Importance of Effective Communication Skills in Higher Education

Importance of Effective
Communication Skills

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Communication skill and its importance in higher education................................................3
Ways for collaborating for development effective communication.......................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Communication skill is the ability to convey message to other individuals. Here, a individual
share their ideas, thoughts and feelings to other individual so that they will understand the
message clearly and respond it (Suratno, Tonra and Ardiana, 2019). Gaining communication
skill is most important for an individual to develop their personal and professional life. When an
individual is having effective communication skill then they are able to influence others and
understand what others perceive regarding their message. It is essential to communicate more
with others and observe their way of conveying their message so that observer can grab the
opportunity to learn from their experience. The following file covers ways in which collaborating
with peers during this module has helped to develop effective communication skills.
Main Body
Communication skill and its importance in higher education
Communication skill is ability to share words and thoughts between two or more person.
It is an two way process where a sender send message whatever he want to convey and receiver
will receive the message and provide feedback to sender that whether they understand the
message or not. There are few communication skills which must be presented within an
individual to become effective communicator and these skills are mentioned below-
 Listening skill- It is essential that a individual must listen what their opponent person is
saying and then respond and share only those facts and figures which is totally related to
the topic shared by an individual.
 Non- verbal communication- These are those body gestures which a individual share
without speaking any word from their mouth. For example, when a individual shake their
head in vertical way then it means he is saying 'yes' and when the same individual share
his head in horizontal way then it means they are conveying 'No' in respond (Yang,
2018). Therefore, as a student, it is essential to understand the non-verbal communication
ways of the colleague. Having proper eye contact with audience, tone of voice should by
arranged according to content like using high tone will help to grab the attention of
audience to a particular statement or topic.