Critical Thinking: The Soul of Communication

The excerpt “Critical Thinking: The Soul of Effective Communication” (2014) has focused on the importance of effective communication in workplaces. 

Both documents, "2008 whitepaper by IDC" and "whitepaper from the Project Management Institute’s Pulse research" reveal how ineffective communication has brought huge monetary loss to the company. It stated that the most important factor to success in projects is effective communication. 

Aside from how communication skills had to be trained correctly, they believe communication is not as simple as lessons. To effectively communicate is to be able to think critically. Communication is not only to exchange data from one another but is "a thought, a feeling and an emotion". 

As an engineering student myself, I had opportunities to intern at certain engineering companies. I strongly believe in the importance of critical thinking and effective communication. Especially in the engineering field, the pieces of information and thoughts we had to pass on are critical. Should it be ineffectively conveyed to another party, errors and problems could be encountered particularly when working on projects.