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Today's workplace is constantly changing, so learning more about effective communication helps us all adapt to our changing environments. So, The most successful organizations understand that if they are to be successful in today's business world, good communication at all levels is essential.
Communication is the heart of every organization. Everything you do in the workplace results from communication. Therefore good reading, writing, speaking and listening skills are essential if tasks are going to be completed and goals achieved. As you develop your career you will find various reasons why successful communication skills are important to you, for example:
First: To secure an interview.You will need good communication skills to make sure your application letter is read and acted upon.
Second: To get the job.You will need to communicate well during your interview if you are to sell yourself and get the job you want.
Third: To do your job well.You will need to request information, discuss problems, give instructions, work in teams, interact with colleagues and clients. If you are to achieve co-operation and effective teamwork, good human relations skills are essential. Also, as the workplace is also becoming more global, there are many factors to consider if you are to communicate well in such a diverse environment.
Fourth: To advance in your career.Employers want staff who can think for themselves, use initiative and solve problems, staff who are interested in the long-term success of the company. If you are to be seen as a valued member of the organization, it is important not just to be able to do your job well, but also to communicate your thoughts on how the processes and products or services can be improved.
On sum, The benefits from effective communication are:
1. Stronger decision-making and problem-solving
2. Upturn in productivity
3. Convincing and compelling corporate materials
4. Clearer, more streamlined workflow
5. Enhanced professional image
6. Sound business relationships
7. Successful response ensured
Communication is important in all spheres of life. You need to communicate for:
1. To assess business environment through research/ survey.
2. To prepare a business proposal(written communication)
3. To arrange financing, you need to communicate with shareholders/bankers
4. To make an effective production plan, you need to communicate with workers/ supervisors
5. To make a marketing plan (for market survey, promotion campaign)
6. To make a sale forecast (need to talk with whole sellers/retailers/agent)
7. Finally, to be social, you need to communicate with your friends and family
And so on …….
So, communication is vital for business survival as well as your personal survival
simply because this way to deliver message and transfer info. between us
Communication is the only way to determine what you want to do through the others by clear message you send to them what ever the type of this message written or through phone or even through your reaction and in my opinion you should verify that the receiver got the message that you want to send to him.
to better understand without any ambiguity what we are listening, speaking, conveying through any means. thanks.
“ Communication is an art that never ends. So it is most important”
In fact, can you imagine anything without any sort of Communication. No way.
In this article I’m going to comprehend about the topic ‘The Origin of Communication then its importance” Let’s 1st have a look about the background of word ‘communication’. The word ‘Communication’ is derived from a Latin word ‘Communicare’ means make common, share, participate and import. Communication is a way to transfer meaningful information from one party to another. The unit of success can be measured when the meaning got understood. It is the basic of all interactions. Communication can be defined as:
“The interchange of thoughts and opinions by shared symbols, e.g. language, words, phrases or by body language.”
OR
“The art or technique of using words in an effective way to import information, ideas or feelings by your local language.”
Communication process include Encoding à Transmitting à and Decoding of entire message.
The Karen Friedman’s a professional communicator a 37 year Professional TV news reporter layout some of the core rules about how to communicate effectively at workplace in her book Shut up & Say Something. There are some rules that I have captured from her book, that i’ll going to elaborate in my own so you can get benefited from it.
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson is a student of communication. In a blog post listing his favorite quotes on the subject, Branson calls communication “an art.” He’s right. We can use science to study why certain techniques are more effective than others, but ultimately communication is more art than science and, like mastering any art, it takes practice to sharpen the craft.
Quoting business author Brian Tracy, Branson writes, “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”
Communication levels the playing field. Every week I receive emails and comments from our readers who have found uncommon success almost immediately upon improving their communication skills. Among them:
· A recent college graduate who landed a dream job on his third interview after he rehearsed the company’s pitch for eight hours. The company’s sales manager asked to record his pitch to show the rest of the sales team how to sell their product.
· A mid-level manager who is rapidly ascending the ranks of his Fortune 500 technology firm because he’s considered one of the company’s best presenters.
· The marketing manager of a large construction company who re-tooled the company’s PowerPoint presentation and landed an $875 million contract.
· Each of these people have very different communication styles. There’s no template that can be easily replicated from one person to another. And that’s why communication is more “art” than science. Mastering an art requires skill and skill is only developed through practice, regardless of the field. I play golf and, as any golfer knows, if you don’t practice in between rounds you have no chance of getting better. Golf is a very difficult sport, but it gets easier and more enjoyable when you know how to do it. It’s the same with communication and presentation skills. Very few people enjoy giving a presentation. They’re anxious about it, spend sleepless nights for days or weeks ahead of the event, and, in many cases, experience full-blown stage fright.
· About six years ago Tesla CEO Elon Musk was interviewed on stage for Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club. “I’m not a naturally extroverted person. I used to be horrendous at public speaking, and sort of shake and be unable to speak. I’ve learned not to do that,” he admitted.
· In my experience with senior leaders, I’ve found that very few people like delivering presentations or speaking in front of groups—at first. But after enough practice, they get better at it. In many cases, they learn to enjoy it.
· Great performers understand that communication is an art and takes practice to refine. When Jay Leno was hosting The Tonight Show, he would leave the taping on Friday and head to Las Vegas or another city for a series of standup shows. Leno would do 100 to 150 acts a year even when he had a full-time job because he had to stay sharp. When is the last time you practiced any presentation 150 times, or even 20 times? Speaking of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon rehearses his monologue in front of a live audience earlier in the day. He has a pen and paper in hand and makes notes of what gets a laugh and what doesn’t. These comedians do not rely on a scientific algorithm to develop their jokes.
· Although I’m a big believer in studying the science of persuasion, there’s no question that communication—like Branson suggests—is more of an art. Mastering any art requires time, dedication, and practice. Master the art of communication, however, and a new world opens where you can influence people, sell products, and inspire others more successfully than you’ve ever imagined.
Communication is utmost important as it is a growing Art.
Cominication skills helps people to understand each other. No matter where you use it at work or with your kids or any other people
We live in an interconnected world, hence anything can impact our objectives.
Long gone are the days when a specific type of work or business would succeed in a siloed environment.
Hence, at the minimal, to ensure that our goals are not impacted, we need to be receptive to know the developments in other regions or even other departments.
In the same lines, it becomes important to keep the communication on so that we keep everyone updated on our objectives to other departments.
Communication in itself is a language. There is a communication even in silence.
Communication was always important during all ages, not just in 20th century.
Whatever you do, you need communication
When I was in high school, a man came to speak about Winston Churchill. Mostly, it was the usual mix of historical events and anecdotes, which in Churchill’s case was a potent mixture of the poignant, the irreverent and the hilarious. But what I remember best was how the talk ended.
The speaker concluded by saying that if we were to remember one thing about Churchill it should be that what made him so effective was his power to communicate. I didn’t understand that at the time. Growing up I had always heard about the importance of hard work, honesty and other things, but never communication.
Yet now, thirty years later, I’ve begun to understand what he meant. As Walter Isaacson argues in his book The Innovators, even in technology—maybe especially in technology—the ability to collaborate effectively is decisive. In order to innovate, it’s not enough to just come up with big ideas, you also need to work hard to communicate them clearly.
The Father Of The Electronic Age
Today, we take electricity for granted. We switch on lights, watch TV and enjoy connected devices without a second thought. It’s hard to imagine an earlier age in which we had to use smoky, smelly candles in order to see at night and didn’t have the benefit and convenience of basic household appliances.
Michael Faraday, probably more than anyone else, transformed electricity from an interesting curiosity into the workhorse of the modern age. Not only did he uncover many of its basic principles, such as its relationship to magnetism, but also invented crucial technologies, like the dynamo that generates electricity and the motor which turns it into meaningful work.
Yet Faraday was more than just a talented scientist. He was also a very effective communicator. As Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon write in their book, Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, “His scientific genius lay not simply in producing experimental results that had eluded everyone else but in explaining them too.”
This wasn’t a natural talent, he worked hard at it, taking copious notes on his own lectures and those of others. The effort paid off. His regular lectures at the Royal Institution made him, and the Institution itself, a fixture in the scientific world. The special Christmas lectures for children, which he instituted, continue to this day and draw a large television audience.
The Magician Who Shared His Tricks
A more recent genius was Richard Feynman. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in, but also made important discoveries in biology and was an early pioneer of parallel and quantum computing. His talent, in fact, was so prodigious that even other elite scientists considered him to be a magician.
Yet like Faraday, Feynman was not content to hide his tricks behind smoke and mirrors. He insisted on teaching an introductory class for undergraduates—exceedingly rare for top calibre academics—that was standing room only. With his Brooklyn accent, wry sense of humor and talent for explaining things in practical, everyday terms, he was a student favorite.
Perhaps the best example of how Feynman combined brilliance with exceptional communication skills was a talk he gave a few days after Christmas in. Starting from a basic question about what it would take to shrink the Encyclopedia Britannica to fit on the head of a pin, he moved step by step until, in less than an hour, he had invented the field of nanotechnology.
Schopenhauer once said that, “talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” What made Feynman so special was that he wanted us to see it too.
“THESE ADS SUCK”
We often treat communication as if it were a discrete act, a matter of performance or lack thereof. Yet meaning cannot be separated from context. A crucial, but often overlooked, function of leadership is creating a culture in which effective communication can flourish.
In early, Larry Page walked into the the kitchen and posted a few pages of search results and wrote in big, bold letters, “THESE ADS SUCK.” In many organizations, this act would be considered a harsh taking down of an incompetent product manager.
But not at Google. It was seen as a call to action and within hours a team of search engineers posted a solution. As it turned out, it was they, not the ads team, that had the requisite skills and perspectives to fix the problem. In many ways, it was that episode that made Google the profit machine it is today.
Yet Page’s action was vastly greater than a single act. He and Sergey Brin spent years creating a culture that favored change over the status quo. When he posted the subpar search results, everybody knew why. He wasn’t looking to attack—no one was fired or disciplined—but inspire.
Communication is bidirectional, requiring both a transmitter and a receiver. Both need to effectively engineered.
The Myth Of A Private Language
We tend to treat knowledge and communication as two separate spheres. We act as expertise was a private matter, attained through quiet study of the lexicon in a particular field. Communication, on the other hand, is often relegated to the realm of the social, a tool we use to interact with others of our species.
Yet, as Wittgenstein argued decades ago, that position is logically untenable because it assumes that we are able to communicate to ourselves in a private language. In truth, we can’t really know anything that we can’t communicate. To assert that we can possess knowledge, but are unable to designate what it is, is nonsensical.
And so it is curious that we give communication such short shrift. Schools don’t teach communication. They teach math, (not very well), some science, history and give rote instructions about rigid grammatical rules, but give very little guidance on how to express ideas clearly.
When we enter professional life, we immerse ourselves in the jargon and principles of our chosen field and obediently follow precepts laid out by our respective priesthoods. Yet we rarely put serious effort toward expressing ourselves in a language that can be understood by those outside our tribe. Then we wonder why our efforts and achievements fail to resonate.
It has become fashionable to say that our present epoch is an information age, but that’s not quite right. In truth, we live in a communication age and it’s time we start taking it seriously.
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