A common belief across the education and industry segment is that language is the only means to communicate whereas it is the other way round. Language is a formal symbolical system that has structural qualities, like morphology, semantics and syntax. Morphology defines how words are positioned in a sentence, semantics are the rules of concluding the meaning of morphology, and syntax defines when & what is to be used to define morphology. This flow is common for all kinds of oral, written, sign language or non-verbal communication.
Speech is one form of instrument that is used to express one’s language. Communication is an interactive platform created between two individuals by using language and speech as vital instruments.
Language is symbolic and rule based, whereas communication is social, and it requires flexibility. Thoughts are transmitted at the blink of an eye, which may make or break a communication chain. We can communicate without a language but we cannot use language without communicating with individuals except in cases of doing self-introspection’s.
The ability to talk is different from the ability to communicate. To gain an understanding of how communication develops, how language develops, and how a receptive and expressive language contributes towards social language development is an important step to assess and support the emergence of language for individuals. Language appears to develop effortlessly but communication needs to be developed through improvising receptivity to see which is not visible, listen to the unsaid and feel what cannot be felt.
It would not be incorrect to say that the time has come where language and society need to be in harmony with each other to build in the concept of ‘Sociolinguistics’ ,which is the only way to get the leaders of the next generation to lead in the journey called “Success”.
“Success” differs from person to person, so how is it possible to get an individual to walk this path? The milestones for success may be different for everyone but the path is almost the same. What changes the path is the experience that people come across while walking through and learning’s they take along.
These learning’s get added with every successful milestone reached and get subtracted twice with every failure. This calculation allows people to inculcate various learning’s through the virtue of practice to conclude as desired skills.
When an individual invests time in acquiring skills in business management, it becomes essential for that person to gather all desired tools and techniques. The road map for these tools begins with thinking, continues through reception and concludes with the ability to express. Expressions vary, and so does communication. Laughter is communication; a temper tantrum is communication; smiling is communication; repeating same word is also one kind of communication.
Hence, it is impediment for today’s managers to learn the art of “Effective Managerial Communication”
Disclaimer: This article has been written by Rucchi Kashyap, a Senior Trainer at Fortune Institute of International Business- an MBA college in New Delhi.