General skills:

The general skills that make a presentation a success include adapting content and style of said presentation to suit the audience, asking questions and having the audience give them the answers and other techniques that keeps the audience engaged. 

The reason why adapting the content and style of a conversation is important is because if you are talking to a specific group such as an employer and then talk to them about something that has nothing to do with the job and discuss it in the same way you talk to your friends then you will look not only foolish but you will also loose the attention of the person that you are trying to motivate making you not only fail to your message across but you won’t get the job that you were seeking as well. 

The reason why asking questions to that person is a good thing to do is because it keeps him/her on their toes so they begin to really pay attention to you because they don’t want to be shown up because they weren’t listening to what to you were saying however to do that you need to make sure that you ask questions to the audience that are on the topic that you are talking about instead of asking random questions (which links back to adapting the content and style of the conversation to suit the audience).  

The reason why it is important to add other engagement techniques to your lecture/presentation is because one of those techniques is to change the tone of your voice every so often in the conversation so that when you do you will gain the attention of the person and stop it from sounding boring so instead you should talk in a more positive tone when talking about a positive subject and talk in a more negative tone when talking about a negative or serious tone so the audience can know how you feel on the topic.

Interpersonal skills:

The next three skills that are good to have so that your conversations sound more exciting are down to how you act while in the conversation instead of how you speak in said conversation, these include positive and negative language in the conversation, active engagement and the different types of questions you may ask. 

The reason why positive and negative language in a sentence is important is because if you are discussing a sad, important or serious topic then it is inappropriate to be using positive language and vice verse with a positive topic so you must keep negative language to negative topics and positive language to positive topics in order to stop your audience from being completely confused (this can also class as another important engagement technique) it is also important to know when and how to use the right mix of positive and negative language depending on the type of audience you are talking to. 

The reason why being actively engaged is important in a conversation is because when the other person or other people are answering back on your comments then you must show that you are alert to what they are saying and that you are interested in what they want to say because if you look bored or distracted in front of the employer while he/she is talking to you then they will consider it a sign of rudeness and they will not accept you into their workplace or university unless you show that you are engaged in the conversation. 

And the reason why using different types of questions inside conversation is because if you are talking about a sad topic or if you are in a serious conversation then you need to be using more closed questions whereas if you were talking with your friends then you would use more open questions. 

Written communication:

The final group of skills that teaches you how to communicate with other people effectively come in the form of writing and what you wright to people.  These include what you wright/type in letters faxes and emails, the level of spelling and grammar that you have and the structure of the work. 

The reason why the correct use of language in a letter, a fax or an email is important is because if you are sending in your cv to an employer or your university application to the university that you would like to join via any of the three ways that have been listed then you must check that you have made sure that you have made the text readable without putting it into an unreadable font, used informal language instead of formal language or used any slang what so ever or the employers or university scouts will not take the letter, fax or email seriously and they will just engorge it leaving you without a job or without a high quality education. 

The reason why spelling and grammar is important is much for the same reasons why using good language in emails, letters and faxes are important so they also contribute massively to making you look good in front of employers and university scouts. 

Finally the reason why the structure of a written piece of work is important is because if the job applicant or the university applicant is untidy and it only has one paragraph then the person who will be reviewing the case will not be able to read it meaning that they will reject you without actually looking at the letter, fax or email that you sent in.