What are the most important communication skills that researchers should have?

The most important communication skills for researchers to compete and be successful in today's competitive world; as follows;

• communicate with brevity and clarity
• you should be able to teach your methods and theories to an expert
• know how to explain the importance of your work to anyone, expert or non
• be able to give:1) an engaging multimedia presentation;2) a "chalk talk" (without any visual aids);3) a historical overview of the research legacy leading up to your research
• avoid playing political tactics and the verbal tai chi of deflecting the question and turning it into the question you want to answer; instead answer the question that was asked of you
• enunciate
• define your acronyms
• practice saying "I don't know"
• be able to cite sources for your statements
• remember the names of the authors whose research you cite (this is quite difficult but gets better the more your write and the longer you're in your field)
• vary your speaking tone; it's easy to slip into researcher-monotone when nervous
• slow down--you know your work inside and out, but your equations and graphs are immediately obvious and clear only to you; you need to give everyone else time to process both what you're saying and what they're seeing
• if giving a slide presentation remove as many words from your slides as possible and just tell the audience what you want them to know; if they're reading your slides they're not listening to you and vice versa
• visual design really does matter; spend a week or two getting to know about Edward Tufte, data-to-ink ratio, color schemes, etc. There are a lot of tools out there to do this stuff for you, e.g. Color Advice for Maps
• if you use a color to represent a thing, use that same color for that thing in all your figures
• be able to explain why you're doing what you're doing
• try to make a cohesive story from start to finish to end (but don't hide any bumps along the way! Often the failures and troubles are just as, if not more, interesting)

Coming from a teaching background, I would say communicating in a language that ca be adapted to a diverse background of individuals, is critical.  This entails having excellent spoken and presentation skills, as educators are always trying to communicate a complex topic in a more digestible manner.  

Coming from a writing background as well, I would say, a strong ability to construct sentences that can deliver your message in a concise yet intriguing way. 

Presentation skills are equally important, as on both platforms (education and writing) you are presenting information. 

1- Being Straightforward

2- Ask the right questions

3- Ask the right people

4- Go to the right channels

5- Possess excellent Listening skills to save the needed information

6- Know how to direct the conversation such that you get the wanted answer.

I am agree to this statement: Research officer should have to communicate very fluency their field of the research. Research filed is the most various aspects, multi-cultural, multi linguistic fields. So research officer should have communication tools are very important. Ex: Video Clips, success story, body language, using multi media.

When they doing presentation audience are very important. There are the people should listening the presentation so Research Officer should fulfill the audience demand and current market trend also.   

1.Curiosity, it encourages questions

2.Non-hesitent to questions 

3.Reading previous researches on related topics

4.Collection of related data for research

5.Capacity to transform data into required information

6.Writing Power to put information in an elaborated manner

7.Summaries the information into final research paper

A researcher should be organized and have good analytical skills.

project management, data analysing and extraction, IT skills, budget management, reporting

he also shoulad have command at the subject

Team-work & leadership

A good researcher should be capable to write clearly and breifly

patience, accuracy,time managment, direct to point searching , and computer skills.

A researcher should have clear objective of the research.

The main job of the researcher is to convert the raw data into meaningful insight. Now a days presentations have shifted to info-graphics so he should have a clarity in mind how to present the data to senior management. In corporate sector most of the audience is not concerned with the methodology of research but they are more concerned about "What value  this research project will add to their business in a quantifiable amount"  it can be in the shape of increased sales volume or decrease in certain cost.

The most important communication skills are -

· Listening

· Nonverbal Communication

· Clarity and Concision

· Friendliness

· Confidence

· Empathy

· Picking the Right Medium

· Open-Mindedness

· Respect

· Feedback

he most important communication skills for researchers to compete and be successful in today's competitive world; as follows;

• communicate with brevity and clarity
• you should be able to teach your methods and theories to an expert
• know how to explain the importance of your work to anyone, expert or non
• be able to give:1) an engaging multimedia presentation;2) a "chalk talk" (without any visual aids);3) a historical overview of the research legacy leading up to your research
• avoid playing political tactics and the verbal tai chi of deflecting the question and turning it into the question you want to answer; instead answer the question that was asked of you
• enunciate
• define your acronyms
• practice saying "I don't know"
• be able to cite sources for your statements
• remember the names of the authors whose research you cite (this is quite difficult but gets better the more your write and the longer you're in your field)