Enhancing Speaking and Listening Skills in the Students

Experts say that feeling nervous before giving a speech or performing an act or any presentation in front of a mob is very common. Sometimes this stress makes the students extra attentive towards the performance and it is good too but don’t let this stress go beyond the limits. To handle this situation, the school management system of the educational institutions hire education counselors. Students must think before the performance that people sitting there in a mob are also like me so why to fear from them. School management system also makes sure that students must get proper training for public speaking. First of all, a student must collect some information about his/her audience so that, having proper knowledge about the audience, the student can include such words and statements in his speech or performance which can motivate the mob. Students should organize the things before the performance just as he or she organizes his study table before starting doing homework. Students must have relevant data regarding his/her speech while speaking in front of a mob in order to prove the credibility of statements spoken. While speaking, even if the student is nervous, don’t show it to the audience and just be yourself and use your personality to shine there on the podium, don’t overreact there and try to become someone else because the audience likes reality. Accept the feedback the audience is giving through their facial expressions. 

No one likes a speaker like a tape recorder so change the tone, pitch and manner to speak from time to time and bring some humour while speaking because people like a speaker with humour. Try to include some real-life stories of your life which can grab the attention of people because people like real life examples a lot regarding the topic. Never remove your eye contact from the mob and start reading any script because this represents that you have prepared nothing and are still reading the script to perform. While speaking, students should use his full body to make impressive gestures especially with hands, head, face and eyes in order to make their audience concentrate on you completely. Make such a dashing performance initially that the whole audience should sit in their seats being glued and finish your presentation in a way which becomes unforgettable for the mob. 

Good listening skill has its effect on the personal lives of the people also. People who listen carefully they learn with patience and this only way of behaving with people makes people very liked and very demanded among the society and among peer groups. Students need to understand that they should not be confused between hearing and listening because both are different. Hearing is a process where sound falls into your ear. It happens with ease. Whereas listening is a process which is done by intention where one uses concentration and focus mentally and physically also if needed in order to hear what one wants to say to him/her. This difference can be compared to admission  entry as the manual admission process is slower and work performed by fees management software is awesome as admission management software works faster and more accurately. Listening does not mean to listen to someone only but to focus also on how he or she is telling, his or her language, body language and gravity of his or her statements means a lot in listening. In fact, in an effective listening process the listener should be very attentive towards the verbal and non-verbal content of the communication of another person. In an effective listening process, the listener should be responsive also towards the speaker so that he or she may have satisfaction of being listened to properly. Today people are sad, students are annoyed, employees are frustrated, women are hurt and this all happens when no one listens to them. 80% of grief which exists in this world is due to knowing one listens to anyone.

There is no doubt that listening is the most important part of communication. But do people really know the real purpose of listening? or why is listening carefully to others so important? It is important to listen to the other person carefully so that the listener can focus on the message being conveyed without being affected by distractions and confusions. One needs to listen to another person’s communication effectively so that he can understand the point of view of the speaker so as to get an idea of his emotions in that statement. By listening carefully to the speaker, the listener can evaluate his or her message properly to grab the real meaning and reason of his or her statement. By effective listening, the listener also pinpoints the non-verbal signs in the message of the speaker to make more effective understanding so that he or she can focus, concentrate and represent interest in his speaking or oration. Listening completely and effectively with full concentration also makes the speaker feel good and encourages him or her to give his/her 100% while speaking. People can notice speakers asking the mob to clap or applause so that their morale can be boosted up to speak. Such applause from the public makes the speaker happy which makes him convey his or her message in a more effective way.

A concentrated listening makes the speaker feel that he or she is being kept at priority and is being given proper respect which he/she deserves, this selfless approach makes a very beautiful bonding between speaker and listener and speaker gets full of gratitude to his or her listeners.