Friday Four: Four Tips to Help You Communicate Your Vision

Friday, April 11, 2008

Building your career can be made significantly easier when you make a greater, more concerted effort to communicate better. Your vision in life deserves that kind of attention and dedication to detail, and when you are able to express yourself in a clear and confident manner, your career building goals are closer to getting achieved easier and better than you ever thought possible.

Here are four tips to help you communicate your vision in life clearer and more concisely than ever before:

1. Think about what you would like to say. Career building mistakes are often made when a person says something he didn't run through his head before it exited his mouth. Bring your vision to life by planning ahead and remembering the bottom line of your vision before you attempt to communicate it to someone else.

2. Stop talking... every so often. Building your career becomes smoother when you remember that people's attention spans only run so long. If you want to communicate better, pause every so often to give the other person a chance to say something. It's the polite thing to do, and every Christian personal vision plan allows for another person to say his or her piece on your vision in life.

3. Stay focused on one major point. If you start talking about your career building goals and vision in life right away, state your main point from the get-go. Doing this actually gives you a clearer direction for your conversation, and allows you the chance to explain your thoughts and point of view. At the end of your conversation, you can return to that point, or summarize any thoughts and decisions that may hae been made along the way.

4. Watch what you're saying but not saying. Many visionaries have had career building disasters with what comes out of their mouths, but you also have to be careful with what you're not saying with your body. Body language is a very important thing to control; you can come across hostile or aggressive with your gestures and facial expressions.

Any career building decision can be made better with communication skills, many of which are discussed in my book, Bringing Your Vision to Life. Give yourself the opportunity to bring your own vision to life with more information here. | 0 comments

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