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Career Tips
Group Discussion
Many companies conduct group discussion after the written test so as to check on your
interactive skills and how good you are at communicating with other people. The GD is to
check how you behave, participate and contibute in a group, how much importance do you
give to the group objective as well as your own, how well do you listen to viewpoints of
others and how open-minded are you in accepting views contrary to your own. The aspects
which make up a GD are verbal communication, non-verbal behaviour, conformation to norms,
decision-making ability and cooperation. You should try to be as true as possible to these
aspects.
General Tips
- A good level of general awareness
will come in handy so that you aren't at a loss of words on certain
issues.
- Understand the topic and analyse
it mentally before speaking.
- Be clear about the purpose and
content of your viewpoint.
- One should be able to communicate
his views in an effective manner to everyone. Be clear in speech,
audible but not too loud and above all remain confident.
- Remember the six C's of effective
communication -- Clarity, Completeness, Conciseness, Confidence,
Correctness and Courtesy.
- You should mantain eye contact
with all others in the group and not focus on a particular person
for he may benefit from that.
- Be responsive to ideas from other
people and seem to be very receptive and open-minded but don't allow
others to change your own viewpoint..
- Starting the discussion is
considered to be good however it isn't that important; what is important
is that you speak for a period long enough for you to be able to
communicate your viewpoint .
- Always mantain your calm and
never get aggresive. If you haven't been able to talk then one can
cut in saying "Excuse me, but what I think is .........." or something
of that sort.
- Never lose your temper and never
attack anyone on a personal front. Your attitude should be one of
cooperation and not one of conflict.
- Don't lose sight of the goal of
the discussion.
- Listen to any criticisms and give them a thought before trying to defend your views.
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