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Sabah Saleem
Sabah Saleem
Leader, Customer Delivery at Cisco | Ex: Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle
Published Jul 8, 2021
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Articulation is the ability to use and express language eloquently and effectively, it is a valued skill in both business and personal interactions for conveying ideas, leading to better decision-making and persuasive communication of concepts. Since basic cognition requires language, those who master words will deliver new ideas, in turn receiving respect from co-workers, employees, and clients.
Being articulate – communicating effectively – is an essential business skill because it brings clarity to any given situation – good, bad, indifferent. Clarity enables other people to make decisions and apply their resources to a problem. In the modern organizational context, this is paramount. NOT being articulate means knowledge, experience, and problem-solving can’t be shared or applied, which is the same asnot adding value. And if you don’t add value, thenyour career is desperately limited.
For example, if you are working with an engineer who really knows the technology he/she is working on. Technically, he/she is excellent. When you ask him a question, he knows the answer without fail. When given a problem, he’ll know how to resolve it.
But he/she fails in his objectives almost always, because he/she struggles to communicate his/her responses. ‘Knowing’ something isn’t enough when you can’t communicate it.
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As popularly believed, articulation has nothing to do with having a wide vocabulary or knowing the latest buzzwords. It’s quite the opposite in fact! Some of the defining qualities of an articulate person are:
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