Abstract
In any profession communication can make or break your career. Learning and maintaining good communication skills are a must.
Effective Communications in Business
Communication in a career provides critical thinking that makes the core of any idea or business venture. Proper communication can help you articulate your ideas and needs to others. Being direct and to the point also provides more insight to your abilities and needs. Your opening statement can make your listeners more agreeable and receptive to your message. Use of visuals can give people point to lock on to remember you and your comments.
“The National Commission on Writing estimates that American businesses spend $3.1 billion annually just training” (Wisconsin Business Alumni, 2006). This shows that all companies worry about the ability of their people to communicate correctly. Many people cause both theirs and their companies lose of money due to improper communication. Many times everyday people cannot understand the business world and some of the ways business people talk so having the ability to communication with everyday people is a must, by this we need to keep it simple in are talks and meetings.
In the business world there are many things that can make your ability to communicate easier. First speak the way you talk, being effective in the business world means sometimes you don’t need to be formal just talk the way you send memos. Be positive take the high road, many times the people listening are not open to your message so being positive well at least gives them something they can remember with a good view of you. Let them know what they can get from you and how it well benefits them. Write and speak at the level the people you are communicating with understand, don’t make them feel inferior to you. Never communicate when angry or upset, people will remember the anger more then what you said. Try to answer question before they are ask, this lets people know you’re on their level and with them in thinking. Keep it short and let it set for overnight, you may have better look at it the next day and be able to correct things. “Writing effective business communications is a skill. It is a skill that can to some degree be learned and developed. Practice, practice, practice, and develop your written business communications skills today” (Klariti, 2008).
In concluding we must all practice our speak and writing skills everyday to further our ability to communicate and make it more of second nature then a task, in doing this we well have a better business world and life.