In this section, we're really going to dive deeper into fundamentals of communication that are going to work for you, regardless of the situation, but it's important to be well grounded in the fundamentals. Let's start at the very beginning. What is it you want the person you're communicating with? to do? I need you to really ask yourself that. Now I'm assuming in most communication, you want somebody do something you want them to hire you, you want them to give you a raise, you want them to invest in you want them to like you, what is it.

Now there are some purely social conversation time you're trying to communicate and you're just building rapport and just having fun. There's nothing wrong with that. Most of the focus of this course is how to build your communication skills not just for business purposes, but to help you Get things you want to help you communicate with people to lead them to where do you want to go? It may be how do you persuade family members to take a hike with you? On Sunday morning, rather than sitting around watching TV, it doesn't have to be anything specific to business or money, or professional, but it is about communicating to motivate people to do something. So the very first step, if you want to have strong communication skills is you have to decide in your own brain.

What is it I actually want the people I'm speaking to to do. It sounds obvious, it sounds basic, but in so many instances, especially in professional life in the corporate arena, when people are giving speeches, briefings, talks, PowerPoint, they haven't thought this through. They're just trying to pass along this huge body of knowledge and everything in lost in the shuffle. So that's the starting point, what is one thing you want that person or those persons you're speaking to, to actually do? After you've communicated your message, maybe you want your child to clean the garage or his or her room, you know what the outcome is? Now you got to figure out how to communicate that in a way, so that it's understood, remembered, and there's some kind of motivation to make it happen.

So here's what I want you to do. Now, I want you to think of a particular communication goal you have a specific scenario could be work could be professional could be personal. And I want you to go to the q&a section and just type up You don't have to do a video but just type up what is the one thing you would like an individual you're communicating with today or a group of individuals? What is it you want? them to do. Go ahead, type that in the q&a section right now.