Getting your message across effectively
16 October 2004

When we want to learn something, we can take the initiative of going out and finding out what we need to know in order to facilitate this. Given the right environment, when we have a challenge that we want to solve, we are perfectly capable of solving it for ourselves. Whilst we may need help in various forms such as information, practical help, money, time, support, whatever, essentially we can solve it for ourselves.

Once we realise that we can take responsiblity for our own learning, we can then see that this could also be true for everyone else.

When we give out information, and we are aware that all of us are responsible for ourselves, we can be confident in trusting that other people will take whatever they need from the information we are trying to get across to them. We are treating others with the respect that we expect for ourselves. Each individual has the capacity to know what they need to learn for themselves and when. In fact, they are the best judge of that anyway! We are all intelligent, responsible beings.

We can help to provide the right environment when giving information by being encouraging and positive in the language we use. To improve our own environment, we can all find areas where we accept that we have done well, however small this may be, and this can then give us the confidence to believe that we can get things right. With this confidence we can transfer our ability to other areas of our lives and be confident that we can find the answers that work well for us individually, on our own initiative, in our own time.

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