When asked to do question and answer sessions during presentation, I am always extremely nervous. For most of the time, it was not due to the uncertainty of my knowledge with the topic, but was because of the afraid of being misunderstood. I would wonder whether my choice of words, gestures, facial expressions can help in my explanation. In my opinion, to convey the message in short time using the most succinct words, like other communication skills, is one of the most difficult yet important skills that could represent a person.
We are interacting with people and exchanging messages all the time, ever since we born. To many of us, communication with others is instinct that we even do not realize the power of using it skillfully. We sometimes say too much during a conversation and lose the focus point; sometimes our voice become too tense in a public speech that the fear could not be covered by the sounding manuscripts; or sometimes we are so used to have emoticons in a message that accidently convert a formal report into a dairy. Most of all, we sometimes are just too confident in the way we express ourselves and interpret others (which are admitted, have been used for so many years), that we could not realize that one chance of being promoted in the workplace has been missed during our conversation with the boss. In one word, communication is an art that if used properly, it can do things more than convey a message.
