Communication guide

Adam Bahrire

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Communication guide

HOW TO SPEAK: (The four P's)

38% OF COMMUNICATION is HOW YOU SAY STUFF.

PASSION: 👌

Animation: Make it known that whatever you're talking about you're exited about, even if you're not.

Energy: Be energetic! It's so CONTAGIOUS and spreads from person to person.

Emotion: Why does the person with the sob story always win? They bring emotion into the mix. If you speak about something with anger, like how the education system is messed up you'll get people interested.

PACE: 🏃

Speed: Slow down for suspense and be weary of your speed and try to speak at a natural pace.

If your words aren't coming to you, slow down.

POWER: 💪

Volume: Being quiet makes you WEAK when talking to people and being too loud makes you cocky. Try and hit that sweet spot where you're confident with your voice but not too billowy or overpowering.

Posture: Make yourself TALL and keep your head up, it makes you speak with AUTHORITY. This also helps miles with your psychology and makes you feel more CONFIDENT internally.

PAUSE: ⏸️

Organise: Pauses give you time to organise your mind, calm your panic and slow down your pace.

Attention: Pausing is great at grabbing people's attention and highlighting an important point in your speech.

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BODY LANGUAGE: (F.A.M.E)

FACE: 😃

Smile: Remember to smile, it brings joy and removes negativity from your speech. Smiling is also contagious and can bring joy into everyone's lives: think about the last time someone smiled at you while walking past, you probably did something nice that day, right?

Tilt: Keep your head up and never look at the floor. It radiates confidence and makes you hold yourself to a higher standard, something that everyone can admire.

ARMS: 💪

Palms up: This little psychology trick conveys vulnerability and makes people more warm towards you and you become a lot more welcoming and friendly.

Palms down: Also to do with psychology, this adds GRAVITY and POWER to your words. When you do this, your words will impact and essentially captivate people.

Action: Act out your words with your hands to nearly 10X their impact on your audience. Instead of just utilising that 7% you could utilise 63% to communicate by acting your words out with your hands. This will also make what you are saying a whole lot more memorable.

MOVEMENT: 🦵

Posture: Radiate confidence through your body, never slouch and keep your self upright. Hold your shoulders back and push your chest out. Feel strong, feel confident and don't be a pushover.

Purpose: Move with purpose. Take each step deliberately and confidently.

Copy: This is our third little psychology hack: If you're speaking one on one, replicate the other person's body language. This immediately makes your more likable and familiar to them, making them more comfortable around you and warmer to you.

EYES: 👀

Connect: Our final psychology hack: By looking into someone's left eye, we trigger a natural bonding response in our brains, which can be used to build connection between you and the person you're speaking too.

Confidence: Eye contact is a symbol for power, and can make you seem more confident. Think of the little shy kids, they never held eye contact nor did they want to be seen. Do the opposite: put yourself out there and don't be afraid to look into someone's eyes.

Engaging: When you are listening, eye contact can be used to show interest and engagement. It is disrespectful not to hold eye contact with someone when they are speaking as it shows disinterest and boredom in the person. If you can be interested, they wont want to stop talking.

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