Importance of Effective Communication Skills in Academics and Professional Careers

This article explores the importance of effective communication skills in both academic and professional careers. It discusses the different types of communication skills and their application in various contexts. The article also highlights the impact of communication skills on personal and professional growth.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY .....................................................................................................................4
FUTURE REFLECTION.....................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Communication skills are the ability to transfer and receive different kinds of
information to people effectively. It depends on many communication aspects, like;
Vocally, Written, Audio and Videos calls, e-mails etc. These are very useful to improve
our personality & talking standard. Communication skills are needed to speak in a good
manner, maintain good eye contact and deliver your dialogue in a smooth voice ( e.g.
Not too much high and Not too much low). Communication skills are very necessary for
our good impression on other people. These are help us to maintain our standard. It
very important to Businesses, Companies, Academics and Profession etc.
MAIN BODY
There are various types of Communication Skills which can helps to both
Academics and Professional contexts to achieve their respective goals. Effective
communication skills are necessary in the both terms Academics and Professional,
because in both terms there are transformation of ideology or information are
completely existing. So, both needs to choose the perfect ways of communication. For
effective communication skills, both needs to choose some effective terms of
communication;
1. Verbal Communication : Basically this term of communication includes
'Talking', in which we need to show our good talking ability.
(a) Speak smoothly and clearly : When we talk to someone, we need to speak our
words in a good manner, like; not much lauder and not much lower (Arnold and Boggs,
2019). Focus on sounding smooth and clear so that the person you're talking to can
understand you easily.
(b) Listening : Communication has always two aspects, you and other party. It depends
on how you take the others message and how much you understand that.
(c) Questioning : During communication we need to ask questions to other party for
show our interest in conversation.
(d) Stay Relaxed : Our body language also says a lot. So we need to maintain our body
cool and relaxed.
(e) Smily Face : During communication smily face also impacting positively to other
party.

2. Non-Verbal Communication : This term of communication plays bigger role
than Verbal Communication. Speaking abilities are not only enough to
conversation. We need to use Non-Verbal Communication also during
conversation. There are some types of Non-Verbal communication;
(a) Eye Contact : This is the major tool to show our interest in the conversation
(DeBenedectis and et.al., 2017). If we maintain our eye contact to other party during
conversation that will impact them very positively.
(b) Sitting : During conversation our sitting positions are also impacting other party. So
we need to maintain effective sitting.
(c) Facial Expressions : Facial expressions also play very great role during conversation
(Berman and Chutka, 2016). So we need to maintain impressive facial expression
during conversation etc.
3. Written Communication : Written is another from of communication just like
other terms of communication. Written communication like; Simple email or
important report etc. We need to write our message carefully and try to avoid
some mistakes like; grammatical errors, Sentence errors etc (Baghban Vahidi
and et.al., 2017). Written communication must be clear and concise to properly
convey the message, because it necessary to put our good impression on other
party.
FUTURE REFLECTION
I was working in an organization where I required to communicate with my fellow
employees and with the management in which my communication skills played an
important role. With the help of my communication skills I was easily able to impress
anyone in just a small conversation. My upper level management also appreciate me for
my communication skills. But on that time I am not completely good at my
communication skills, because many times I was getting nervous during talking with my
upper level bosses and management. That was big challenge for me to talk with them in
confident manner. There are some communication weaknesses that I was also faced at
my workplace, like; when I was talk someone that time I am poor in listening
communication skills because I was not completely listen other party and suddenly I
was start speaking. My other communication weakness is my sitting manner during

conversation, I was not seat properly while conversation and that was impacting my
other party negatively. On the other side I also had some good communication skills
like; Asking questions during communication for showing my interest in the
conversation, I was also given my good facial expressions and try to maintain eye
contact with other party. That was positive side of my communication skills. That
experience teach me many new things. On the basis of that experience I was
understood one thing, and that thing is; if you have good and effective communication
skills then you will impress anyone with a small conversation. In the future I will try to
implement all the effective communication skills in my regular life. I know It is tough to
implement all of them but I will try hardly. It is necessary for all area like; Businesses,
Academics, Professional life etc. On that time when I was employee, with the help of my
some good communication skills, my colleagues always want to talk to me for the
discussion about organization, marketing strategies and also some other things. I was
also good at writing communication. This is my speciality to write something in a very
good and effective manner, and I was also perfect at avoiding grammatical mistakes
during written communication. That time I was known the power written communication
skills. Many times my upper level management told me to send emails to other party in
my writing. That was great complement for me on that organization.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that effective communication skills play important role in both
Academic and Professional careers. If we follow these skills, we can easily put our
positive impact on the people. They listen us carefully and easily understand what we
try to say. We listen them carefully, this is also a part of effective communication skills.
Both parties plays equal role the communication. We need to implement all aspects of
effective communication skills in our daily life, then we can easily able to show our
literacy. Effective communication skills always plays great role at any place.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Arnold, E. C. and Boggs, K. U., 2019. Interpersonal Relationships E-Book: Professional
Communication Skills for Nurses. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Baghban Vahidi, M and et.al., 2017. The Impact of Training Mothers of Autistic Children
for Effective Communication Skills on Social Skills Improvement in Autistic
Children. Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies. 7.pp.44-44.
Berman, A. C. and Chutka, D. S., 2016. Assessing effective physician-patient
communication skills:“Are you listening to me, doc?”. Korean journal of medical
education. 28(2). p.243.
DeBenedectis, C. M and et.al., 2017. Coming out of the dark: a curriculum for teaching
and evaluating radiology residents’ communication skills through
simulation. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 14(1). pp.87-91.