When I first heard the term “effective communication”, several
scenes pop up into my head. Two best friends were sitting on their sofa and
talking with each other, businessmen were negotiating with their contracts.
Effective communication is essential to our life. Therefore, learning effective
communication skills are important to us. Although some people claim that words
are more essential in making the communication effective than nonverbal signs.
They failed to consider that in fact the nonverbal communication sometimes is
as important as or even more important than verbal communication in effective
communication skills. I will illustrate it in three aspects in the following
paragraph.
“E”, stands for efficiency, nonverbal communication would help to
improve the efficiency of communication, for example, when someone ask for a
direction, you would like to draw a map or point in the direction of the
location instead of describing it. “A”, means assist, body language would
assist the words and enable people to have a better interpret on content of the
speech. “R”, is to help people become more relate with each other, nonverbal
communication is better than verbal in sharing feelings. It makes people become
closer to each other, for instance, a hug from old friend and a high five with
teammate after a success, they both bring people closer. Lastly, “E.A.R” here has the same spell with ear, ear
is the organ of listening and listen contributes crucially in effective
communication. It would let you understand others in their own perspective and
eliminate the misunderstandings. Hence, I believe if we would express ourselves
with the combination of verbal and nonverbal communication and listen to others
carefully, the communication will be more effective and people will perform
better at workplace and get closer with their friends and families.
