If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential
-Warren Buffett-
What is communication?
Before you learn to communicate, you need to know what communication is. What is communication? Communication is the ability to deliver information, news or thoughts to others.
The importance of communication skills to your career
The following quote is very intriguing. Connotatively it means no matter how good you are academically or professionally, without good communication skills, success will never be yours.
No matter what job you have in life, your success will be determined 5% by your academic credentials, 15% by your professional experiences, and 80% by your communication skills
It is true, I always remind my postgraduate students, no matter how good your research is or your findings are, but if you can’t present them well in writing, you will never be able to graduate. The assessment for postgraduate, especially full research, is entirely on written dissertations or theses. Written communication skills are thus the key to success.
Constructive conversations
Healthy conversations are conversations that can lead us to constructive conversations. Unfortunately, the ultimate aim of conversations to some people is victory. If winning is the goal of conversations, communication will never take place.
New Academia
Remember the story of NOKIA – if you don’t want to change, you will be insignificant. Changes in academia are inevitable and this thus signifies that academia is not static but dynamic .
Spatial as a Semiotic Mode
In multimodality, spatial is one of the semiotic modes used for communication. Spatial includes layout and organisation of objects and space. But, how do we communicate through a spatial mode?
Control your stress
Assessing Graduate attributes
Is there such a thing called graduate attribute assessment? How can we accurately assess the soft skills? Click on the link given for the answers.
Generic Rubric
Under construction…
How we react depends on our emotions not intelligence.
In a meeting, my colleague was complaining about the amount of work that her department had to deal. Nevertheless, she did not make it crystal clear the source of the over work. Since we are from the same academy, I jumped to conclusions, thinking that she was complaining about my department. Based on the previous experience with her, I was a bit emotional and defended my department. I gave her a call after the meeting with the intention to confront her. And guess what I got. She was not pointing to my department but other department and I spoiled her plan. The past experience and emotions do influence our decisions and reactions. Luckily, there was no hard feeling. This is what I have to practise
Open my mind before I open my mouth
Each emotion offers a distinctive readiness to act; each points us in a direction that has worked well to handle the recurring challenges of human life. as these eternal situations were repeated and repeated over our revolutionary history, the survival value of our emotional repertoire was attested to by its becoming imprinted in our nerves as innate, automatic tendencies of the human heart.
intelligence can come to nothing when the emotions hold sway
(Daniel Goleman, 1995: 4)