The principles behind effective communication techniques are easy to understand, and the techniques are not difficult to acquire. Moreover, it is by no doubt that effective communication skills are vital in our everyday lives. As most of us would embark on our career in a junior managerial position, there would be subordinates and superiors that we are both answerable to at the same time. I believe nothing would be more demeaning than having both parties chiding your poor communication skills, which reflect adversely on your professionalism.
Work aside, other social gatherings that calls for effective communication may include wedding dinners, entertaining clients, or even a casual dinner with prospective in-laws. A careless remark could have its repercussions, be it as trivial as making ridicule out of yourself or manifests into loss of business opportunities. Unless we decide to become hermits and live in recluse, there is no way we can avoid communicating with other people around us.
Being able to communicate effectively is often much easier said than done. Good listening and analytical skills are far more important pre-requisites we need to acquire before we can effectively bring across communication through any channels. The ability to communicate effectively not only enables the intention to be understood clearly and appropriately by people of different walks of lives, but also minimize the chances for misunderstandings and conflicts that can arise.
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Dear Adrian,
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I would like to say that the I like the layout of the blog that you adopted. Since my blog has the same layout but in slightly different tones, I'd like to say that you have excellent taste. =)
Secondly, your post was a very direct and easy read. I found your points very clear, with sufficient elaboration to every topic sentence. It was serious yet casual in a manner such that everyone, including me, could very easily relate to and understand it.
On another note, perhaps, you could write more on why effective communication is important to you personally? Such as, related specifically to your field of study? Perhaps more insight to that would make the post more personal.
Overall, I definitely enjoyed reading your post and found it very interesting.
With regards,
Jihan bte Ali Abdat
Hi Adrian,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with the reasons as to why we need to equip ourselves with effective communication skills. The examples you provided made it easy for me to relate it to situations I face in my own life.
I found your post light-hearted and easy to read. What I infer from your post as to why effective communication is important to you personally is that it helps create/maintain good interpersonal relationships, social networks which are essential for survival not as an individual but as an individual in a society where interactions are required for survival. I am not sure whether this is what you really meant.
However, it would have been great you could add in examples which are more personal instead of general so that we can better understand why it is important to you? Perhaps how you can relate it to your daily life.
I enjoyed your post and thanks for sharing :)
Hi Adrian,
ReplyDeleteYou have effectively described situations whereby one needs to be an effective communicator if he wants to leave a good impression of himself. And failing to do so will cause dire repercussions to his career. I have also found the examples that you used to illustrate this fact to be rather insightful as they extend from the career world to the other extreme of the spectrum to include mundane activities such as wedding dinners. I can also easily relate them to me
While Jihan and yhverity have pointed out that you did not stress out on why communication skills are important to you personally, I do not quite agree with them. Even though you did not explicitly made the statement, I noticed that you indirectly showed this personal importance. For instance, the sentence "As most of us would embark on our career in a junior managerial position..." illustrates that you are trying to relate the argument to your future career.
Also, on a minor note, there is one statement that I cannot seem to understand as you are showing contradicting opinions. I would like to guide your attention to the opening sentence of both the 1st and 3rd paragraphs, which are "....communication techniques are easy to understand, and the techniques are not difficult to acquire" and "Being able to communicate effectively is often much easier said than done." respectively. The 1st sentence claims that the 'techniques' easy to acquire, while the 2nd sentence claims that communicating effectively is rather difficult. My safe guess is that there could be a mismatch in our interpretations of techniques. (an example of confusion across the information channel?)
Besides this minor fact, the post was a pleasant reading experience,
Christopher
Dear Adrian
ReplyDeleteI hope you read my email about your blog.
You still do not have a philosophy or career statement.
Regards
Happy