How to improve your people skills

To improve your people skills you need to use active listening, display empathy, and use clear communication. Here are some details on tips that can help you to improve your people skills:

• Active listening

  Active listening is crucial to professional and personal communication, and really all communication in general. Active listening requires you not only to hear what someone is saying to you but also to comprehend and appropriately process their message. Ways to improve your active listening skills include:

• Asking relevant questions
• Paraphrasing what is being said to you
• Giving the person you are communicating with feedback

  Active listening is absolutely paramount to improving your overall conversation abilities and skills.

• Provide your full attention

  When someone is communicating with you, it is very important to give that person, and what they are saying, your full attention. Try not to multitask or engage in any other activities that might be distracting during a conversation.

• Use eye contact

  One of the tenets of strong people skills is eye contact. When you maintain eye contact with the person you are speaking with it helps show them that you are interested, and also increases the chances you are going to pay attention to what they are saying.

• Use empathy

  To use empathy you must try to see things from the perspective of the person or people you are communicating with. When you do this it can help you comprehend their message more accurately and also help you to form more insightful or thoughtful responses.

• Body language

  Be aware of the body language of other people, as well as your own body language when communicating. Body language can give off different signals, and you want to be able to read those in others and adjust your own body language to seem more open and warm.