writing skills

, "elieve it or not, you have to Read More0 , &ell-written maga5ines, li e The Economist and India Today, are great to read not only to improve language s ills but also to learn more about the world. , In terms of boo s, read what interests you. +he basic goal is to read as much as you can. +here are a plethora of good authors who are popular today. %ome good writers whose language is easy to follow include 6i ram %eth, 2humpa 7ahiri, Paulo *oelho, 2 3 %alinger, Albert *amus and 8oald 3ahl. , People tend to forget basic grammar when writing e-mails. An e-mail is nothing more than a letter which is sent electronically. (a e sure salutations and content are professional. 9se special phrases when attaching documents. .or e:ample, ;Please find attached with this e-mail a report on...; +his helps you sound professional. 3. Five exercises to practise every day! i. Pretend you are a newscaster and read out the newspaper to your mirror. ii. 3o not read local newspapers. .ocus on national newspapers. iii. &hile reading a boo , underline all the words you do not now. 7oo them up in the dictionary. iv. (a e a list of these words, and ma e sure you use at least five of them in a conversation during the day. v. (ost important, ma e an effort to spea in /nglish to your friends and family.