The need for communicative competence

As one engaged in teaching at the University level and training high profile executives and technocrats at a leading MNC,
I have perceived that communicative competence is a significant challenge to many. Without the ability to express oneself clearly, any amount of career success will permanently keep pricking you. Whether you are a highly qualified Engineer or doctor or even a high ranking civil servant,
you can never be at rest with the sense of social inadequacy. I rememebr the days when I was severely suffering from an inflated ego after scoring University rank in B.A. English from a college in the South. Later when I joined the Madras Christian College, I had to struggle for conversational ease
with my friends from the city colleges. It was then, I realised I had to make a serious decision to acquire language and social skills.

When you fly in an aeroplane, check into a star hotel, or a tourist resort you are caught in situations which cause huge embarassments,
forced silence and an awkward smile. How many of you have gone through all those heavy duty Engineering and prefessional courses, later
hired by generous employers but soon found to be "not fit" for the job ?. Perhaps among you there are hundreds who might have never dared to take an international standardized test like the GRE or GMAT. Without the ability to speak and write fluently one becomes vulnerable as the member of the most endangered species in a corporate environment or a socially elite group. You probably might have noticed the first generation entrepreneurs and learned beuaracrats ho were all wise enough to send their children to overseas Universities.They are the ones who are introduced to us as world's top notch scientists and technocarts , diplomats and management executives. If you are in the habit of following the background of some of the most successsful and outstanding indviduals you would find they were all those who spared no effort to aquire the communicative competence. Take a look at look at eminent personalities like Shiva Sankara Menon , Indira Nui, and even Sashi Tharoor. Why were these individuals able to capture the center stage.? Let us all reflect ....

So this is an invitation to all those in such situations to contact chennaipage for counselling. We may be able to help you out to redefine your personality. It takes time, it costs money but it brings rich rewards.