Why effective communication is important for me.

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life."

  - Brian Tracy

Effective communication is essentially the fundamental to building better working relations with friends, family, colleagues and even with strangers. The ability to communicate effectively and efficiently, largely determines whether one is comprehensible to to others. At the same time, it would also allow the person to have the ability to understand others. Many a times, it is not only about the things being said, but also the things that aren't. In order to understand that, we must be able to communicate effectively.

In various ways, we depend on one another people to get things done. We may work alone, but ultimately that alone would not suffice. We may want to get a certain message across or put forth some ideas that we feel may be essential for the other parties to understand. Especially when in authority, we may want to give our counterparts certain instructions. Effective communication is ultimately the bridge that links the the delegation of tasks and the successful completion of it. If we are unable to speak, or send messages through other communication networks effectively, it will render the very purpose of that communication useless.

Personally, I feel that my communication skills needs alot of tuning-up . I have received feedback from many people that I speak too fast or I tend to be muffled. This is because I tend to not take the effort to articulate myself properly or pronounce words fully. At the same time, I am well aware of the fact that, at times,  I can be a bad listener. Many a times, I choose to hear what I want to or interrupt people in a haste to respond to what they were saying. I have definitely improved over the years, but I feel that there's definitely room for improvement.

We live in a world filled with ever-changing technological advancements. No longer do we need to write letters and mail them or send messengers to deliver messages. In an incredibly fast-paced world we live in, we both need to keep up with that pace and have the tenacity to adapt to changes. Communication is the crux of it all. We need to be able to be communicate effectively in order to survive as well as progress as an individual. If we are not up to it, we are going to fall back and remain stagnant.