How Do I Improve My Social Skills?

Social skills can be a redoubtable challenge for individuals, insufficiency in this area can lead to a negative response, segregation and decreased confidence - but with little change in your attitude, behavior you can over come this problem. Many people face this problem because they have a lack of communication skills, lack of confidence and trust. Communication is most important aspect of life when you are living among people. You have to know what actually you want from others and others from you. so to know all about it you have to be flexible in your thoughts and attitude let the people come closer , listen to them and admired at the first hand but convinced them finally with your decision by giving good suggestions, incentives or what they like most .
Similarly you have to be confident enough to communicate and achieve your target. You must be sure enough what you are doing. Be positive in your thoughts. Try to help others in different ways. Help your classmates in projects. Or if you are an employee than help to your staff members but don't try to be too sweet .be good and efficient in your work. You will only receive acceptance from your circle only if you have good social skills.

The key to social skills is really listening, to much of our time is spent thinking about what to say and waiting for the other person to finish speaking, so that we can say something else back to them, for this reason we hear what they say, but we tend not to listen to them.

Asking questions based on what the other person is saying is the key to showing that you are listening, when the other person finds that you are truly listening, they will connect with you, mainly because you will find that they love talking about themselves.  If you are both good conversationalist, the conversational will flow back and forth from listening to speaking.

Don't be aggressive about the questioning, just find interesting things in what they are saying, you can show that you are listening by making eye contact when you are talking too, it's where most people go wrong,  usually due to being shy.