Developing Effective Communication Skills for Academic and Professional Success

Preparing for Success
At University
Knowledge and
Creativity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Skills are crucial part of every individual that forms part of effective learning in the
process of increasing the opportunities in different areas. Learning of new skills leads to
broadening of opportunities to enhance the process of networking, communication and time
management process (Banditvilai, , 2016). Present report is based on the reflection of essay of
effective communication skill both in context of academic and professional scenario. Further
there is reflection of the individual performance level, experience and behaviour. For the the
future challenges and expectation are discussed with reference to education and employment
prospectives.
MAIN BODY
Effective communication skills are very crucial for the success of a individual in many
different aspects of life. In the academic life I have learnt different aspects of life that is going to
assist in the major four improvement areas. It had assisted me in getting insights of the different
skills that are assisting in development of key areas. Such as I have learnt the ability to listen to
others that is also a way of listening has helped in the process of effective communication. Next
ability is the development of techniques of non verbal communication that is to understand the
aspects of body language. I have been able to acquire the skills related of body movement, eye
contact, facial expressions, voice modulations all this can assist in paying close attention to the
minute details of non verbal communication (Akgunduz and Akinoglu, 2016). During my
lectures this skill lead to a more better understand in class that lade to clearing of doubts and
lowering down of overall burden while preparation of assignments.
Another skill was related to emotional awareness that I developed through the process of
development of social and personal skills. The personal skill that is acquired includes self
regulation, self awareness and high motivation. And the social skill set consist of empathy that is
staffing of service orientation, political awareness and the skill of leveraging & valuing diversity.
These skills are also very crucial from the point of understand of the value of diversity in the
context of organisations. My questioning skills also enhanced as I have been able to obtain the
information by broadcasting of my own opinions and effective questioning skills that is part of
development of communication skills.
While my individual performance is increased as I have been able to successfully
overcome all the barriers of effective communication such as judging of other individual, use of