Communication is a broad topic. It involves both non-verbal and verbal communication skills. The non-verbal communication skills are crucial and we talk about them often. But, today, let’s focus in on the verbal side of things from the perspective of a person actually speaking.

How can we organize our thoughts about these verbal communication skills? It can help to break them down to their basic elements as we’ve done below. continue reading »

What are the very most basic communication skills?

We have already offered a very lengthy list of specific communication skills. Then we categorized a more focused list of types of communication skills.

But today we are going to narrow all of these skills down to just 4 basic categories. continue reading »

There are several different types of communication skills that are worth keeping in mind.

Recently, we shared our list of communication skills and abilities, a thorough and very specific inventory of many of the capacities involved in all kinds and all phases of communication. But what categories do these many specific examples fall into? continue reading »