Importance of Communication

The Importance of Communication Often we feel that we know everything about communication just based on what we were taught throughout our lives. In reality communication is more complex than we may think. Communicating takes a lot of time, effort and study to become skilled in communication. When people reach a certain age, they feel as though they have sharpened their communication skills; communication skills can be built upon and made more effective in delivery and accuracy, I feel communication is never going to be completely perfect.
While you’re communicating, you have to know how to influence the attitudes and behaviors of others. Unfortunately, when I have to do a speech or when I have to speak in front of a crowd, I don’t know how to do so in a way that my words will influence their attitudes or thoughts. When I communicate, sometimes I tend to explain things in a way most people can’t understand or relate to. So when I am talking to a crowd or a group of people, I must learn to reel them in, get their attention and keep it. I understand in order for me to understand and learn how to do this, I have to work on my delivery and knowledge on what I may be discussing. Another area of communication I have a problem with is holding an interesting conversation. I often talk about one thing and end up talking about something totally different. If I meet new people, I would talk about the essentials, but after that conversation is over, I have nothing else to say. That is one reason I have a fear of going in front of a crowd, I don’t want to be in discussion and they aren’t paying attention to me. I know that in order for me to improve my speech and communication skills, I have to make my speeches interesting with my gestures and knowledge on the subject. My last problem area in speech and communication is explaining complex ideas. In this specific area of communicating, it gets very difficult for me. Merely because I know what I want to say, I just