Professional business communication skills
You’ve built the relationship, gotten the meeting, made a great presentation, and you’re about to close the sale. However, there's a silent-but-deadly danger lurking that can undermine your best efforts. The last thing you need is for your non-verbal communication to get in the way of a huge triumph. Poor body language in sales can be a deal breaker. The next time you find yourself at a critical sales moment, here are a few elements to remember to ensure your physicality is motivating your prospect to buy, not pushing them out the door :
"Let's put a pin in that and circle back around in the breakout sessions, shall we? Or let's just offline it and I'll ping you later."
Ummm. What?
At this point, we've all become fluent in business-speak. Every now and again, some new idea arises for which the collective consciousness suddenly births a new term, and before we know it we're all "downloading" each other on new information. We not only create the dictionary, but then immediately put it into use.
Read MoreTopics: Business Etiquette, Business Communication Skills
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why is it important for business and professional students to develop good communication skills, and why
Because the better people can communicate with each other the quicker and easier things can be accomplished. If you have to struggle to understand what the other person is trying to say, or you're having trouble expressing your thoughts/posing your questions, things are going to be slowed down and it'll be difficult to get stuff done.
