The Essentials of Communication and the Importance it has in Everyday Life

The Essentials of Communication and the Importance it has in Everyday Life

Introduction

In today's fast moving world, the importance of communication has grown immensely in order to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in all possible task orientations. Communication can be better understood as the foundation for sharing information between individuals or the whole populace to ensure an understanding and later following the acts in response. Moreover, communication is the process of exchanging information, thoughts, and expressions among individuals, groups, units, teams, and organizations (Wood, 1997). The basis of such purpose or communication is to realize effective and efficient mission execution and accomplishment. However, from an organizational point of view, without the implementation of good communication, there stands a possible chance of failure because of lack of communication, which leads to distress and malfunctions.

Discussion

Identification

The introduction part explains the overall review of the importance of communication process in today's work environment, with such heavy workload and responsibilities there is an essential need of communication within and outside organizations to keep the matters clear and to profound success. Moving further, today the role and influence of army in any country is very high with expenditures carrying great volume to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in their processes. Similarly, with such great influence the army professionals require great amount of integrated communication skills and techniques between the units for success of their missions.

Effective Communication in Army

The operations of army mainly depend on communication within departments or more specifically between troops, which needs to be effective. In an army status, effective communication is the authentic reproduction of orders or instructions generating from thoughts, observations, warnings, which are expressed to soldiers in forms of written, verbal, or pictorial form with implanted strategies on which the soldier has to operate in the given conditions. In this processes the communicator is the leader and the policy maker who communicates to various targeted receivers who are usually soldiers in this regard. In army, the receivers found it mandatory to oblige the communicated programs by the leaders, as they have to follow the given processes.

Effective communication can be achieved by an army official through strong and motivated interpersonal communication, as it is important for the official to make his terms clear down the level. The attribute of an effective communication is not a trait, which is inherent in an individual; however, the particular skill requires masterful skills from achieved from hard work. The basis of an army operation depends on how well the communication is inserted in the troops for the purpose of achieving effective and efficient operational success (Crowley, 1994).

One-Way Communication

The army follows a one-way communication process as only the policy makers are allowed to convey or communicate orders and construct strategies according to that. This could sometimes lack effectiveness and efficiency in communication between the entire organization or between troops which are lead by an individual, as the individual provides orders in a one-way pattern it could lack ...