Effective Communication Skills in Academic and Professional Contexts

This report explores the significance of effective communication skills in both academic and professional contexts. It discusses the key skills, such as active listening, non-verbal interaction, friendliness, confidence, feedback, emotional intelligence, and clarity. The report also highlights the impact of communication skills on individual performance and behavior in education and employment.

Preparing for Success At
University: Knowledge and
Creativity

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Effective communication skills .......................................................................................................3
SWOT Analysis...............................................................................................................................5
Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour and experience in education or employees ...5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Report is going to present the information in regards to how effective
communication skills plays an essential role in both professional and academic context.
Along with this, assessment will also consider the reflection considering the individual
performance, experience, behaviour and so on in both the context which are education
and employment. In present time, communication skills plays an important role for an
individual in regards to both academic and professional contexts. With the help of
effective communication a person could effectively manage the team, manage
relationships and helps in hitting other targets at both personal and professional level.
Main Body
Effective communication skills
It is a way of sharing thoughts, ideas, information, knowledge in an effective and
appropriate manner. It is the presentation and demonstration of views or ideas by the
communicator to the receiver (Fulton, 2019). In addition to this, it is a two way process
between the sender and the receiver. Some of the effective communication skills are
described in detail below:
Active and proper listening: It means a listener should closely pay attention to
the speaker or totally putting his mind at that particular place. People with good
listeners are appreciated by the co-workers and with their bosses too. A person can be
a good listener when he did not distract by mobiles, messages, people comments and
so on. In context to professional and academic content, the leader message should be
actively listening by the subordinates so that no confusion can be created and every
employee knows their task properly (Iurina and Gorlova, 2018).
Non- verbal interaction: In present context, if it is talked about non- verbal
interactions then these are gestures, body language, words, tone of presenting the
message included in non- verbal communication. A message can be properly delivered
and understand by the receiver when it is presenting by proper eye contact, arm
postures, facial expressions etc. it is important for every communicator to involve its
audience in presentation so that message can be delivered to them in an effective

manner. With reference to professional context, the attire, gestures, body language, eye
contact of the managers should be effective so that employees get attracted and did not
get distracted by any other thing.
Friendliness: The message given by the sender should be in a positive attitude.
The receiver feels friendly with it and did not hesitate to ask question to the sender.
Gesture such as smiling, helping shows how good a communicator is and leads to
productive relationship among the sender and the receiver. In context to professional
and academic, the leader must be friendly with their employees so that they did not feel
shy in asking any question to them. This will make the sessions more interactive and
impressive (Kondrashov, 2018).
Confidence: People prefer to respond on those ideas and messages which are
presented or demonstrated with confidence. Several ways such as preparing before
time, eye contact, shoulder straight etc. shows how confident a person is in delivering
the message. With reference to professional context, managers or the employees
should prepare the presentation before time, make eye contact with the audiences,
stand straight so that confidence can be built and presentation can be understand by
everyone (Kondratenko, 2018).
Feedback : A good presentor is one who is giving and taking feedback from the
audience in order to improve its communication level. feedback provide solutions ,
answer the questions and increase the understanding of the particular topic and project.
In context to academic and professional, the supervisors or managers receive and give
feedback to the employees in order to make presentation effective. It includes feedback
through email,weekly updates or via messages. In addition to this, feedback also
influence and motivate employees to work towards the organisational goals.
Emotional intelligence: it is the ability and power to understand someone
emotions or capability to manage the emotions while delivering the message to the
audiences. It includes social awareness, self awareness, self management, relationship
management and so on. An organisation need to have EI so that they can understand
the emotions of their employees and reduce their stress by the passage of time
(Munden, 2018).

Clarity: An effective communication is one when the message is understand by
the audiences clearly and no confusion is created in the minds of the receiver. if the
message is not clear it will directly result to wrong decisions. In context to be
professional, the manager thoughts, ideas should be clear to each and every employee
so that they know what task they need to carry and what their roles are. The employees
can work in the right direction and achieve a good outcome which increases the
productivity of the organisation.
SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis can be considered as one of the effective approach, that directly
aid me in looking at my strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities as well.
Considering communications along with the research skills, it is required for me to
consider academic writing and this is where I am pretty much efficient and it can be said
as a strength of my own as a learner. Away with this, I am weak in rephrasing skill
which can be taken as my weakness, and this impacted negatively upon my own skills
and references. Including this, taking classes in regards to the organisation would
directly aid me in hitting targets of my own in near future.
Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour and experience in
education or employees
Effective communication skills could help me to improve my knowledge about
how to interact and present my ideas to the people effectively or appropriately. These
skills build confidence for me and I could feel comfortable while sharing my opinions to
others (Năstase, Florescu and Mircioi, 2018). With the help of this, I can easily say that
different messages I can easily to be delivered to the audience.
In present context, if it is talked about my own individual performance, then these
different skills could directly impact positively upon my overall performance level, while
taking lectures at the colleges (Yessimov and et. al., 2018). I can effectively take an
good example where, non- verbal interactions, emotional intelligence, feedbacks and
clarity are said to be some of the key skills, which would help me as a student in
enhancing the knowledge in a shorter span, where I could effectively communicate with
lecturers, which may aid me in resolving the issues in a much more efficient manner.

Away with this, if it is talked about me as an employee then I will consider
number of skills and these are : Active and proper listening, Non- verbal interaction,
Friendliness, Confidence and more are the skills, that would help me as an employee in
communicating with the employer in an appropriate manner. Through this, all the
conflicts at workstation can easily be performed by me in right manner. All these would
aid the me in hitting and maintaining the benefits for my own in specified time frame.
Conclusion
With the help of above mentioned report, it can easily be said that with effective
communication skills an individual could sustain within the company for a longer period
of time and it would help in becoming successful within person life as well. On the other
hand, it is also said that if the communication skills are not that effective enough, this
may lead the company to go through number of issues.

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