Why effective communication skills is important for me

Effective communication skills are essential in our life. When you talk to your professor, when you communicate with your interviewer, when you talk to your colleagues, it will make your life easier. However, the skills not only include speaking, but also listening, reading and writing.

Talking about speaking, this week we have read about asking questions effectively, a bad question may ruined the conversation, this is very important when we are doing an interview or a talk with our professors.

Secondly, about listening skills, usually we thought we have heard all the things and knows everything, but actually we can only remember 25-50% of the contents we heard after less than 10 minutes.

Moreover, effectively reading is also important. It may not be essential when we make a conversation, but when we prepared for an interview, it is crucial. If we couldn’t effectively read all the materials, or we have understood wrongly about the material, we may ruin our opportunities.

Last but not least, writing skills. If we couldn’t write effectively, for example we couldn’t satisfy the 7C’s. There may produce a lot of misunderstandings in our reports or essays.

I have to say none of the four skills is perfect for me; some of them are even not good. For instance, sometimes for me, I can only remember 10% of the things I heard, even worse is that none of those is the key points. Moreover, as a graduating student, I’m going to the workplace in less than a year. Communicate effectively with others will make my life easier. Due to the reasons above, effective communication skills is important for me.