Non-Verbal Communication Is More Important Than Verbal Skills in Workplace

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Argument: Effective non-verbal communication is more important than verbal communication skills in the workplace. In a workplace, workers need to communicate with variety of people like their coworkers, managers or clients everyday. Therefore, communication plays an important roll in a workplace and effective communication skills became valuable. An effective communication requires good verbal communication as well as non-verbal communication skills. Verbal communication is to communicate with the messages transferring by words like talking face to face or through phone, while in non-verbal communication, the messages are sending by your body language, such as facial expressions, eye contact, gestures or your posture, and tone. It has been arguing whether it is more important to have the skill in verbal or non-verbal communication. A popular psychology study done by Albert Mehrabian, psychology professor from UCLA, reveals that verbal communication can only impact the overall communication by 7%. The other 38% are tone and 55% are body languages, also known as the 7-38-55 rule. (Mehrabian, A Silent messages 1981). However, some say that in non-verbal communication, senders are only sending cues to receivers that it may lead to a distortion on information. I believe that non-verbal communication skill in a work place is definitely more important than verbal. Workers or managers with effective non-verbal communication skill can bring improvement to a company’s workplace performance. Non-verbal communication is able to improve the relationship between people in a workplace and impacted their performance. As the 7-38-55 rule shows, when it comes to interpersonal communication in a workplace, non-verbal communication has done 93% of the job on conveying your messages. Good posture conveys confidence, eye contact suggest interest, gestures can emphasize

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