COMMUNICATION & CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS

Communication & Clinical Effectiveness

Communication & Clinical Effectiveness

Communication skills are all around us, from the day we are born until the rest of our lives. How many times have you seen communication skills required for a job in the classifieds and wonder what it actually means. A communication skill is some type of skill used in communication, from talking, body language to even listening. Many things can affect the way one can convey his or her communication skills to others. All of these skills are very personnel to one another. Everyone has different ways of expressing some kind of communication skill within them. One communication skill is speaking, by far one of the most important skill we posses. To be a good speaker one must be able to convey ideas clearly and briefly. One must also have a clear and pleasant tone to his or her voice. This makes the person you are talking to more attentive, thus, more interested.

The speaker must also be aware of his environment and the people he is speaking to. Environment plays a lot with what you say and try to convey to people. If you hear a bird chirping, you might incorporate it to what you where just about to say. This makes the person you're talking to even more comfortable with what you are trying to convey with your thoughts and ideas. This is how different things can effect one's communication skill, speaking.

Communication skills will be around us forever and will continue to thrive and develop as time goes by. These effects on communication skills showed that one can interpret different things threw one's communication skills. As one improves their communication skills it shows us how to talk, listen and communicate better with one another. As the world progresses we will see more people taking more time to develop this skill to there fullest. One will understand to control the effect's communication skills causes and how to handle them.

Recent studies of skills and competencies valued by employers continue to document the need for excellence in writing, speaking, and listening (Wilhelm, 1999; NBEA, 2000; US Department of Labor, 1993). Equally significant are such interpersonal communication skills as teamwork, working with culturally diverse populations, and adapting to change and the environment while maintaining a positive attitude (Rubin & Morreale, 1996). Wilhelm concludes the following from his-study of the expectations Arizona employers held for entry-level employees: "The highest valued skills and competencies by employers require for the most part an employee's ability to interact with and relate well with others in the workplace. Of the top-rated nine skills and competencies, none were technical in nature and eight represented abilities to successfully interact in the workplace" (1999, p. 120).

The analytical report assignment described in this article develops and integrates the following skills: oral communicating, interviewing, writing, presenting, listening, interpersonal communicating, and working in teams. Through the professional development topics chosen for the report, students research specific professional skills graduates need when beginning their careers and gain ...