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Critical Thinking: The Soul of Communication

 5 September 2022

After I read the excerpt from Pearson's TalentLens Website, I was surprised to find out that the consequences of poor communication are financial losses in businesses, but not shocked at all.


In a current world where communication has evolved into different forms, it is important that everyone equips themselves with good and effective communication skills across all different forms. A pre-requisite to having good communication skills is having good critical thinking skills. Having good critical thinking skills allows us to think about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats about a problem,  as well as allowing us to think about a solution for the problem that has occurred. 


Critical thinking is a key factor in effective communication, as communication is all about the transaction of thoughts, feelings and information between two different parties. Having good critical thinking skills allows each party to think about a situation or problem without any emotion or biases, which will help create and develop a coherent argument.


Moving forward, I am certain that having good communication skills in my future workplace will have a positive impact on my career as it ensures that losses in the business are kept to a bare minimum. Consequences that are incurred due to miscommunication are always detrimental to the business or company, and can be minimised, or in best cases, avoided, if everyone adopts good critical thinking skills which will help promote good and effective communication. 


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