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Communication and Why It Matters

By Bianca Moreiras
September 02, 2017

Often, it's not what you say, but how much you care: an often-forgotten element to good communication. We're all so worried about getting our point across or winning the argument that we set aside the compassion that goes into a “great” conversation. What I mean by compassion is caring enough to really listen to what the other person(s) is saying.

There is nothing I am going to tell you in this article that you haven't already heard. The problem is we don't put into practice the basic elements that allow us to be “great” communicators. As a matter of fact, we've forgotten how to communicate because of all the technology at our fingertips. Texting, email, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter — need I say more? Technology has taken the spoken word and manifested it into “a box of text” that can come across poorly or offensively to say the least.

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