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Throughout our education, we spend years and years learning to speak, read, and write. In these areas we have a lot of training. First, we learn how to speak. We learn words, then phrases. We learn to put them all together and form sentences. We then learn to read and write, more or less at the same time in elementary school.
As we get older and enter universities or the job force, we sometimes need more communication training, and this training follows in the footsteps of what we already know. In terms of speaking, we learn how to make speeches, and how to develop strong arguments. In terms of reading, we are assigned complex texts, and are assigned to analyze them. In terms of writing, we learn how to formulate our ideas into cohesive arguments, and organized sections.
These skills are important, but very little education and training is spent on teaching us to be better non-verbal communicators or better listeners. These are skills we must develop on our own, without much help. Yet listening and communicating non-verbally are the two types of communication we use the most often! There certainly should be more training on how to become better listener, and how to control and use our non-verbals to clarify and accentuate our verbal communication.
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January 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Seeing as this isn't really a question, I will answer to the best of my abilities.
Throughout our education, we spend years and years learning to speak, read, and write. In these areas we have a lot of training. First, we learn how to speak. We learn words, then phrases. We learn to put them all together and form sentences. We then learn to read and write, more or less at the same time in elementary school.
As we get older and enter universities or the job force, we sometimes need more communication training, and this training follows in the footsteps of what we already know. In terms of speaking, we learn how to make speeches, and how to develop strong arguments. In terms of reading, we are assigned complex texts, and are assigned to analyze them. In terms of writing, we learn how to formulate our ideas into cohesive arguments, and organized sections.
These skills are important, but very little education and training is spent on teaching us to be better non-verbal communicators or better listeners. These are skills we must develop on our own, without much help. Yet listening and communicating non-verbally are the two types of communication we use the most often! There certainly should be more training on how to become better listener, and how to control and use our non-verbals to clarify and accentuate our verbal communication.
References :
Canary, Cody and Manusov: Interpersonal Communication: A goals based approach.
And many years of communication education and research.