Challenges, Strengths and Objectives in Communicating

Communication is a necessity in our life. It is a way of sharing knowledge, ideas, expressing emotions and feelings between individuals. There are different types of communication such as speaking, hand gestures, body language and even writing. Different type of communication is used in different kinds of situation. This helps the communicator to convey the message or ideas that they want effectively using the appropriate means of communication. For example, communicating in space by speaking is ineffective as the vacuum in space is different and sound could not travel properly. Using hand gestures and body languages is a better way of communicating for situations like this. This shows one of the challenges an individual might face in communicating.

Even though there are challenges, there is also strength that comes along in communication. Communication can bring peace and major development of the human race. For example, nations can negate war by doing proper negotiation which is a form of communication. Once both party agreed to a condition, it can bring peace and lessens the casualty that could actually be done without communication.  Another example of the strength of communication is development. With proper communication skills, people can invent new stuff. As engineers, sharing of ideas and opinions with one another might lead to new inventions that can bring benefits to the others such as houses, transport system and good energy systems for the upcoming generations. We can see how Singapore had developed from the 1960s to the current time now. This can only be done when people come together, communicate and plan together as a team on how things can be improved and developed further and better. Therefore the strength of communication is great.

Two objectives that I want to achieve in this course are to be able to communicate effectively with project groups and to be able to do a great presentation in front of crowds with confidence. In order to do so the only possible way is to practice more in presenting and participate in group projects more actively.

 

 

 

Interpersonal Communication Skills

It is important to develop communication skills because as engineers in the future, we will need to share our ideas and discuss with one another to solve many different kind of real world problems. To do so, our communication skills must be effective and professional so the other party can understand the message that we are trying to convey. Therefore it is utterly important to develop effective communication skills.

In order to achieve a good set of communication skills, it is a need to participate effectively in the project work by building on ideas, sharing and explaining to groupmates what is in mind and how to make the ideas work. The opportunity of doing the presentation and video project with my group will help me to communicate better and further enhance my communication skills.