Communication doesn’t only mean what you talk about, but it also involves your body language, smile, eyes, posture everything. A smile is the first thing that anyone observes about you so a smile is important for deriving your impact on others. While staring into your eyes people understand you more, and the way you carry says about your confidence, attitude, and self-esteem which also help others in defining you.

1. Magic of Talking to
Anyone

3. With increasing digital technology, we say that the world is getting farther from each other and
communication is decreasing. But when it comes to a certain point whether it be health, emotions,
or even business there is no option other than communicating and speaking your mind. Even
digital platforms started flourishing only because of the human need for socialization.
As we have seen agile has always with its future vision decides its processes and concepts, and
communication is highly important in agile. Communication is one of the basic needs in agile in
software development, operations, and support. Compared to the traditional way agile has
understood the importance of communication in businesses at the very basic. Agile understood
that without successful communication there can be no successful team or successful
organization. They know how effective communication can change the smaller to larger things for
achieving high benefits, productivity, efficiency, and much more. The importance of
communication in agile can be seen with the concepts of daily stand-ups, retrospectives,
roadmap planning with team participation, and other events involvement on regular basis for
communication among team members, leaders, and executives with one.

5. Communication doesn’t only mean what you talk about, but it also involves your
body language, smile, eyes, posture everything. A smile is the first thing that
anyone observes about you so a smile is important for deriving your impact on
others. While staring into your eyes people understand you more, and the way
you carry says about your confidence, attitude, and self-esteem which also help
others in defining you.
Agile means being professional and improving ourselves, with an agile mindset
let’s see how to improve your communication for agile professionalism by
understanding the well-known book of Leil Lowndes “How to talk to anyone.” In
this book, there are given 92 tricks for better communication with anyone. In one
of our articles, have already discussed the important tips that can help in
improving communication in agile. So we will see the other aspect of
communication that must be considered while communicating.

6. How to initiate a conversation
There are two ways to initiate communication.
• What Zit Technique
This technique is more for people who are shy and do not know or can initiate a
conversation with anyone. In this technique, the person tries to draw the attention of
others towards themselves with help of things or items which encourage others to
approach them. This mainly includes visual objects or actions so that people get
attracted and curious to talk.
• Whooz-at Technique
This is for the persons who are more confident in their talking skills and are ready to
take initiative to talk by themselves. In this technique, they go and approach the person
or group that caught their attention and initiate a conversation by asking some random
questions.
While initiating communication keep the below points in check for presenting yourself
confident in a room full of professionals.

7. • Talk more about what you do at work rather than talking about where you work
• Only contribute when you know about the topic instead be silent when a topic is new
to you, speaking only when asked
• Avoid sounding smart and ‘know it guy’ all the time as this may present you as a
person desperately trying to impress putting your negative impact
Other than direct communication other ways of communication include
•Non-verbal
•Written and
•Visual
•Verbal
•Listen
• In agile each one of them is important as they can be used in one way or other. If we
see listening is also the part of communication way as unless and until you don’t listen
you don’t know what other wants, or trying to say, so that you can discuss or converse
with them further.

8. Communicating with a different person or group, the context, and methods of
communication change. For example, the way you speak to your seniors is way
different than speaking to your friend whether it is direct or through email.
The communication also changes with the understanding of the subject knowledge
by the other person. The discussion on advanced training with a beginner will be
different from the discussion with the two experts on that topic.
Initiating communication is the best way to share and sell your ideas and points.
When you know what to say at right time people will listen to you intently. The key
is to know what to speak and where to speak along with maintaining your
confidence, posture, and right attitude giving out a positive vibe. By understanding
the logic behind communication and improving yourself you can achieve the magic
on communication with anyone and grow beyond in agile and business.

9. About Advance Agility
We, at Advance Agility, are the new-age Agile Coaching, Consulting and IT services company.
We enable end-to-end Digital Transformation. Agile execution is integral to our being. We are
doing SAFe implementation with small, medium and large organization across the globe. Our
vision is to be the leading Agile execution player globally. To keep adding value at every
process stage. We are on a mission to empower our clients, move from concept to cash in the
shortest sustainable lead time by adopting human centric approach to business agility.
Embracing the change is in our DNA. Things that keep us apart are Quicker and Seamless
execution with End-to-end gamut of services. Our Global presence and Stellar Track Record
give us an edge over our competitor.
Connect with us at advanceagility.com to learn about SAFe and SAFe Implementation. We
provide various SAFe certification courses along with DevOps, Scrum, Agile Coaching and
more trainings. Write to us a contact@advanceagilty.com for any agile training or consulting
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