Which is the most important skill to promote effective communication?

Communication is a cyclic process of transmitting or exchanging information or message through a medium from one entity to another. It is a mutual exchange of facts, thoughts, and perceptions, resulting in a common understanding of all parties. 

Key Points

Active listening is the most important skill to promote effective communication. Listening is one of the important elements of the communication process as:

• listening is message-oriented thus lays emphasis on conveying information. 
• listening is the ability to accurately identify the sounds of speech to interpret messages.
• first we listen in order to assimilate information or to access messages through the spoken word.

Hence, it could be concluded that 'Active listening' is the most important skill to promote effective communication.