Expression and Communication

Yesterday, I heard from my lecturer talking about communication skill in class. She said that a lot of students do not know how to present something that they are expert in. The students have the skills and their own idea but they do not know how to sell themselves in order to get the attention from other people. They know how to make a product, but they have no idea to sell the product. This is a big obstacle on the way to make a successful business.

In this 21^st century, communication skill cannot be ignored. It is very important for anyone who wants to live in this society. Good communication skill can easily make your audiences clear with your idea. Poor communication skill can easily confuse your audiences as well as yourself and make them bored to continue listening. If the audiences are patient to hear your idea, you may have the chance to express slowly. Good communication skill needs a lot of practices in speaking to others, listening from a good speaker to learn the expression ways, and learning more vocabularies to make your speech to be easier.

What are the factors to cause a person presents something hardly?

(1) First factor can be shyness. Shy to communicate with others especially standing in front of many people and getting their sight attack. It will make you in tension, causing your thinking to be void and then you do not know what to say.

(2) Second factor should be language problem. Language of course has a great influence in communication. When you want to talk something to a foreigner or someone who only know the language which is not your special language, you may have the difficulty to translate from a sentence with familiar language to another sentence with unfamiliar language. Lack of vocabulary or not good in grammar can really make you unable to say out what you want to present on your mind.

(3) Third factor may be professional problem. A person talks about something that he is not well-known about it. He has just a little knowledge about it but he wants to present to others. So, he may talk many nonsenses for the part which he does not confirm yet. After a lot of bullshits, he may confuse himself and hard to continue or easy to make a mistake. Talking nonsense sounds not professional and easily exposed by others when they find out there was a conflict between these points. Saying a well-known topic surely easier to communicate with others comparing with talking nonsense.

There are many methods to present an idea. If using vocal is not enough to clearly express your idea, you can use the body language or sketch it on a paper while you are talking in order to make your presentation to be clearer. No matter using what methods, the most important thing is to make your audiences clear with your idea or your selling point. It can be considered that you have the good communication skill with others.