'Why Effective Communication is Important?'
'Having some problem dealing with someone?' 'Been in trouble cause of misunderstanding?' 'Have fantastic career, but can't get a job offer'... Almost every person might have experience these kind of problem. What is the problem for those? Can we find anything in common?
I think it is because those people don't have enough communication skill. Not just normal kind of communication, effective communication. In our world, everyday we meet people from different background. Every single person have different character, so we should use different communication skills. Here is several cases that can explain why effective communication is important.
First, everyday life have different kind of pattern and situation. Everyday is 24 hours, everyweek is 7 days, a month is 30 or 31 days, and a year is average 365 days. These things are repeated during one's whole life. But if one takes a look at day by day situation. It is a total 'Chaos'. There isn't a day that can be just the same as a previous days.
For example, High school students have repeated course with a period of 4 or 5 days. But everyday you learn different things, and even though you play with your friends you won't do the exact same thing as the day before. So even though you do the same act as the previous day to your friends, one day your friend takes it as a joke, but one day your friend can recieve it seriously.
This might because your friend is in different kind of mood than yesterday. And even though you know about it, you didn't know the right way to act.
Second, let's take a look at business case. A employee went to a important meeting and wanted to smoothen the atmosphere. And said a joke that he used to use to his/her friend. Would this really helps him in that meeting?
Finally, in my case, soon i will have to write a resume for graduate school. What should I do to appeal myself better and give professor a confident about me?
In these several cases, what would be the solution? There isn't a exact solution for every situation. As professor told us, there isn't a book like a dictonary for us to look up. Individual should deal every single case with one's previous experience, knowledge and so on. But what if we know basic knowledge about effective way to communicate with others. Knowing which words or phrase selection is proper in business, personal relation, talking with seniors, we can organize things out the way we want it to be organized.
So effective communication ; knowing which situation I'm in and choosing the right communication channels, writing skills. We can set up a better life. That is the reason I'm taking this course.
P.S. even in this project there is errors that I didn't realize and just write. I want to reduce these errors as possbile as I can. That's My GOAL !! ^___^
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Hi Mike,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your thoughts about communications and taking the courage to make improving english one of your objectives when you are on exchange. We will help each other out in this aspect alright?
I agree with you that communications take place everyday and it is a dynamic process. The way we communicate with different individuals and handle different situations will depend on their personality and how they perceive things.
One thing which I would want to add is that communication involves more than just saying things but rather, our non-verbal way of communicating plays a big part in effective communications.
I guess that I echo one of your goals to learn how to write an effective resume to prepare us for the future in the the working world and make us more marketable.
Thanks for the post and continue striving on.
Lionel
Hey Mike,
ReplyDeleteGood job with the english writing! You're ideas are presented in quite a clear manner that I can thoroughly understand. Furthermore, I like the fact that you use a lot of analogies in the explaination of your issue at hand. Well done!
With respect to the content of your post, 1 thing that hit me the hardest is the fact that
"even though you do the same act as the previous day to your friends, one day your friend takes it as a joke, but one day your friend can recieve it seriously.
This might because your friend is in different kind of mood than yesterday."
This is a very true fact and I concur with Lionel's comment above that non-verbal communication plays a large part in effective communication, especially in this example. A person's mood can often be readily seen by his body language and to have effective communication, you should take cue from that non-verbal front to craft your intended message and to choose the correct channel of communication to fit that situation.
Overall, it was a very enjoyable read! Thank you for sharing!
Jonathan Ng
hey,
ReplyDeletesometimes i'm surprised that your brilliant idea about something. In addition, i think your speaking is getting much better than before.
As you mentioned in your article, we need to improve our communication skill to certain level. cause good communication skill is needed by various situations. That's why we are here and struggling with english la!
anyway, cheer up both of us!!
It seems to me that you have wonderful buddies in your blogging group, willing to help you out with polishing up your English. Nice opportunity to learn and grow and form lasting friendships, don't you say? If you need more help, please don't hesitate to come to me as well. The way I see it, effective communication is not just the ability to speak or write perfect English, it's a certain sensitivity to people that feeds back into the way we interact with them and that I notice you already have!
ReplyDeleteWonderful post that you have here. Some of the things that you have mentioned are things that have crossed my mind before. However, there are times when we are unable to react to things that happen suddenly.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, we could be too preoccupied with our own thoughts and assumptions that we tend to overlook things such as other people's body language. Like you have said, you could be doing the exact same thing to your friend for days, but there would be times when your friend would take it seriously. No one wants such misunderstandings so we would need to learn to be more sensitive to our surroundings even when we are preoccupied with our own things.