Communication is one of the most important phenomenon in the world today. It is
practically impossible to achieve anything without an exchange and understanding of
ideas.
Communication is central to civilization and everything that human beings have done since the beginning of time.
Productive communication becomes an even more indispensable tool for people and organizations that seek to achieve desired outcomes in a profitable manner. It is a major catalyst for relationship management owing to the critical role it plays in harmonizing varying positions, conflict resolution and other engagements.
Bad communication is a function of many factors but they can be broadly categorized
into nurture and nature – nature for innate ability or inability, nurture for the learnt
ability or the lack of it thereof.
Many people are not self-aware to know that they are bad communicators because they have not been exposed to an environment that has challenged what they call normal. Possessing great communication skills in today’s world is learnt, it is both a science and an art but there are unmistakable signatures that expose the lack of effective communication.
This episode shows eight signs of bad communication.