Communication involves a certain amount of confidence in being challenged. That will only happen if you allow yourself to be exposed.
Why are effective communication skills important for you?
1/23/2011 03:40:00 AM
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Jeremy
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Communication, in my perspective, is a fundamental attribute that shares a symbiotic relationship with both cognitive and affect aspects of the human psyche. Essentially, communication affects, and in turn is affected, by the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, reasoning, as well as the emotional and volitional processes of the human mind.
The need for effective communication and discourse stems from the intent to establish a point. Such an empirical requirement presents itself in innumerate forms in my future career as an engineer. An engineer’s task is to effectively marry the applied disciplines of science with the practical constraints of economics, culture, and ethics; in order to deliver a sound product.
As engineers, the ability to understand technical jargon is both our strength and weakness. Often we find ourselves speaking in jargon only we understand. Yet the whole point of speaking as part of a team comprising engineers, architects, business personnel and accountants, is to share pieces of vital information. There is a need to demystify these pieces of jargon we, albeit with comfort, so arrogantly speak.
For me as an engineer, effective communication skills provide the avenue to which I can understand what the various levels of audience wish to know, to cater to everyone’s abilities; and ultimately deliver a message with conviction and intent in an effective, inoffensive, and compelling manner. This, I believe, is the bridging factor for an engineer to achieve the optimal balance between productivity, safety, and welfare for both the industry, and the society.
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