Master the art of asking
If you want to be an
effective communicator, you need more than just communication skills:
you need to have something meaningful to say. You can start by
1. Collecting good information, and
2. Taking the extra time and energy to make it relevant to others.
You
can do both at once by learning to ask good questions. The benefit of
collecting information this way is that you automatically get deeper
context than you would ever get from other kinds of research; you learn
what people really care about. [Communication Nation]