Effective Communication Skills in Academic and Professional Contexts

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