I have no clue why this article was written in the first place. Is this for people working in the MNC's? Or is it for people working in Nationalised Bank? Or hotels? or supermarkets? It is rather confusing.
Firstly, this article is incomplete. The writer is trying to imbibe certain western customs into a much broader subject of communication.
A namaste is how we greet in India. A handshake is what the West follows. Does it mean that a namaste is not effective communication? If we fold our hands in front of our elders, it is giving respect. If you do the same in an office in USA, it supposedly means you are uninterested!
Effective communication is a huge subject, which varies from industry to industry, country to country and people to people. What has been written here is probably for school kids to have a brief idea of communication in offices.
The writer should be very clear on the aspects of communication and body language. They are two different subjects. Trying to club both of them and writing it as "Effective Communication" is a feeble attempt.
They speak fast. and reason is fear. they get nervous. also lack breath. they say speaking is nothing but exhaling. we are not trained in breathing deeply. if you dont have enough air in lungs, obviously u cant speak with ease and power. most important is self awarness. if lack awarness of setting, you, other and medium where communication is taking place. you will fail. so awarness is most important. its basically self awarness. some mindfulness meditation can help u. dont listen to old Rajesh khanna and amitabh songs. they take u in fantasy. u get bad habit of living in unawarness.now days they are making songs with less bass and drum. they leave you in present moment. dont take u in unawarness.
the mishandling of the students in india starts with the very first call when they are told that A-Z are alphabets... come on teachers its alphabet... the first thing which we learn in india, we learn it wrong..
other errors which i teach in colleges--- fees, return back to home, restart the computer again, will come in the afternoon, etc etc...... this hapens because whoever doesnt get job in india becomes a teacher or opens a tuition centre and write tution as spell.
Re: ETIQUETTEs
by HELLO on May 17, 2011 09:54 AM
SPARE THE FELLOW FOR ENGLISH. ENGLISH IN PRIVATE SCHOOL IS NO BETTER.I HAVE FOUND MANY FROM PVT SCHOOL WITH POOR ENGLISH,EVEN THOUGH THEY USE ENGLISH MOSTLY IN DAILY LIFE.
MY OBSERVATION IS,IT DEPENDS ON THE PERSON MOSTLY FOR BETTER ENGLISH.
its never etiquettes its always etiquette... i request you to kindly give right information.. this is the reason why india is lacking in proper education inspite of the fact that the first university (takshilla) in world was opened in india...
Re: correction
by Hemanth K on May 17, 2011 11:29 AM
After staying in US for a decade I realized that small errors in spoken english are ok. Most of the americans don't use proper english. Its just colonized countries like India that are after perfect grammar. So my advise is take it is as long as the error is too esoteric for anyone to know.
Re: Re: correction
by manish sharma on May 17, 2011 11:33 AM
this hapens because that is their mother language. even we are not perfect in hindi becaoz it is our mother language. no one learns mother language thoroughly.. errors can be ignored but not when u r speaking in public forum where people tend to look at u as idols....i agree but its just a suggestion from me
