The Correlation between Critical Thinking and Effective Communication

We are here to discuss about the importance of ‘effective communication’ in enhancing critical thinking for the managers. As we know, Managers of any organization contribute largely for the wellbeing of the organization. We all know that communication is very important for building relationships be it business, be it life. However, the impact of communication for practising critical thinking is a wide topic having different concepts and arguments. It is known that critical thinking helps in enhancing of thoughts and develop hypotheses along with using evidence and explanations. Communication in business language is a meaningful alteration of information and critical thinking is the backbone of effective communication. Hence, it can be said that communication enhances a clarified deliberation process among the individuals and critical thinking raises the clarity of thought among the individuals. You may know that poor communication always affects on the amount of involvement among the employees. Often organisations arrange training programmes to introduce the explicit parts of communication but this fails because that training does not imply the exact meaning of communication.

Communication introduces the concept of critical thinking to the managers and because of that, it is observed that they think rationally and try to develop arguments. It can therefore be said that thinking in a critical manner and communicating with the employees in an organised manner reduces the amount of ambiguity in the conversation. Communication is not only about delivering information to someone; it also involves the importance of listening. Listening is the most effective part of communication because only listening interprets the set of words said by the sender to the receiver in a meaningful and proper way so that the receiver does not have any misconception about it. A leader or manager through the means of communication may bring out questions or initiate arguments. The concept of critical thinking is important for the managers not because it helps them in proper decision-making but it helps them to respond in an effective manner without reacting on the same matter. However, it is identified that listening to yourself is very important for a communication process and this is because when a person thinks critically it offers them a control over own beliefs and let them go beyond their biased limitations. Critical thinking in a person helps them practise an effective communication process with the receiver. If I take myself as an example, I can say that as I am a critical thinker I have stored arguments, thoughts in my mind and that is why I am being able to talk about effective communication and its relation to critical thinking. You must know that being a critical thinker you will always be able to start conversation with others if you have confidence in yourself and have relevant arguments in your mind. Therefore, it can be said that communicating is not the only criterion but adapting proper way of communicating is the most important criterion and critical thinking is the way that will help a person to structure and deliver your messages in a proper way and with a growing impact. Critical thinking and communication have a very deep connection among them because communication always requires adapting of proper way in which the message will gain more impact and without critical thinking, you cannot be sure about which way it can be done. While discussing about organisations, it can be said that they can initiate critical thinking as a part of organisational culture and this is because initiating critical thinking will offer the leaders and managers of the organisation evaluation of their critical thinking skills. For every organisation, there must be an initiative taken to improve how the people think and if this process is done in a proper way then the overall communication process of the organisation will be improved as well. This will be more precise if a say that if organisation is a car and communication is the fuel then critical thinking is the driver of the car.

The Four Argumentative Moves Theory

This discussion will be more precise when it is explained using ‘The Four Argumentative Moves’ theory. This theory is incomplete without the mention of pragma-dialectical ideal model. Critical thinking always requires the help of some models and theories among which the argumentative moves is very common one. This is a certain type of communication, which helps in resolving the problem of different opinion by providing both process and results together. When the managers uses this kind of theory they will be able to place their words in front of the employees as well as know what arguments the employees can raise in the discussion.

Critical thinking with argumentative moves will help the employees to communicate about new ideas with the managers. This is because critical thinking does not allow fake assumptions; it helps in building an efficient work place with an effective communication. Effective communication is very important for practising critical thinking in an organisation and that is why every organisation must enhance critical thinking in their culture and introduce to the employees the importance of effective communication. However, this discussion ends here but still I think I have made myself clear about how communication and critical thinking is interrelated and how an organisation will gain help from both the two concepts together. Critical thinking will not come out without the help of communication and communication will not be successful without critical thinking. Argumentative moves is an important tool used throughout the speech for making it more appropriate.

While discussing importance of effective communication using the theory of Dilts’ logical levels for practising critical thinking I came to know about the role of communication and critical thinking. I have also known that these two concepts are correlated to each other and for every organisation, absence of one leads to problem. Effective communication is very important for business and critical thinking is the most important concept that helps in having an effective communication. I have learned that critical thinking establishes the process in an individual with the help of which they are able to think about issues in a deep way and tries to solve problems. However, problem solving cannot be done without proper communication. The goal of every organisation is to use the knowledge of critical thinking and communicate well to increase their good fame. I came to know while learning about the importance of critical thinking and communication that critical thinking in an organisation depends on many factors, which are the event, the recognition of the event, the alternative response identification, the selection of the response and the implementation and last but not the least the trigger that creates the implementation. I have gained a lot of knowledge about the importance of critical thinking and communication in workplace, I know that Critical thinking, and communication has an inbuilt relationship. Argumentative moves are another type of critical discourse analysis tool that is used throughout the speech.

Importance of Critical Thinking and Communication in Workplace

This is because communication always requires adapting of proper way in which the delivered message will gather responses that are more positive and without critical thinking, it cannot be made sure about which way it can be done. About organisations, it can be said that they needs to have critical thinking as an integral part of organisational culture so that it offers the leaders and managers of the organisation evaluation of their critical thinking skills. Symbolism is another language trick that made me understood the fact that for every organisation, there must be an initiative taken to improve how the people think and to turn this process towards positive results the overall communication process of the organisation needs improvement as well. Now I know that Communication has few principles and if an individual understands that principles it will be better to get the required solution. The principles are through proper communication grammar and language rules are understood, the information is clearly understood, the medium is accessible, there is an introduction to the will of communication, there is a confirmation that the information is properly received.  However, I have noted that normal communication is different from business communication and this is because business communication builds relationship with other businesses. Now I can say that critical thinking and communication works as the foundation of relationships. They both comprises of the ability using which they can identify a problem, think about it, raise arguments, informs others, gathers the relevant information and explore the required solutions. Every communication requires critical thinking as without it no conversation is established. I came to know that Critical thinking is very important for establishing a proper communication. This topic also made me understood that communication itself is not enough for practising critical thinking by the managers because they also have to find a way using which they will be able to communicate properly so that the results are worthy. While learning about the topic I also learned that in the last few decades, critical thinking has established itself as a development and culture that every organisation must practise. Managers of every organisation communicates with the employees after critically thinking on any matter and this is because critical thinking helps them identify the problem in a wide manner and think in a rational and unbiased way. I have learnt many more things like critical thinking in business helps in analysing the problem with diverse perspectives and then communicate those in a clear and precise manner. However, I noticed that critical thinking is very important for business and this is because without critical thinking the business can often take bad decisions and lead to huge loss. I noticed that when a manager critically thinks over a matter they are able to communicate with the employees in a better way and practise good communication with the employees as well. Critical thinking often relates to the elements of thought and determines the purpose, arguments, assumptions, information, concepts, thoughts and lastly the conclusions. I understood that enhancing critical thinking in an organisation is a long process and it can be possible by the involvement of both the employees and employer. In every organisation, Critical thinking will help the employees to communicate about new and innovative ideas with their managers or leaders. The reason behind this is that critical thinking does not allow false assumptions; it encourages the building of an efficient work place with an effective communication process in it. Effective communication plays a very vital role for practising critical thinking in an organisation and that is the reason that every organisation enhances the concept of critical thinking in their list of organisational culture and introduces to the employees the importance of effective communication in the workplace. Both for business or for life, communication and critical thinking are very vital and this is because not only they are correlated but also because every matter needs critical thinking and every conversation needs arguments for continuation. Hence, I precisely understood that if I say that problems require critical thinking and critical thinking requires a definite way of communication to render information in an effective manner.

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