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The Importance of Communication Skills

Our understanding from Sherwyn Morreale, Michael Osborn & Judy Pearson, Professors of Communication (2000)'s quotation (3):

Paul J Meyer gave a similar quote that "Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success.”

Through these quotes, we derived that the importance of being competent at work revolves equal weightage between technical competency and communication. 

How employers identify if graduates are able to communicate effectively would first be during the interviews, where there are forced to articulate their thoughts on the spot and present themselves. This proves if they have leadership through the confidence in their speech and teamwork as they interact with intellectual humility. As one have both of these skills, they will be able to obtain employment. 

Being able to express their thoughts verbally and work through different points of view and arguments, one would significantly heighten their intellectual empathy. This would in turn create better team players and leaders. Once everyone is able to play different roles and work harmoniously due to seamless communication, it would contribute to constant successful work performance. 


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