Why effective communication is important for me.
Effective communication is mainly about delivering oral and written messages through to others in various social settings like home, workplace and so on. As a year 3 collge student holding a foreigner pass, I will explain the importance of effective communication on several levels.
Firstly as a person living in a multi-cultral society, I ought to be an effective communicator so as to have meaningful and pleasant conversations with people. These days relationships are largely built on conversations, whether it be faca-to-face or not, and therefore an effective communicator can get things done. Imagining I’m in a meeting with a Musilim client and start talking about how I enjoy eating pork and engaging in pre-marital sex,totally disregarding his cultual beliefs and tatoos, you’ll get the picture. Surely effective communication goes way beyond just attending to others’ cultural beliefs, but that’s just how crucial it is.
Secondly written forms like resumes, application letters are of utter importance to me, since I need to soon be ready to apply for interships. A good resume gives an employer a That-is-the-man-I-need kind of impression. It tells about my level of intelligence, various skills and character, and so it has to be cautiously tailored to be fit for me as analogous to making a right suit for an important party. Hence in order to be a catch in the job market, I better equip myself with these necessary communication skills.
Thirdly as a future engineer, my job description requires me to write sound articles like project proposals, research papers and so on, which falls under the category of written communication. I believe any career oriented person, me included, wouldn’t wish to let great ideas go down the drain just because of wrong choice of words or crappy grammer.
So to sum up, effective communication is a what a man needs if he wishes to succeed in life.
communication can help us change from student to engineers~ XDDDD
ReplyDeleteYour post is very organised and gets straight to the point. It makes it very easy to read. Your examples and points are very much real-life situations, and I think it is good to be realistic about your goals.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your summary. I think it is very true that you can't do much in life without proper communication skills.
I have one suggestion. In your example regarding the communication with a Muslim, I think it is better to explicitly say what you mean rather than assume the reader knows what you mean (even though it may be very obvious). There are also some spelling errors which you might want to correct.
Thanks, Allen, for this well thought-out post. I can see how carefully you have considered the question, on “why effective communication skills are important for you”, before organising your thoughts clearly in a concise post. Thanks for the effort!
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned the importance of communicating effectively in a multi-cultural society and I cannot agree with you more. Certainly we've got to tread carefully and cautiously when communicating with people from different cultural backgrounds. The examples you shared clearly illustrated the above. You might like to consider Izen’s suggestion, as readers who are not familiar with the taboos in Islam may not fully comprehend the message you wanted to send. The statement, “effective communication goes way beyond just attending to others’ cultural beliefs”, if written more concretely would also have given your readers a clearer picture of the importance of intercultural communication.
Now that we are on this topic, what do you think about changing the language of your profile description? Would that allow more readers to have a better understanding of you?
It will be good to proofread your post before uploading - readers have hawk-eyes and typo error is one area that can certainly be worked on.
In any case, thanks for the good effort, Allen.
Hey ya, sorry for the late reply, had posted on your wall before but it seems there was some error in publication =S
ReplyDeleteAnyway, just to say I really agree with you on the part of writing resumes and application letters; partly the reason I also signed up for this module.
And yea, the usefulness of effective communication doesn't just stop at job searches. It really is a life skill so to speak as it will be important for building relationships and also especially for engineers like us; where we have to write proposals or papers to secure grants or to win a contract through effectively bringing our ideas across.