After the ES2007S lesson on last Thursday, I realized that effective communication skills are really important in our daily life such as in the context of building relationships and maintain quality relationships with your family members, friends, employers, employees and others. Without effective communication skills, we can hardly convey the messages that we wish to deliver across to the targeted audience. Also, we might encounter misunderstanding and confusion without effective communication.
If you ever thought that communication is an easy task by just speaking out what you want to say, then you would be wrong. Communication is not only comprised of verbal communication but also non-verbal components which are the body language, gestures, eyes contact and others. It is not as simple as you think it is. For example, during a conversation, the effectiveness of message to be received by the listener also takes into account the tone of the speaker deliver the message, the emotions of the speaker, the feedback from the listener and etc.
In my opinion, to master communication skills, it requires life-long learning and experience in interacting with the people. From there, you can put your communication skills in practical and at the same time do refinement to it if you found that the skills can be further improved to communicate with people. Besides, it is always good that you think before saying something and being thoughtful when you communicate with people in order to achieve a more effective communication so that it would not hurt people’s feeling and deteriorate the relationship.
In a conclusion, to achieve effective communication, it’s good that we always think critically and rationally before we speak. In addition to it, we must not be afraid to make mistake, must not be afraid to speak out and be open-minded to accept the weaknesses and mistakes that made. Later on, make improvement from the mistakes and weaknesses.
