Use of Common Sense Examples in Real Life Situations

 The list of use of common sense can be summarized using a simple mnemonic TOAST FAST. Everyone, by nature, possess common sense and that is why it is called so. TOAST FAST stands for:

Touch
Olfactory (Smell)
Auditory (Hear)
See
Taste
TOAST can be considered as very basic set of common sense. while the below list can be classified as intermediate:

Feel 
Act
Subconscious
Thought
Here is the list of examples for TOAST FAST:

Touch Examples

1. Intrapersonal: when you sit relaxed, do you consciously feel the touch of your own palms on your chin, your hands resting on the table, your legs touching the floor. your back touching the wall when you lean
2. Interpersonal: when you consciously realize the touch of your loved one, emotions such as love, affection, trust and compassion develops.

Olfactory (smell) Examples

Type A: smell of flowers, fragrance, delicious food, room and car freshners, sandal etc.

Type B: smell of chemical burning, LPG cylinder, foul smell, pungent smell and so on.

Auditory Examples

1. Close to you to away from you: all the noises and sounds you hear things and people close to you and those voices and sounds that you hear away from you. for instance, the sound of the bell of a temple when you sit at home.
2. One Vs many noises: just close your eyes and listen to what you hear and you'll stunned, at the same time, at a given interval of time, you would hear many noises and sounds such as fan noise, children playing, old man coughing, keyboard typing and so on.

See Examples

You see the colour, shape, size, distance, texture, age and beauty of an object

Taste Examples

Sweet, Hot, Soar, Salt and plain are the common taste

Feel

HEAPS : you feel Happy, Embarrassed, Anticipation and curiosity, Puzzled and Spiritual.

Act

You act Tangible, walk, jump, sit, talk, and intangibly such as being responsible, taking decisions, and wait patiently.

Subconscious 

Though classified under common sense, it happens without your knowledge but you can sense it when you observe. Example, your heart beat, pulse, eye blink and breathing.

Thoughts

You think Optimistically, Pessimistically, Empathetically and Neutrally

So common sense is quite common and you do not put any effort as it is there naturally in you as a human being.

Examples of Persuasion in Real Life Situations

How to Persuade your Dad, Mother, Wife, Son, Daughter, Girl or Boy

Humans possess a special skill; remembering things. From an accountant to Einstein, good memory skills not only aids in solving many issues but also helps to apply the proven techniques again and again in the same order.

5C is a simple mnemonic to memorize the art of convincing people not just once but again and again to reap long term results.

5C mnemonic summarizes ways to convince someone:

1. Calculate
2. Care
3. Command
4. Consider
5. Compensate

Show Precise Calculations and Convince

In fact, top politicians, sales professionals, and business negotiators use the technique of calculation approach. Any factual information, legal details, statistics, and universal truths can serve to justify the point of persuasion.

For example, dad can tell her daughter not to drive recklessly by substantiating legal driving rules, laws and penalties so that she will be aware of the consequences.

Convince a Person by Showing that you Care

Humans have emotions and feelings. When the other party knows the genuine interest and intentions behind a persuasion, it is easy to persuade and convince almost everybody.

For example, husband who want her wife to involve in social activities can persuade by saying, "I really want you to spend time visiting old-age homes and orphanage as I am really concerned about your contribution to our society because I care for you"

Commanding is One Type of Leadership Too

Being authoritative is a skill. Only few are comfortable with it demands an attitude of "Do what I say". Depending on the duration, intensity and degree any relationship convincing by commanding works.

For example, a father can tell his son to keep the room tidy by just raising his voice with a commanding tone, "I expect you to tidy up your room by evening"

Considering is not Convincing but Getting Convinced

In fact, this dominates all the other Cs of convincing technique as it simply changes the attitude of persuader flip side up so that the point is seen from the others' perspective and agreeing to what they say.

For example, a salesperson can stop selling a pen to person who insists that buying a pen is not useful as he has lot of pens at home and he hardly writes these days. 

Calm is being Silent

Being silent gives time for both the parties, the person who persuades and the person who gets persuaded, time to think, reflect and analysis the points of view.

Compensating is After a Person Gets Convinced

In many instances, a person gets convinced but the consequences may not result the way it was supposed to be. At this point, the convincer compensates for the issue so that it falls back to how it was earlier.

For example, a boy promises to his girl-friend for a movie but gets canceled due to an emergency can be compensated with going to a restaurant close by.

Coining a mnemonic device does not require a pen or a paper. close the eyes and collecting all the points, rearranging them in a memorizable order is what one requires to come up with innovative mnemonics. Though there are many other methods, 4C mnemonic is one of the collection of persuasion techniques that can come handy to almost everyone who likes to memorize the art of convincing people in both personal and professional life events.

Virtual Online Coaching Tips and Best Practices with Examples

Effective soft skills and behavioral skills are the two essentials while having any business virtual conferences, coaching, meetings, facilitation, moderation and training. Soft skills is a reflection of your intrapersonal and interpersonal attitude, is the way your present and interact; While behavioral skills is the way you behave that includes planning, organizing and managing the tasks, time and things. 10P is simple mnemonic that will help to recall some of the important telephone etiquette tips for every business professional.

9P mnemonic summarizes the list of tips that stands for:-

Empathize customers over phone

2. Prepare

3. Place

4. Pen

5. Paper

6. Present

7. Pleasant

8. Pause

9. Put a pleasing end

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Plan and Prepare your Call 

With patience, sketch your call before picking up the telephone receiver:

1. Have I noted down all the points that needs to be spoken?

2. Do I have all the supporting details of the call?

Pen that Writes

Put down your conversation through words, diagrams, flowcharts and sketches. The more innovative you are the better you this instrument. Pen!

Paper; Trivial but Vital

You would save anywhere between 15-50 seconds when you keep a paper or a notepad handy before the call. It serves not only as a reference but makes you recall even after the call end so that you can reflect on the conversation.

Choosing Right Place 

If you are taking a professional business call, it is always appropriate to choose a silent meeting room than a crowded noisy cubicle. Remember, choosing a right place, during a telephonic conversation, not only enhances the quality of the call but also creates an atmosphere of trust for the receiver.

In fact, having a pen and a paper handy, and choosing the right place before making a call is one to the basics of telephone interview etiquette for all job seekers.

What to Present During the Call? 

Ideally, every phone call should have an effective introduction that start with

--A good greeting, good morning, good afternoon, thanks for calling etc..,

--A clear introduction of name, company.

--A chronological order of education and experience.

In addition, you can build rapport by casually talking about your hobbies and interests but with caution.

Being Pleasant Emotions

One basic human value is being courteous. You can bring courteousness through your Tone of voice,  or by choosing polite and kind words and phrases such as please, thank you, you're welcome, I can understand that, you are kind(genuine) and so on.

Taking Pauses is Yet Another Phone Etiquette

Non-verbal communication is as important as oral communication. Pauses during a telephone conversations are taken for two reasons; One, pauses shows respect and consideration of the receivers' points and encourages the receiver to talk. Two, pauses helps you to recall information and respond appropriately to the questions. Pauses also help each other to reflect and comprehend that has been spoken during telephone conversation. It also shows that you have good listening skills.

If you do not know when to take a pause, just genuinely involve your heart into the conversation and you will take natural pauses intuitively and instinctively.

Put a Pleasing End

Whether the call is successful or not, ending the telephone call with same enthusiasm, energy and excitement determines the positive attitude of a person. Words and phrases such as "Thank you for your call", "I really enjoyed the conversation with you", shows the interest and positive acceptance during the telephone conversation. Also replace negative words with positive or neutral words and phrases.

Being a professional is one of the life roles almost all of us play in our life time. 9P mnemonic can add value to your online virtual platform to conduct remote coaching, facilitation workshops. Use this mnemonic 10P as a memory aid to recall some of the basic telephone etiquette tips before taking a customer service job interview.

For bot professional and personal life, etiquette plays a vital role. Here, whether you're a sales and/or customer service representative, or a call center agent, follow these simple etiquette tips to excel in your profession. This practice is one of the best ways to show empathy with customers over phone or chat.

Real Life Examples and Situations of Creative Thinking

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Note Making Examples using 6S Mnemonic

Types of Note Making for College Students and Business Professionals-using Easy Mnemonic 6S

Understanding the human memory is fascinating. People take conscious effort to enhance their memory skills through various memory techniques. Mnemonic devices are one such method to remember long list of names, objects and concepts. And, it can be applied for note taking skills too. For both college students and office executives, 6S--is a simple mnemonic, to remember various types of effective note making strategies.

For college students, this memory trick will help while noting academic lectures; For business professionals, 6S mnemonic comes handy while making notes during meetings.
Importance of Note making and 6S mnemonic Device

Two purposes of note making notes are:- 

1. Capture whatever has been discussed.
2. Refer and reflect whenever the notes are required.
There are varieties of creative problem solving strategies, such as Cornell note taking program, mind mapping, idea mapping and concept mapping. 6S mnemonic device, yet another simple technique, that can be applied to almost all the types of note taking techniques.

The checklist include:
1. Shape

2. Size
3. Show Up
4. Shade
5. Spot
6. Skew

Shape, Symbols and Signs and abbreviations Save Time

During a business meeting, writing a triangle against a list may simply mean that the list is in increasing order. A tick and a cross symbol during an academic lecture may show the dos and don’ts of a topic. Giving a common code or sign for a group of similar things can save time on repetition of writing.

Use of an abbreviation, a shortcut, or a formula are other best ways of taking notes in class or while summarizing from the text book.

How to Take Meeting Notes? Increase or Decrease the Size

Minutes of meeting is one common business scenario faced by almost all business executives, and the shortage of time is one common challenge. Changing the font size to extremely big or minutely small, slanting or bold indicates emphasis or importance of a particular point in a meeting. later, during leisure, before giving the final minutes of the meeting report, the notes could be converted in to business language with right words and phrases.

One Note-Many Shades

Recognizing colors is one of the admired traits of humans beings. Many note takers color code for reference. For instance, while taking notes during a meeting, using green may indicate completed tasks, yellow shows yet to complete and red reveals impossible to complete tasks. So, by just looking at this sticky note, the message is clear and crisp on the status of the task.

Show Up(highlight) for Emphasis-A Simple Note Taking Style

Many students learn this study habit during middle school. Highlighting a point by using contrasting background colors, or by spacing the fonts farther are some of the most common methods of study techniques followed by students. In fact, this style can be applied both while writing on books or working in the computer.

And, highlighting a note can be effective while taking meeting notes too.

Altering the Spot(Position)—Specially for College Students

Position indicates modifying the location. Some examples of changing the position include writing notes upside down, scribbling in the extreme corners of the page, or writing only in the middle of page. This is one of the basics of note taking methods used by teachers, and lectures during lesson planning.

Break the Conventional Type to Linear-Skew it up (Change the Direction)

It is common to see that many note takers use linear note taking while writing the outline of topic. Instead, for a change, changing the direction of notes can be both appealing and comprehensive. Tony Buzan’s mind mapping is one such technique that encourages the note takers to break the linear note taking habit. Some people also write the words vertically to show prominence.

Show Up(highlight) for Emphasis-A Simple Note Taking Style

Many students learn this study habit during middle school. Highlighting a point by using contrasting background colors, or by spacing the fonts farther are some of the most common methods of study techniques followed by students. In fact, this style can be applied both while writing on books or working in the computer.

And, highlighting a slide can be effective while delivering meeting slides too.

Altering the Spot(Position)—Specially for College Students

Position indicates modifying the location. Some examples of changing the position include writing notes upside down, scribbling in the extreme corners of the page, or writing only in the middle of page. This is one of the basics of note taking methods used by teachers, and lectures during lesson planning.

Break the Conventional Type to Linear-Skew it up (Change the Direction)

It is common to see that many presenters use linear note taking while writing the outline of topic. Instead, for a change, changing the direction of notes can be both appealing and comprehensive. Tony Buzan’s mind mapping is one such technique that encourages the note takers to break the linear note taking habit. Some people also write the words vertically to show prominence.


There are variety of note making styles and shortcuts and each method has its own benefits and advantages. 6S mnemonic device, which summarize the basic types of note making methods, can be applied by both students and business professionals in class and at work. Creative thinking plays an important role in order to develop this style.Creative Visual Storytelling Technique Examples Writing Prompts

Order of Adjectives How to Remember and Teach in a Fun Way

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Adjectives is one essential content and function words and remember the royal order of adjectives in English and how to use them in sentences using this simple mnemonic device example ODASCOM, that stands for:-

List of Royal Order of Adjectives
in English with Examples

• Opinion
• Dimension
• Age
• Size
• Color
• Origin
• Material

Opinion: Mostly, Opinion Adjectives are Personality Adjectives. Opinion words are the good example adjectives to describe a person, or a thing. It shows beliefs, judgments, attitudes, and outlook of a noun.

Decision Making Examples and Situations in Real Daily Life - 4 Types

Decision making is one of the vital elements of influencing skills and PEARL is a simple mnemonic that reminds how to make decisions especially during critical times and crisis events.

PEARL summarizes the different techniques of taking decisions:

Life Changing Decisions Examples List

1. Perceptions and Beliefs
2. Ethical
3. Apathy, Empathy, Sympathy
4. Rational
5. Legal

Perception based Decision making is Intuitive

Perception based decision making is especially helpful when there is no evidences or proofs that can support the outcome.

Example, 

Customers who buy new branded products, which are yet to flourish in the business market, make their buying decision based on merely perception or intuition.

Ethical Decision making Aligns a Person to Society Values

Each culture has its own origin, tradition, customs and beliefs. While making decisions, one must also consider the ethical sensitivity and include alternatives that abide the social beliefs and opinions.

Example, 

Many teenagers choose between an arranged marriage and a love marriage based on their ethical sensitivity.

Humans take Emotional Decisions as they are Humans
From falling in love to adapting a child, taking decisions keeping others' emotions and feeling in to consideration is vital. in fact, before taking any major life decisions many people delay or slow down to examine whether their friends and family members will be supportive in their choice. Emotional decision making includes apathy, sympathy and empathy behaviors.

Conventional Rational Decision making still has its Charm
From getting into a love relationship to taking a crucial business investment decisions, decision makers rely on logic. They collect information, statistics, and details, analyze trends, see the pros and cons before making a decision.

For example, before accepting a job offer, a job seeker browses through the company website to see the reputation and position of the company

Every Decision must Abide Legally
Though it takes time to understand the legal procedures, laws and policies, one must spend time researching on what is right and wrong in the society they live in. indeed, a decision maker enjoys peace of mind after making a decisions that abides by law.

For example, an entrepreneur or a business professional who is planning to start a firm can do a thorough research on company acts and laws before making any decisions.

In several situations, decisions has to be made spontaneously on the spot where there is no time to even think about alternatives. PEARL is a simple easy-to-recall mnemonic. Once memorized, this wonderful mnemonic device can be used even during the most critical decision making circumstances.

Time Management Real Life Examples and Situations

Time management includes planning, multitasking, organizing and prioritizing. It is one of the influencing skills and it can be memorized using a simple acronym DOSES

Creative Time Management Habits Tips using a mnemonic 4D

Do : Do it immediately and close it
Delete: just delete it from your list 
Delegate: let someone do that job, pay them or reassign the responsibility
Discount: if you've to do the job for 2 days, talk to the manager and get a discount to do it in a day and the rest let the manager assign to someone else.
Delay: sometime procrastination is good. just wait. just because you've time, don't do things that are not important at that moment.

Different Types of Time Management

Time management can broadly divided into 5 types:

1. Different times
2. One after another
3. Simultaneously 
4. Everytime (frequently)
5. Suddenly (unexpected)

Different times 

We do various tasks at different times. for example, some of our chore time is household activities, office work, vacation, meeting friends and relative, spending time alone are some of the examples of different times. You can plan these activities in order to manage time.

Prioritizing time Chronologically, One after Another: Organizing is subset of planning. After you plan you organize these activities one after another to manage time effectively and efficiently.

For example, you can organize your regular household activities on a weekend. You say to yourself, " this Saturday, I would first go to supermarket, pick vegetables and fruits, and then go to apparel shop, buy shirts and sweaters, and finally, in the evening, I will meet my relative and come back home".

Doing All Tasks at a Time is Multitasking

A very simple example of multitasking is driving a car. While driving, you do so many things at a time, steer, apply clutch, changing gears, accelerate while steering and so on. Multitasking requires practice and focus.

Organizing time based on its frequency (every-time)

There are several tasks that differs in its frequency. Few everyday examples includes paying your electricity bills, mobile bills, renewing your license and insurance policies. Organize them in your to do list, prioritize them as per the expiry date to manage time.

Forecasting your Sudden Unexpected Tasks

Especially at workplace, an unforeseen task is quite common. These tasks are unexpected but sits in the priority list of the work schedule. Therefore, many business professionals are quite smart and they dedicate a buffer time to compensate the unanticipated task or forecast it proactively.

For example, a good manager always sets aside 2 extra days to deliver an office project so that last minute tasks, changes and corrections could be accommodated in this buffer time.

When you are conscious about how you spend your time, you can influence it, manage it and control it. This simple acronym DOSES can come handy if you'd like to recall some of the types of time management.

Rapport Building Communication Games - Icebreakers and Energizers

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Here is a list of team both intrapersonal and interpersonal games fun quick free youth team building games that you can play with your friends, at work place that require or need anything, means you don't need any materials, props or equipment to play these games.

Action Games

8 with Hands, 6 with Legs

In the sitting posture, make participants write the numbers in the air,  number 8 using hand, number 6 using leg, at the same time. 

Games without Props Examples

5 Dance Steps in Groups

A group of participants perform 5 (or 10-15) dance steps, all at once, without slip-up. The more dance steps the team performs in groups, the winner.

Games without Props - Group Dance

Verbal Communication - Real Life Everyday Examples

 Broadly, verbal Communication can be broadly classified into a simple mnemonic/acronym called SAIL:

Silence
Ask
Inform
Listen

Silence: effective communication is about being silent in the following real life situations

1. Intrapersonal: being silent when you are confused and don't understand life
2. Interpersonal: being silent when you do not understand people behavior, thoughts, intent and actions
3. Extrapersonal: being silent and observe the world when you are suprised, shocked and puzzled.

While being silent, you can focus on breathing, take the opportunity and practice waiting skills

Ask: Ask when:

1. when you're not clear/clear
2. paraphrase what you've understood and ask, "did I get it right?"
3. use different types of art of questioning skills, probing, empathetic, declarative, leading questions, open ended and close ended questions

Inform: tell people:

1. how you generally behave in certain positive and challenging situations
2. how you feel about yourself and others in certain daily life situations
3. express capability, possibility, request, gratitude, apology, permissions, empathy, and suggestions

Listen:

1. listen actively
2. understand words, emotions, thoughts and intent
3. listen loud:, say, "I'm thinking" rather than just keeping quite. people should know what you're thingking

Moderation Vs Facilitation Vs Training

Coaching Vs Mentoring

In coaching, objective is set by coachee and is defined clearly. for example, I want to improve my voice as I want to become a movie star. In mentoring, objectives are identified, defined, guided and counselled by the mentor. for example, Mentee says, "I want to become a movie star, for that first thing I've to do is improve my voice". Mentor (ideally a popular actor) responds, "I'm sorry, as a mentor, I recommend you to improve your physical fitness before working on your voice."

Speech Vs Lecture

You give a speech in order to express your feelings, thoughts, opinions and beliefs while a lecture is given by an expert, a professor, for example, to a set of students. Speech is informal talk while a lecture is an educational talk.

Presentation Vs Training

In a presentation your objective is to convey the message, information and knowledge you have in your mind while in a training your objective is to understand what your audience want and align you’re your information as per your audience expectations.

Training Vs Facilitation

In a training, you will have the control over the information, content and the objectives. You can decide the objective while in a facilitation, the content will be pre-defined by the organization and you may not alter the objectives and are expected to deliver the content as-it-is.

Facilitation Vs Moderation

While in Facilitation, the objective of the program is already decided by either the facilitator or any other business stakeholders such as managers, vendors or team supervisor but in moderation, the very OUTCOME could be define the objectives. 

List of Human Life Motives with Examples

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Here is a list of common personal responsibilities with all might have to fulfill. These are some most common, popular life aspirations, objectives by age from 10, 30 to all your life including relationship goals. It is a chart or checklist you can consider. put this in your dairy or journal. it is for girls, boys, couples and for your personal growth. Keep this as a motivation, a mind map. this is also for people who believe that life has no goals or purpose. Take a quiz or treat this as a questionnaire of young adults and for seniors. It could life goals zen habits:

List of Common life responsibilities with Examples

1. Health
2. Environment
3. Aspirations
4. Relationship goals
5. Things and materials
6. Society: contributing to the society

Health

Health includes mental and physical.

Mental

People aspire this responsibility of being contented, satisfied, being happy and peaceful.

Physical

People set personal goals to be physically healthy. It includes loosing or gaining weight, making cosmetic changes, ensuring basic daily activities are done by themselves without depending on others

Environment

People set life responsibility towards improving the environment around them. This includes leading a sustainable life. Contributing towards other living and non living species and things around them. It includes enhancing the lives of plants and animals around them.

Aspiration

Personal aspirations, majorly professional, include superior or quality education, finding a dream job, excel in the present job towards technical and managerial positions.

Relationship

Relationship goals include taking care of parents, children, spouse and grandchildren. It includes spending time with the loved once, going on a vacation with relatives and friends.

Things

These are materialistic goals such as buying an expensive mobile phone, owning a house, making more wealth.

Society

Improving one's own community, country, group or family can be categorized under this goal. It includes paradigm shift in the belief system of a society, changing the mindset of society towards an opinion or idea, bringing trends in the community, religion, influencing people around towards a common goal.

Setting life goals is an important everyday intrapersonal life skill and it helps to perform our life roles in an efficient and effective manner. It aids you when you life make life transitions, make personal decisions and handle intrapersonal value conflicts. On the other hand, it also enhances your interpersonal intelligence as it will help you to build interesting personal and professional relationships and resolve interpersonal conflicts, because you're quite clear about your life goals. Depending on the time, values, effort and passion, one can achieve either all of the goals or any one or more of them. Above all, it also depends on to what degree each of these goals are achieved. Some may want to spend their entire life towards achieving just one goal listed above. For example, one may spend the entire life to ensure that they live together with his/her spouse all through the life by relaxing all the rest of the goals. With a little patience and perseverance, you'll be able to memorize and remember this simple memory aid, HEART mnemonic, to recall all your common life responsibilities though it requires patience and perseverance.

Positive Verbal Communication Feedback Examples List

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List of Appreciation Words, Phrases Statements

Here is a list of persuasive words, phrases and statements that you can use to persuade others:-

1. Supportive
2. Some-else-also-liked-it
3. Self phrases
4. Selling Words
5. Superlative Adjectives
6. Soft Words
7. Specific
8. Suggesting Solutions
9. Simple words
10. So-what, be happy statements
11. Seeking phrases (Rapport Questions)
12. Super

Supportive statements

Persuasive Verbal Speech Presentation Skills List with Examples

Imparting skills is one of the five i's of persuasion and scintillating human relationships flourish when you learn basic persuasion skills and communication skills. besides win-win intentions, an admiring persuader should have good pronunciation with clear, crisp and upbeat voice, comprehensive organization of the content that is clear and to the point, an appropriate body language that suits the presentation, and a good usage of stage. All these qualities and attitudes constitute basic elements of persuasive presentation skills.

This simple mnemonic, TABLETS helps you to memorize basic elements of persuasive presentation, with examples:

1. Thoughts/Attitude

2. Articulation/Pronunciation and language

3. Body Language/Non-verbal Communication

4. Logos or logical

5. Energy/enthusiasm

6. Topic and Content

7. Stage Presence

Thoughts and Attitudes shows Emotional Intelligence during Persuasion; Ethos of Persuasion

By enhancing the emotional intelligence, even an average facilitator can succeed by delivering an admiring presentation.

Simply put, emotional intelligence is about 4S:

Self Awareness : persuaders are aware of their strengths (intrapersonal attitude)

Self Management : persuaders who learn to manage their attitude. (intrapersonal skills-subliminal persuasion skills)

Social Awareness : persuaders who are aware of their audience. (interpersonal attitude)

Social Management : persuaders who learn to manage their audience. (interpersonal skills)

Articulation

Pronouncing words correctly with precise stress is very important for a facilitator. If you are not sure how to pronounce any words, browse through online dictionaries as some of the top online dictionaries such as Merriam and Oxford provides recorded audio on almost all English words and its variance.

Examples of few commonly mispronounced words such as environment, government, question, suggestion and representative could be found in online dictionaries which clarifies both American and British pronunciation rules.

Body Language is a Visual Persuasion Tool

Examples of a professional body language includes good eye contact, good posture, good hand-movements, and professional gestures are vital for a facilitator. Also, ensure not to use postures and gestures such as pointing hands, scratching head, shrugging shoulders and shrinking eye-brows as these gestures may distract the attention of the audience from the main idea.

Language

Besides good grammar and organization of the content, use of language plays a vital role while delivering a presentation. Professional facilitators use variety of language tools such as figure of speech, Rhetorical devices, literary devices, and tropes. Similis and metaphors are few basic figures of speech while procatelepsis, onomatopoeia, zeugma and anadiplosis are few advanced linguistic devices examples that are commonly used while delivering a presentation.

They are also good at applying verbal communication tools such as rapport building statements and transition statements in speech.

In addition, the language should be devoid of mother tongue influence and verbal fillers.

 

Energy, Enthusiasm, Entice, Encourage is Pathos of Persuasion

Before persuasion, if you, "Strongly Agree" with the below points, you will naturally be enthusiastic and energetic.

Do I love the topic that I'm going to present?

Do I have a strong belief on the topic that I'm going to present?

To bring energy and enthusiasm, one can conduct icebreaker games and energizers to bring life to the presentation. And starting the presentation with good ignition and attention grabbing statements are some ways to retain the excitement all through the presentation.

Topic and Content is the King

Topic

Make sure you content as not only interesting and but engaging topics and subtopics. Each topic and subtopic should ideally answer the basic 5 Ws and 2 Hs questions that include Who, What, Why, When, Where and How and How long.

Content

Your content could be sub-divided into IBC mnemonic (Introduction (including self-introduction), Body and Conclusion) so that audience are clear about what you want to say.

Stage Presence; A Professional Persuasion Tool

You must ask these questions while using the stage

Am I standing in a place where everybody can see me?

Am I standing in the right direction facing both the sides of the audience?

Am I avoiding some prominent distracting movements on the stage such as tennis court movement, chained elephant movement or pendulum movement?

Am I maintaining good distance from the audience?

So, enhance your TABLETS before persuasion and impress the audience like never before. This mnemonic comes handy to remember some of the basic elements of persuasion to deliver an effective presentation professionally.