Sunday, January 25, 2009

Effective Communication Skills

Firstly, with effective communication skills I am more confident with myself. I am able to deal with many problems. For example, if I were lost in a street, I am not shy to ask for directions. Apart from that, with the confidence that I have in my communication skills, I am not afraid to do interviews for jobs. I know how to convey my messages clearly and how to attract the interviewers’ attention. There would not be any misunderstandings if effective communication skills are developed.

In my daily life, sometimes I need to communicate with people of different age groups namely children, teenagers, adults and elderly. Each of these different age groups requires a different way of communication. For example, simple words are needed to be used when I am talking to young children. On the other hand, communicating with a teenager is a totally different story. They tend to use slang in most of their conversations or abbreviations in text messages. Therefore, to communicate with them, it is important for me to understand their “language” in order for an effective communication to take place. However, I definitely can not use the way we talk to teenagers with the elderly. Therefore, developing communication skills is important to me as I can learn how to communicate with everyone despite the age groups difference.