Have you ever been to a lecture and not felt sleepy? Or a sermon in church and you actually listen intently to whatever the speaker is saying. It has always intrigued me at how these people actually do it. Where I have no interest in the subject or topic whatsoever, but they still managed to capture my attention and put their message across to me. I always find it amazing when someone has such an effect on me. It’s the complete opposite of someone who speaks and I got to try hard to fight off the “Z” monsters at the same time. This to me is an important aspect of effective communication. The message is understood by your target audience with little difficulty.
Furthermore, in this cut-throat society, it is important that you are able to present yourself in a clear, consistent and easily understood manner. I believe having good communication skills is an important asset in the working society. It’ll come in handy during interviews, presentations and meetings. Having good communication skills would almost certainly give you an edge over others.
Lastly, I believe it would help develop healthier relationships within friends and families. It would help reduce arguments and frustrations while at the same time increase the bond through better understanding of one another.
Therefore I do hope to be able to equip myself with at least some skills so that I’ll be able to understand people around me better while at same time, not let myself be misunderstood.
Dear Glenn,
ReplyDeleteI am going to make my first comment on the first blog I'm reading in our class. Firstly I wish to comment on your sense of organisation and structure. After having published my blog post and now reading yours, I feel that I have much to learn from you in terms of the way you organise your post.
250 words might not be very long or difficult to churn out, but yet when I was beginning to write my post I realised that the shorter the blog post is the harder it is to show that there's some structure to it! You've nicely organised your points into 3 parts - the essence of communication which lies in being easiy understood, then why it plays an important role in this society (macro), and finally on a personal level (micro) why good communication is beneficial in the family.
On top of that I felt that you have a strong introduction that successfully captured the reader's attention. Instead of the conventional way of starting any type of writing or speech, you started it off with an intriguing question which most people can relate to, because the circumstance you put forward is what everyone has been through before.
Two aspects I thought could have made this post an excellent one would be to justify the paragraphs neatly istead of pushing it to the left hand side. The other thing you could consider is adding a slightly more personal opinion to why effective communication is important. That is to say, why is it important especially to you.
Those were just my very personal opinions to share with you. Still, I think this piece of work is a reflection of the marvellous effort put in on your side. well done!
Great point about improving relationships within the family, Glenn.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that it would make a lasting impact if we remembered to express ourselves and over-communicate. We tend to feel misunderstood more often than not especially with people we know very well.
Hence, it was a rule at my work place to over-communicate. It didn't matter if we had to repeat something 10 times, as long as the issue was communicated and the necessary action was taken. A good rule for life, I think!
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI really like the way you started your post with a question. It engages the reader and encourages reflecting on behavior and attitude when attending a lecture or any other speech/presentation event.
I have attended several lectures and not feel sleepy. I’ve had lectures that start at 8am in the morning and I usually do not do well in these lectures i.e. I feel really sleepy and restless and I can never seem to pay attention in most of them. However, on several occasions, I find myself paying complete attention to the lecturer’s presentation to the class. It just amazes me at how these lecturers do it and how they work their ‘magic’ on us, the students, that engages us throughout the whole lecture. This makes me really want to know their secret in being such effective communicators!
I definitely agree with you on how effective communication could help develop healthier relationships between friends and family. A willingness to listen is also important in maintaining relationships with our loved ones.
One little correction I’d like to point out:
“… at the same time increase the bond….” to “.. at the same time strengthen the bond…”
Good job on this post! Looking forward to reading more of your posts!
-nicole
I realize the lecturers that manage to keep my attention are often those who can inject humor into their lessons. So if irrelevant jokes help to hold the students' attention but are not part of the message the lecturer is trying to convey, is this still effective communication?
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that you mentioned the importance of effective communication with friends and families. This is often overlooked as people tend to take these relationships for granted, especially close friends and family. All relationships require nurturing and constant communication is a integral part of this. Let us all keep this in mind!
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ReplyDeleteDear Glenn,
ReplyDeleteLike some of the other readers of your post, I like the way you start this with a question about scenarios that we might easily imagine. That strategy draws the reader in to your world.
Your ideas are also very concisely and fairly clearly presented. I do feel, however, that this post would be more connected to the assignment if you had made a bit more of a direct statement about your own skills needs.
There are also some language problems:
1) Have you ever been to a lecture and not feel sleepy? >>> Have you ever been to a lecture and not felt sleepy?
2) In that first paragraph there are also some sentence structure problems...
Thanks, man! I look forward to reading more of your posts!
Effective Communication plays a very important role in everyone's life and career especially. One can Convey with others in a very high and innovative manner. It helps each and every person to develop their self Confidence.
ReplyDeleteHi Alisa, i agree with you. High and innovative manner would be really fun! However if the people in the conversation are not of the same "wavelength", it might turn out to be quite difficult sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the comments everone.