Discussions in COMM11003 week 1, Term 1, 2015
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It is believed that people cannot live without communicating
because "communication can be defined as the
process of understanding and sharing meaning” according to Pearson J and Nelson.
Therefore, everyone all knows how to speak to each other, how to share information
but to be a good communicator is not easy at all.
Effective communication is the key to success in
relationships, in the workplace and across your lifetime. It is also an
important element of success for every organizations, leaders, managers,
supervisors, and employees. An organization
whose people communicate effectively experience fewer of misunderstandings that
creates friction between people, wastes time, and causes mistakes. Effective communication
can be also an advantage for your career. Good communication skills not only give people an edge in getting the jobs they
want but also help them move up the ladder to better paid positions or successful
job they have. Moreover, daily issues and problems can be solved readily with
the one who communicates well. Dwyer (2009, p. 72) argues the importance of
personal and social competence because those people ‘who are personally and
socially competent build positive, constructive relationships’
In this today’s professional world, there are a lot of effective
communicators who are successful with their field. For instances, many
professors or presenters in Ted Talks are effective communicators because they
know how to inspire their motivation, transmit their knowledge and people get
easy to listen and understand what they want to say.
Figure1 : Baratunde Thurston speaks as a
well communicator in Ted talks.
Source
: May, Kate Torgovnick 2015, Behind-the-scenes
gallery: TED2015 comes to a close
So what do the reasons make they become such a good communicator
like that?
Indefinitely, they get a special skills when dealing with
written and oral presentations. They know how to organize their sayings, their
words and they have the awareness of the audience. . For Eunson (2012, p. 456),
interpersonal skills include ‘assertiveness, listening, questioning, framing or
problem defining, and influencing skills’.
References:
Pearson, J., & Nelson, P. (2000). An introduction to human communication:
understanding and sharing (p. 6). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill
Dwyer, J 2009, Communication in business: strategies and
skills, 4th edn, Pearson Education, Frenchs Forest.
May, Kate Torgovnick 2015, behind-the-scenes gallery:
TED2015 comes to a close, viewed 9th
Eunson,
B 2012, Communicating in the 21st century,
John Wiley & Sons, Milton
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