The importance of effective communication skills

I think communication is the basis of the social relationships between each being (human, animal or even vegetal). If we didn't communicate, the humanity would probably collapse. Because communication is the only way to solve a problem, to introduce yourself, to tell somebody that you love her/him, ...

Besides this essential aspect, skills in communication are all the more important to make it effective. By effective, I'm implying when the communication process is perfectly adjusted, making every single message clear, concise, coherent... The 7Cs. But especially convincing !

When I was young, I used to do some acting at middle school. I didn't really like learning whole pages of lines, but I enjoyed acting on the stage because I could give free rein to my imagination and to my abilities to make people laugh. I think that acting is a really good means to learn a lot about effective communication skills. Because when you want to make people laugh, you actually try to be clear and concise in the way you'll tell the joke. You also try to use the appropriate gesture, or face expression, at the right moment, and which will make the audience laugh. 

Effective communication skills allow people to convey their message with style, courtesy, strength of conviction and charisma. Those are the best ingredients so that your interlocutors are suspended from your lips and definitely agree with your words. Real communication skills allow you to convey convincing messages, and you can be respected for that. 

Later, I will be a supply chain manager. To my view, a manager has effective communication skills if he is highly persuasive and comprehensible by his colleagues. And that's maybe the most important aspect for me, as a future manager : the ability to convince people with those skills.

A little about me ...

Hey folks !

As I'm a new blog user, I need to introduce myself...

My name is Guillaume. I'm from France, more particularly from the city of Nice on the "Côte d'Azur" (see the beautiful picture above). You probably have already heard about the French Riviera ? Soon, you will hear this accent escaping from my mouth, which makes the fame of French people !

I'm here in Singapore with my friend and classmate, Maxime, who will take part of this course too.

I'm 23 (in September) and I study industrial engineering in Grenoble Institute of Technology. I will be studying in NUS during one semester.

I came in NUS first because it's a very famous and recognized university. And that's a privilege for me to study here during one semester, to enhance my knowledge in industrial engineering but also to improve my communication skills. On the other hand, I chose Singapore because it's just the best place in Asia where you can easily travel all around Asia (Australia as well) at relatively cheap costs.

My feeling about Singapore so far

I've already visited a lot of places in Singapore. Especially the famous and inescapable Clarke Quay, where there's a lot of exchange and local students to mingle with and to meet. We've already met some kind people, with whom we are now used to spending our evenings and partying together.

I arrived in Singapore now 3 weeks ago, and I feel how much this city is enjoyable and rich of good people yet. The town is perfectly clean, the architecture is just awesome, and its economic growth made of this state-city one of the most dynamic countries of Asia.

But I think there is a price for this...

For the moment, I've noticed that it seems to be very restricted in terms of laws and rules.

Most of people we meet in the MRT, for instance, are constantly staring at their smartphone's screen or downcast eyes... As if they didn't want to look at foreign people, as if they distrusted them. I did feel - and stop me if you think I'm wrong - that they don't want to make the slightest mistake, for fear of being reprimanded.

But I also think it's a question of culture and customs : we are not used to meeting such people in France. And I'm sure that I'm going to learn to merge in this environment and that I'm going to meet full of great people.

I look forward to meeting you in the ES2007S module, and to improve my communication skills in English (you probably know what is said about the relationship between French people and the English language !).

Cheers,

Guillaume