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The difference between speaking good and communicating better is all about understanding monologues and dialogues. 

Where voices are all vying for individual microphones, are we really aiming for a transactional communication or are we just performing a collective monologue?

The present difference makes it harder to reify considering how everyone is resonating their messages at all directions. While there is no problem behind this, the difficulty lays distinguishing whether we are addressing our points-of-concern multidimensionally or linearly. The problem is most often observed within academes, corporate avenues, and current political stages. To clearly state; speaking good is not totally reciprocal from communicating better. One has a sole goal of message-transmitting hiding behind an excellent façade while the other is acknowledging multi message-transmissions. One is engaging to a monologue and one is evolving through a dialogue.  

Speaking good

An element vital to any interpersonal networks is message presentation. With clearness comes comprehension. Speaking good is essential for it elevates one’s message more by doing speaking aerobics, nonetheless. Such factors including tone, voice clarity, speaking rhetoric, confidence, and attitude all share equal parts of the pie transcending to façades of excellent speaking. Speaking good is all about message presentation. It discusses about how you look and sound credibly. It filters your message and serves it on a silver platter with golden utensils. While the main highlight of this is presentation, one’s message is linearly transmitted so to say. It does not acknowledge idea-multitudes rather it is encapsulated to a sole idea, the speaker’s only idea. Speaking good is all about appearance, presentation, and speaking-vanity. It puts speakers at a pedestal; unconsciously knowing they are merely engaging to monologues.

Communicating better

The end goal of all interpersonal and intrapersonal speaking is understanding. With understanding comes concluding and action-rendering. While we must put speaking goodly in an elevated way, communicating better really highlights one’s message to its core. It does not solely invest resources on message-appearance and transmission; but it gives out ideas untouched and it creates outlets for diverse idea entertaining. Communicating better understands the narratives of not just the speaker; but the audience in general. It is not encapsulated having a sole idea as lone oral foundation, but it bridges the gap between similar and contrasting concepts introduced by people who understood the content of one’s message. This is when message transaction takes place. This is when discourses happen. Messages are not addressed linearly but they are multidimensionally; considering all aspects not just appearance, presentation or any speaking vanity consideration. End goals, conflict-resolution and idea-innovation. Communicating better is letting oneself evolve through dialogues.

The rise of statistics pertaining to excellent speakers is growing exponentially. They are invited to introduce their lone ideas at esteemed conferences, conventions, and meetings. They are applauded every time they end with a cliché quote or a life experience. They engage through monologues and people are moved. On the other hand, effective communicators do not grow as rapid as compared to their earlier counterpart. They are not often invited to said settings, but they are mostly found in the academes, teaching or counselling, at medical centers, healing, or at our residences, listening to your after school or work stories. They engage through dialogues and people are empowered.

Sometimes, the people who are speaking greatly are not as of effective as of those communicating best. Often, those of whom communicating best are not as of esteemed as those who speak greatly.

So, if found oneself confused, Would you rather be dubbed as a speaker or a communicator?

Asulats.