why is
effective communication important?
We are living in the world where no
one is able to survive without interactions with others. From the most simple
to the most complicated job of a national president, communication plays such a
vital role.
In Chinese, to converse is “通话”, which literally means throughout(通) communication(话). Hence,effective communicating has proved itself to be emphasized since
ancient time.
Thousands of years later, in this
modern time, communication is not only on face-to-face basis but also has been
introduced to new channels due to influence of technology .Now we can easily be
in touch with someone who is thousands of kilometers away from us through text,
email, facebook and skype. We are actually spoilt for choices. Surprisingly
enough, although communication channel reaches its acme, communication breakdown
occurs more commonly than ever. For example, statistics shows that in the past
decade, divorce rate in the world has increased dramatically. How could this be
possible?While there are variety of factors that have contributed to this, effective communication
certainly has a major impact on identifying and resolving these social issues.
In this course, we analyze different
types of communication,namely interpersonal communication, writing(for internet
communication), position communication( for employment purpose) and oral
communication.
While being effective in all the
above-mentioned communication models would be ideal, I personally think that
interpersonal communication is the most important because it requires both
external skills (like asking questions, observations etc) and constant
reflection on the internal belief system. Honestly,I am terrible at internet
communication, It sometimes takes a week for me to reply an email because of my
procrastination habit; I was just not born to provide an answer to certain
issues right away, especially if the communication model is not on face-to-face basis. Strictly speaking, I guess this
behaviour pattern has been existing partly because of my ignorance to others'feelings and most probably also due to my
superior mind: subconciousy ,I want to be perfect in replying that single email/message.
As a result ,being obsessed to be good actually hinders me from expressing my thoughts
freely and spontaneously to others. In any case, this certainly has something
to do with my family up-bringing and personal preconceptions which I believe
could be changed by adopting new interpersonal communication skills in this course….Well, I am
here to learn and am looking forward to seeing how I can utilize new
interpersonal skills to break this persistent habit!!
Thank you guys for reading and have a nice weekend !!:)
