Great points. Especially the “no interrupting” and the gentle criticism if any, especially in more formal situations.
However, these points are hard to learn without previous experience.
Communication skills are not “sit and study” skills, I think.
Also, these skills are much easier to talk about than to actually do.
Finally, shouldn’t there be a difference between talking to people with different statuses?
People shouldn’t talk to top bosses the way they would talk to a coworker. They wouldn’t talk to coworkers the way they’d talk to a high school student, etc.
Sometimes—especially in a lab environment—you need overcome another researcher’s biases and teach them something. How can you do that successfully if you are younger (and therefore at a lower social status)?
I just know that the more time I spent working in the real world (as opposed to school), the more I realized how hard communication really is.
Great points. Especially the “no interrupting” and the gentle criticism if any, especially in more formal situations.
However, these points are hard to learn without previous experience. Communication skills are not “sit and study” skills, I think. Also, these skills are much easier to talk about than to actually do. Finally, shouldn’t there be a difference between talking to people with different statuses? People shouldn’t talk to top bosses the way they would talk to a coworker. They wouldn’t talk to coworkers the way they’d talk to a high school student, etc.
Sometimes—especially in a lab environment—you need overcome another researcher’s biases and teach them something. How can you do that successfully if you are younger (and therefore at a lower social status)?
I just know that the more time I spent working in the real world (as opposed to school), the more I realized how hard communication really is.