By definition, communication is to impart or exchange thoughts, opinions, or information among people via verbal or non-verbal platforms. Therefore, effective communication will be the accurate transmission of the original message from the sender to the receiver. Today, communication is inevitable in all social settings. For instance, chatting with your family members at home, discussing projects with your schoolmates in school, holding a meeting with your colleagues at work or even asking strangers for directions require good communication skills. For this reason, effective communication can bring people together but miscommunication keeps people apart. Hence, it is crucial to understand that bidirectional listening and speech organisation is necessary for smooth delivery of message.
Listening
plays an important role in the communication.
From the cartoon above, the idle
bird (receiver) failed to focus
when the hippopotamus (sender)
was speaking and conveyed the wrong message to the zebra. This cartoon
demonstrated that listening is essential for the right message to propagate.
Likewise in real-life context, one who listens attentively to the speaker is
more likely convey an accurate message. Conversely, one who fails to listen is
more likely to convey the incomplete or wrong message. Therefore, in the
real-life situation, one should always listen before speaking to avoid
unnecessary problems caused by
the inaccurately perceived message.
Speech
organisation allows clearer articulation and facilitates better understanding
of the message. Personally, I have always found presentations to be intimidating and I tend to let
my nerves get the best of me. Through experience, an organised speech will
help people to understand and to bring the message across effectively. There upon, I believe that speech
organisation can aid the presenter in
giving a comprehensible presentation.
In conclusion, I believe that
communication is not as simple as it seems, it is something which could not be
taught by lectures but to be learnt through
experience. Like academic presentations, daily communication requires both attentive
listening and thoughts organisation to facilitate fast and precise communication.
Hence, everyone should learn how to listen and to speak for communicate effectively.
