The power of communication needs no description. A child’s first cry of communication at birth evolves and passes different stages which finally lead into speaking at the age of two. As humans we make great efforts to learn to speak well. We work on our fluency, modulation, tone, expression, pronunciations and learn to communicate really well.
Communication makes a person better in the expression and thought process. We learn how to express our thoughts properly, how to express opinions on everything without hurting anyone, how to voice our imaginations and how to express our feelings in relationships. For our professional bit, we learn to give interviews, handle meetings, address gatherings, resolve issues and continue meeting new people in life.
Career advances only by proper communication:
For the students, communication is their only weapon with which they can portray what they mean. Right from conversations to making friends, to answering questions in school, to responding to the mentors and teachers, to executing different projects and its explanations, extempore and debate competitions, extracurricular activities, learning additional skills to perform better in exams, reciting and holding speeches at public places, making an effort to appear for an interview and presenting self, taking up the best course suitable to their caliber of argumentation skills like law and consultancies. It’s a sea change effect for a student who has worked on his communication skills.
Communication enables us to understand its three basic characteristics:
- What to say?
- When to say?
- How to say?
A person who concentrates on the above can become a very good communicator.
Fissures in flow of communication:
If a person knows what to say but fails to present the way it is acceptable or if a person knows how something should be communicated but does not use appropriate words or a person who knows both has no sense of timing; in all these situations it’s a poor communication.
Many people say they already have communicated; but if the other person has not understood it’s not their problem. But to be very precise, communication is right when the other person understands what is communicated. Unless the other person has understood, your communication is not right.
A third person in communication line:
Also, we often see people communicate to someone and assume that it will be communicated to the third person. There are two issues in this situation one is that the communication is open to added tones and biases and second that the delivery can’t be guaranteed unless confirmed. A best delivered communication is when it is done to the right person and that too in person directly; but if it is going through a middle person, it’s the duty of the communicator to instruct very clearly and ensure the communication by cross check.
Actually speaking eighty percent of the communication in this world is ambiguous and that’s the reason there is so much confusion for small things some times.
Some simple suggestions that make it easy for you to apply:
- Think what you want to say before saying it
- Decide the appropriate timing
- Ensure your tone, body language and presentation
- Do preferably to the right person instead of through another person
- Ensure the other person has understood what you are saying
- Most importantly say what you mean and mean what you say
If you make a sound improvement in your communication skills your expression will not be dependent on others. You will always be confident that you delivered what you wanted to. Of course, there would be certain situations which may still make you feel, that you need an improvement; but at least your basic communication skills will happen effortless. You can then concentrate on the advance communication skills for handling big meetings, handling a group of people at the time of interviews, handling your decisions in a big family, handling this competitive world outside waiting for you to perform your best.
Communication as a tool to our expression in all its ways defines how to handle our presence in all kinds of situations and the way we need to behave and speak at all places. The investment of time to communicate well is the best investment because speech makes us aware of our existence so much that we actually enjoy every bit of it in our lives. The best gift of God to human beings is the ability to express through communication and express every emotion that we feel.
So-
“Use your communication skills and excel in
whatever you want to achieve in life in totality through it”