At the grocery store, greet the cashier before they greet you. It’s incredible how you can connect with someone when you don’t mind taking the initiative. When you speak up first, you will form an instant connection because you make the other person feel valued. When it comes to making a connection and building influence, be the first person to reach out. If we are disconnected, it doesn’t matter what we are communicating because the message isn’t getting through.Ĭonnection Leverages Influence Connecting is about the other person and it leverages the influence you have with that person.
If we are connected, communication will be much easier and more effective. This means that if we want to communicate with others, we must be sure we are connecting with others. However, a huge challenge is to communicate in such a way that your message doesn’t become just another piece of the clutter. We want someone to hear and acknowledge our communications, because they are important to us. That works very well until we realize that sometimes we are part of the “noise” other people are tuning out. Your brain works much like the spam filter on your email-by automatically sliding some messages to the side in order to deal with the ones that don’t appear to be junk. That’s an incredible amount of communication, so it’s little wonder our brain tries to filter out the “noise” in an effort to focus on what’s really important. I read that on average, we are exposed to 35,000 messages of some type each day.
Billboards, radio ads, Facebook News Feed, people talking, co-workers complaining, children fussing, phones ringing, TVs blaring, and on and on. On the personal side, communication with your spouse, children, parents, and friends will determine your satisfaction in life (at least some of it) and define your relationships.Ĭonnection Comes FirstCommunications of every kind bombard us.
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On the professional side, the ability to communicate and relate to customers, co-workers, employees, or a boss can determine your career potential and define your success. Almost any situation you can think of requires you to come in contact and interact with others. Regardless of your preferred personality style-or whether you consider yourself an introvert or extrovert-dealing with other people is a fact of life. It took several years, but I did improve my communication skills-and my ability to connect with other people. I quickly learned the hard way that the ability to connect with other people and communicate effectively was a critical success skill in life. It’s not that I didn’t want to talk or communicate with people, I simply didn’t know how.Įnter my first job waiting tables. Ask me a question, and you would get a monosyllabic response that discouraged any further dialogue. I never considered myself to be an introvert, although most people would have. What I didn’t have was the critical ability to connect with other people and communicate effectively. I had a great education, ability to think critically, reasoning skills, proactive attitude, and willingness to work hard.
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