The Art of Communicating

PROBLEM: If you don't present yourself with believability, you cannot achieve interpersonal success. It is an essential element of any presentation.
SOLUTION: Learn the nine major behavioral skills:
-eye communication
-posture, and movement
- gesture, facial expression
-dress, appearance
-8 ways to transmit your voice
- language, non-words
-listener involvement
-humor
-learn to use your natural charisma

Learn about Abraham Haslow's Four Stages of Learning:
-1. Unconscious Incompetence-we are not aware of our interpersonal communciation habits.
-2. Conscious Incompetence-we learn that we are not competent at something.
-3. Conscious Competence-we consciously make an effort to learn a new skill.
-4 Unconscious Competence-the skill set happens automatically at an unconscious level.

The Four Stages of Speaking:
-1. The non-speaker people at this level avoid "public" speaking at all costs.
-2. The occasional speaker people at this level reluctantly accept speaking assignments.
-3. The willing speaker-fear is not a drawback at this level.
-4. The leader-at this level people are driven to present themselves and their ideas.