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How important it is to have excellent communication skills if I want to work as a Professor in top colleges?

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RE: How important it is to have excellent communication skills if I want to work as a Professor in top colleges?

Dr Aparna
Dr Aparna
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Hello


Thank you for choosing Mera career guide and writing to us. Apart from the counselling already given by our counsellors on this thread, I wish to put in some extra points on this topic. This is definitely a wonderful question.
Professors
Communication is the key for being successful at any job and yes, it is an integral part of a Professor role as well. As a Professor you need to have the ability to communicate well to your students as it is necessary for students to receive your communication well and apt in time. As a Professor you need to develop and demonstrate excellent in four skills basically and they are speaking, reading, writing and listening.

You should be very good in speaking and especially at public speaking. As a professor you may always require to stand at the front of the class in lecturing/ tutoring students and this requires you to have be devoid of public speaking fear. You should be bold, fear less and very clear with your communication and above all you should be rightly audible. This doesn't mean that you will have to shout but you should know the frequency of voice that you may have to raise in order for you to reach until the last row of the class. Body language is another important skill that you need to develop and demonstrate. This will help you to get your students actively listen to you and also engage with you in class. It transforms energetic environment through out the class room and by this way you can get your students sit active in class. Eye contact is an added skill required while speaking in a class. As a professor you need to maintain eye contact with every student while lecturing. This will ensure that you are reachable to the student and the student will also be aware that the professor is watching them. This will keep them away from sleep in class. As a professor you may also be required to speak to industrialists and at other research conference events and developing speaking skills will be highly effective in this manner.

Reading skill is the second important communication skill. You should stick to the pace of reading notes and it is always said that a professor should never exceed 65 words per minute while reading notes or an academic script. This is the proper pace of reading and it will help the students easily observe what you are reading and follow up with it. Along with this, reading skill will help your own development. The more you read on latest research happenings and discuss this in class, the more you and your students are aware of current trends.

Writing is the third important skill for a professor. This is particularly more important if you are writing a research report. A professor should know effective writing skills that includes critical thinking and critical writing skill. This skill is more important in contemporary research especially in social science research. Added to this analytical writing is also appreciated when writing exclusive research reports.

Finally the listening skill is more important as a professor needs to carefully listen to the student's queries and answer it to the point rather than giving a brief picture.

Hope this helps.
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