Importance of communication skills in our life

Importance of communication skills: Communication skills are important to living a happy and prosperous life. Effective communication includes honesty, trust, love, bonding, sharing, care, and friendship between various types of communities,  religions, and people.
Effective communication skills align all people in one direction that inspires development in society, culture, and economic activities. That’s why communication skills are important in life.

Let’s learn in detail:

1. Communication skills are the presentation of the character:

Communication skills are proof of what we’re as a human. It’s about how you behave and talk with people. It’s about how you’re influencing people around you.

For example, a professional communicator or a good person knows about the ways to communicate with different kinds of people in certain situations. They know how to talk with kids, parents, wives and family members, friends, and strangers. In all these cases, it’s about respect.

When you communicate humbly with all the people, it showcases how great you’re as a person. You don’t just communicate humbly for the sake of profits instead you do it because it’s your nature and character.

There are many people who communicate with each person differently, for example, they communicate humbly and respectfully with the rich but badly with the poor. It’s their character and nature. They only communicate humbly and respectfully with the people that matched their standards. And behind that there are reasons.

So respectful and humble communication is a communication skill that showcases the good/bad parts of the human character. And without good character, it’s tough to make an impact in the world and live a happy life. That’s why good communication skills are important to have in life that is based on admiration and respect for others.

2. Communication skills create and strengthen friendships:

A tongue can make thousands of friends and enemies at the same time. It’s about how and when you use it. For example in anger, we forget about the words and vocabulary. We don’t care about such a situation of rude behavior toward other people. We don’t care about father, mother, real friend, wife, kid, customer, or anyone in anger. And in anger, we use words that hurt people from inside.

That’s why anger, aggression, and rude communication are bad communication skills that can make more enemies than a friend or can convert an honest friend into an enemy. That’s why it’s important to remain calm in negative situations.

For example, you’re reading, writing, working, driving or anything you’re doing. Someone distracted you in a big way unintentionally such as by playing music loudly, traffic jams, the line at the ticket counter, high sugar in tea, etc.

Now the bad communicator becomes angry and vomited the words in frustration. And at the same time, the other person got angry too. No matter whether they know each other or not. But they will start fighting and debating and blaming each other for the cause. Within a few minutes, the debate can turn into a bigger fight.

Now, what is the cause of this fight?

The cause is a lack of patience. Patience in communication is the most important skill and it is not in half of the humans living on this planet. It looks like animals have dressed in branded shoes and clothes and they are driving cars and working in the office. I know it’s tough to be calm all the time. But this is a test for a good communicator and a good person. If someone passed this test, he/she will become a good communicator.

Patience in communication teaches you how to talk and when. If someone is angry, it’s important that you just listen. You don’t have to respond quickly. Just analyze the situation and time.

Listening is the most important communication skill. It is silence. Silence has its own words. That’s why I am also trying to be a good listener. It’s about receiving the input and filtering through knowledge and facts. Don’t’ talk if someone is not asking for an answer. But if they ask rudely/ badly it means they need love and trust.

In this situation, you have to communicate softly and humbly. In this way, you will earn their and others’ respect. It will showcase the quality of your character. It will strengthen your friendship and partnership.

That’s why I think good communication skills that are based on patience, observation, and analysis of the situation are important to living a happy and prosperous life.

3. Communication skills are important for career development:

Communication skills help in career development objectives. Learning new and any type of technical/non-technical skills required communication skills such as listening, writing, and questioning. Communication skills such as the presentation of himself, methods to present study, and experiences in front of employers and interviewers.

Body language, dress, walking style, eating and drinking styles, eye contact, hand control, etc. everything communicates about us. That’s why it’s important to improve communication skills for every professional. How we talk with our teammates, classmates, and in the workplace environment, etc. helps to get promotion, appreciation, and respect.

You have listened or learned that respect is earned. And to earn the respect of team members, classmates, bosses, seniors, society, friends, and family we need effective communication skills more than money. That’s why it’s important to have good communication skills that represent what we are and are made of.

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4. Communication skills are important in business:

Communication skills help in the business in many ways. It helps in marketing, selling, people management and to build long-term relationships with customers. The way business/seller/team members communicate during the buying process makes a difference in sales.

For example, the effective message, words, sentences, colors, characters, and objects used in the advertisement make a positive impact on potential customers.

In marketing everything communicated such as product design, business logo, landing page message, product description, options in the application and everything that make sales and purchase possible is communication. And if it’s effective it will work.

5. Communication skills are important to becoming a leader:

Leaders tend to build a positive mindset, they change the mindset of society, they drive the group of people in the right direction, they build the teams to achieve certain goals, they inspire the faster, accurate execution of the business plan and they have to lead people with examples. In all these things communication skills play a very important role.

If a leader does not communicate positively then it’s tough to build a positive mindset in people. They have to define goals, directions, and ideas through communication. It can be through digital content, blog, social media, meetups, seminars, speeches, group discussions, etc. In all these things effective and motivational communication plays a big role to make it impactful. And if presentation, speech, plan, application, and guidelines are not effective then it’s tough to gain the trust and support of society.

For example, the government defines the law. But the language they choose to define the law is not personalized to the people. Most people do not understand the legal/government vocabulary. And if they are not able to understand it, then how can they follow the law. That’s why it’s important not only for the government but for every organization, the leader has to communicate effectively and needs to show things in examples.

6. Communication skill helps to become educated:

As I explained above that to learn any skills it’s important to have communication skills. But now let’s understand it more deeply.

Communication skills help to become educated. Your degree, diploma, and technical skills are not proof that you’re educated. It’s proof that you have attended the college and have done the course. But it doesn’t mean that you have the knowledge and you’re educated enough to handle the organizational plans.

So the way you communicate, the way you explain your knowledge/idea/principles/law/duties/topic with a different audience in various positive and negative situations and methods, is proof that you are knowledgeable and educated.

There are many people who don’t attend any college and degree but the way they communicate looks like they are so much educated and experienced.

I know you have visited government offices many times. You saw how those officials and bureaucrats communicate with you. For example, if a Sub-Divisional Magistrate/and any highly ranked government employee communicate rudely, or behave badly with citizens then it showcases the level of their education and knowledge. Some situations are exceptions.

You also saw that many doctors, government officials, leaders, and even peon communicate with poor citizens very badly. In this situation, the law and order become worst than good. Only because of communication. That’s why communication skills help us to become educated.

When we listen patiently we understand others. When we communicate with love and grace then we become able to understand the problems of citizens and it is the way to help others and it is the way to ask the right questions.  That’s why I think to become really educated, it’s important to have good communication skills.

So, in a nutshell, I can say that communication skills help us to live a happily, gracefully, prosperous life not only for ourselves but also for others. It helps to create a positive environment and make big things possible.

No one care today, how much money you earn, how rich you’re, you will never be able to earn the respect of your kids, parents, friends, the society without good communication skills.