Hey Gillian, Nice job on the first post! Clear and easy to read. However I think that its not just about conveying the right messages, which IS important, but also about the relationships one can build, and about listening to others. We have 2 ears and only 1 mouth right? I agree, we need to go out and interact with others more often, and thus also we would need to listen to others more too. :) I think I came across something like "seek to understand before being understood" when I was forced to do 7 habits. Hope this would help supplement your post!
i have voiced out your last point to several people in the past few months. As people spend on time with their computers, they lose an important aspect of communication: the tone of a sentence. Without listening to tone of a sentence, a message may not be conveyed accurately. Hence the words in the online world might be easily misinterpreted. Therefore the choice of words and language plays a crucial role in supplementing the message. Perhaps that might help people refine their choice of words and help during face to face communication!
Hey ChongYew, you are right! I forgot about active listening is also a form of effective communication.Thank pal for reminding! I know it is important to listen, however it may be quite hard sometimes given the content of the conversation and the way the person speaks can lull one to sleep. Maybe we should excuse ourselves in the middle of the conversation and drink one bottle of Chicken Essence to peak us up.. I guess that will be useful in SOME lectures. Just something random.
Thank you, Gillian, for this post. (Was it intentional that you made your post in the comments section?)
You explain fairly well why effective communication is important. I, too, appreciate your focus on how our Digital Age has created a situation in which many people lose experience in face to face communication. At the same time, we are developing other communication needs, such as those associated with online written communication. (Hopefully, that is a need that this blog experience can help address.)
Like Chong Yew, I also feel that you could put more emphasis on the interactive nature of communication. I see in your response to him that you recognize that.
There are a few language problems in this post. Look at these two sentences:
1) "Thus it is important for people to develop effective communication skills so as to be able to converse with these people make a relationship out of it."
2) "...ABLE to communicate well can be to my advantages too."
3) "I believe that effective communication skills need to be honed at all time. Just like other skills, IT requires constant practice and self improvement."
Call me a techie, but reading the posts and the comments I thought that I should stand up and defend the Internet. While I do agree that there is a need for some to spend more time with friends and family, the Internet is an excellent median for effective communication that one needs to pick up as well.
Social Networks and Instant Messaging aside (since some might argue that they are time wasters), the increased usage of the internet has allowed companies to understand customers and motivate employees better. The internet has also provided a platform from which the average person can share our ideas through blogs, videos and twitter. Most importantly, it has allowed the congregation of people of various interests, propelled the support for various causes, and was instrumental in putting an African-American with a call for change into the White House.
It is easy to attribute the lack of interpersonal communication to the internet, but it is but a tool, and for that matter, a tool that can help us communicate better. Instead, we should consider how it can augment our communication skills, and together with the existing communication skills, become a better communicator.
Dear Mr Blackstone, I did not place my post in the comment section intentionally. I am still trying to figure out how to use a blog( my first one). I think I seriously need to brush up my writing and techno skills.
Regarding about the few language problems that you have pointed out, will it be better if I change it in the following ways?
1)"Thus, it is important for people to develop effective communication skills so as to converse well with people and make a relationship out of it."
2) "being able to communicate well can be to my advantages too."
3) "I believe that effective communication skills need to be honed at all time. Just like mastering other skills, I requires constant practice and self improvement."
"I believe that effective communication skills need to be honed at all time. Just like mastering other skills, it requires constant practice and self improvement."
It is great to see your post in your blog. Well, firstly, I do agree with you totally that effective communication will help in many ways. Like you mentioned, in workforce and in studies being able to communicate effectively enables us to be able to be more accepted by others and lesser misunderstandings.
In addition, I feel that it is also important to be able to communicate effectively and listen actively to our family and friends. In this way, it improves our relationships with them as well as make us understand them better as they will tend to open up to us. Do you agree with me?
Lastly, I agree with Hong Ting that the internet may not necessarily be a source of hindrance to effective communication but rather it may add on as an enhancement. With the internet, people are able communicate even with strangers and in a way, I feel that the internet can actually be a medium for passing on effective communication. Moreover, I feel that family and friends may not necessarily be left out as in my case, I will talk to my siblings in MSN, and I can get to know who their friends through Facebook. Therefore, I feel that perhaps the internet may not be as bad as many will perceive it to be.
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ReplyDeleteHey Gillian,
ReplyDeleteNice job on the first post! Clear and easy to read. However I think that its not just about conveying the right messages, which IS important, but also about the relationships one can build, and about listening to others. We have 2 ears and only 1 mouth right? I agree, we need to go out and interact with others more often, and thus also we would need to listen to others more too. :) I think I came across something like "seek to understand before being understood" when I was forced to do 7 habits. Hope this would help supplement your post!
hey Gillian,
ReplyDeletei have voiced out your last point to several people in the past few months. As people spend on time with their computers, they lose an important aspect of communication: the tone of a sentence. Without listening to tone of a sentence, a message may not be conveyed accurately. Hence the words in the online world might be easily misinterpreted. Therefore the choice of words and language plays a crucial role in supplementing the message. Perhaps that might help people refine their choice of words and help during face to face communication!
Just some food for thought!
Hey ChongYew,
ReplyDeleteyou are right! I forgot about active listening is also a form of effective communication.Thank pal for reminding!
I know it is important to listen, however it may be quite hard sometimes given the content of the conversation and the way the person speaks can lull one to sleep. Maybe we should excuse ourselves in the middle of the conversation and drink one bottle of Chicken Essence to peak us up.. I guess that will be useful in SOME lectures.
Just something random.
Thank you, Gillian, for this post. (Was it intentional that you made your post in the comments section?)
ReplyDeleteYou explain fairly well why effective communication is important. I, too, appreciate your focus on how our Digital Age has created a situation in which many people lose experience in face to face communication. At the same time, we are developing other communication needs, such as those associated with online written communication. (Hopefully, that is a need that this blog experience can help address.)
Like Chong Yew, I also feel that you could put more emphasis on the interactive nature of communication. I see in your response to him that you recognize that.
There are a few language problems in this post. Look at these two sentences:
1) "Thus it is important for people to develop effective communication skills so as to be able to converse with these people make a relationship out of it."
2) "...ABLE to communicate well can be to my advantages too."
3) "I believe that effective communication skills need to be honed at all time. Just like other skills, IT requires constant practice and self improvement."
Do you see how to improve your language use here?
Call me a techie, but reading the posts and the comments I thought that I should stand up and defend the Internet. While I do agree that there is a need for some to spend more time with friends and family, the Internet is an excellent median for effective communication that one needs to pick up as well.
ReplyDeleteSocial Networks and Instant Messaging aside (since some might argue that they are time wasters), the increased usage of the internet has allowed companies to understand customers and motivate employees better. The internet has also provided a platform from which the average person can share our ideas through blogs, videos and twitter. Most importantly, it has allowed the congregation of people of various interests, propelled the support for various causes, and was instrumental in putting an African-American with a call for change into the White House.
It is easy to attribute the lack of interpersonal communication to the internet, but it is but a tool, and for that matter, a tool that can help us communicate better. Instead, we should consider how it can augment our communication skills, and together with the existing communication skills, become a better communicator.
:-)
Dear Mr Blackstone,
ReplyDeleteI did not place my post in the comment section intentionally. I am still trying to figure out how to use a blog( my first one). I think I seriously need to brush up my writing and techno skills.
Regarding about the few language problems that you have pointed out, will it be better if I change it in the following ways?
1)"Thus, it is important for people to develop effective communication skills so as to converse well with people and make a relationship out of it."
2) "being able to communicate well can be to my advantages too."
3) "I believe that effective communication skills need to be honed at all time. Just like mastering other skills, I requires constant practice and self improvement."
Hope it is better.
Thanks, Gillian, for the good changes!
ReplyDeleteSee this one:
"I believe that effective communication skills need to be honed at all time. Just like mastering other skills, it requires constant practice and self improvement."
Hey buddy!
ReplyDeleteIt is great to see your post in your blog. Well, firstly, I do agree with you totally that effective communication will help in many ways. Like you mentioned, in workforce and in studies being able to communicate effectively enables us to be able to be more accepted by others and lesser misunderstandings.
In addition, I feel that it is also important to be able to communicate effectively and listen actively to our family and friends. In this way, it improves our relationships with them as well as make us understand them better as they will tend to open up to us. Do you agree with me?
Lastly, I agree with Hong Ting that the internet may not necessarily be a source of hindrance to effective communication but rather it may add on as an enhancement. With the internet, people are able communicate even with strangers and in a way, I feel that the internet can actually be a medium for passing on effective communication. Moreover, I feel that family and friends may not necessarily be left out as in my case, I will talk to my siblings in MSN, and I can get to know who their friends through Facebook. Therefore, I feel that perhaps the internet may not be as bad as many will perceive it to be.