From the moment of birth, babies are learning how to communicate, building on their innate ability to speak to their mother through crying. Thereafter, throughout life, a person's development and progress depends on communication of one form or another, either communicating to or receiving communication from others. Communication skills are a very important asset to help any person on the road to success.



Being able to communicate is essential to all creatures in nature, and the human species is no different in that respect. Of course, we regard human communication as far more complex and sophisticated than that of other species.

There are several avenues and means of communication that we, as a species, use. However, for the purpose of this article we will focus on interpersonal communication skills, as it is those skills that may be critical to success in many fields of endeavour.

It is no coincidence that most large companies and organisations will include communication skills in their training programme for their staff's career development. For most businesses and non-profit organisations, their long term success and efficiency will receive a valuable contribution from employees with good communication skills.
For those who need specific types of communication skills, such as public speaking, special training courses may be arranged internally, contracted out, or the employee sent on an outside course.............

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