Analyze Strengths:
In the self-evaluation of communication competency, I felt that my strengths were in Empathy, Commitment, Self-monitoring, and having a Wide Range of Behaviors. An example of Empathy being one of my strengths is that I am able to pick up and feel another person’s feelings and current situation as if I was experiencing them myself, particularly with my family members and closest friends. An example of Commitment being another strength is that I care deeply for others and their feelings, and the message being conveyed between us when we are communicating. I actively seek to better my communication skills by demonstrating thoughtfulness, sincerity, and compassion in order to better my relationships with others who I care about.
“My strengths are reading, listening, speaking, honesty integrity, and focused. There is no need in life to be afraid of the truth so I am honest with people. Reading is easy to me and I comprehend what I read very well. I speak in a good tone and I am pretty direct and clear with my words. I know how to focus on the positive things in life and never easily influenced. I have integrity because there is never a fear in me of losing someone for what I will say. If you don’t like
When reflecting on myself as a communicator I see that there is much strength and weaknesses, but each one of these makes me into the person I am. My strengths encourage me to reach for my goals and dreams; they also allow me to be able to reach out to people through my words and push me to be a better individual. Many of my weaknesses though can have a tendency to bring me down as a communicator, but they also show me how I can work on myself, what I need to do to get stronger, and push harder towards being the best communicator I can be. The strengths and weaknesses in my life regarding to communication do not only focus on talking through speech, it goes deep into my life and my daily activities. Myself as a communicator affects my basketball career, personal relationships, education, future, and my walk with God.
I was interested by the results discovered at the completion of the StrengthsFinder Survey. While I found the strengths listed surprising at first, after reading the descriptions I could see how they fit my personality and life experiences. I believe it will be a challenge learning how to utilize each individual strength into my life and career, but it will be worthwhile to take the things I’m already good at and use them to my advantage. My top 5 strengths were reported to be harmony, communication, responsibility, discipline, and consistency (Clifton, Anderson, & Schreiner, 2006). I will work to integrate and utilize these strengths into my professional life.
I completed the Communication Competence Scale assessment on myself and calculated my total score to be 98, a low score. I also had a family member complete the same assessment based on his perceptions of my communication competence and that score totaled 132, a high score. The significant disparity of the scores indicates that we definitely have different perceptions about my communication competence. I think this is a very interesting assignment to begin our learning on interpersonal communications, as indicated by our text, “Whatever the association, personal relationships clearly play an important role in our lives and communications helps us form and maintain them” (Floyd, 2011, p. 6). I look forward to applying this assessment toward improving my interpersonal communication which has certain relational implications.
I would consider myself a fairly strong communicator, nevertheless I struggle with noise, civil communication, and public speaking. These three skills are ones that I hope to work on and strengthen throughout the course of this class.
When it comes to coaching the individual needs to be able to communicate and connect to the team to allow for proper relay of the message you want to present. The first two questions let you understand what type of coach you are at this very moment when it comes to communication. Do you let communication be a one way street or a two-way in which coach and player can talk back and forward to discuss a given topic. Therefore, in the third and fourth question focus on the how you can give feedback to others in a group and the way you process feedback yourself. You also need to be able to ask for feedback on how your message is getting through to see if your method is effective or if a change is in order. It is essential for a coach
My main strengths are that I am able to dedicate myself to certain tasks when needed which means that I would give my 100% effort to make sure that I give the best service. I have excellent communication skills, for example for work experience I had to communicate to a variety of people such as teachers,students,receptionists and parents.
There are many aspects of interpersonal communication that one must be able to manage with proficiency in order to be considered a competent interpersonal communicator. These aspects have been divided into six different categories including appropriate, effective, adaptable, conversational involvement, conversational management, and empathy. The table below indicates my personal scores in each of those six areas, and following the chart is an in-depth analysis of appropriate, effective, conversational management, and empathy. Communication skills can also be broken down into motivation, knowledge, and skill. As skill was the area of the test that I scored the lowest on, I have analyzed why this is and what I can do to improve in this area. Overall, I would say that I am relatively strong at interpersonal communication as I am very active socially and have many successful interpersonal relationships in my life.
According to Bridge & Schrodt, (2013) (as cited in High & Scharp, 2015), families and the methods in how they communicate play a vital role in developing an individual’s communication level. Koerner and Cvancara (2002) (as cited in High & Scharp, 2015) explains that family is the first stepping stone towards the development of one’s communication. Therefore, at an early stage of life, individuals will develop their communication skills in relation of those whom they are close to, such as parents, siblings, friends, relatives, grandparents, adoptive parents and so on. Bridge & Schrodt, 2013; Koer ner & Fitzpatrick, 200 (as cited in in High & Scharp, 2015) discusses that the communication behaviors exhibit by these people are observed by the
Throughout my nineteen years of life, I have been a member of many small groups. The majority of these groups have been from either sports teams or school projects, and consisted of less than fifteen or twenty members. When I was in high school, I was a member of the baseball, basketball, cross country, and tennis teams. In addition to those small groups, I also volunteered at a local food pantry and had a part time landscaping job with a small company. Now, I am a sophomore in college, and I am still in several small groups. I am on a basketball, football, and softball intramural teams. I am a member of the football tailgate committee for my fraternity, and I also volunteer with others at
The quality of communication and the way a person chooses to express it, can impact the way a situation conclude. A the way a person chooses to take advantage of the opportunity of communication with another person, creates the type of relationship between one another. It is highly important to have good communication skills including the ability to listen in order for everyone in the situation to be satisfied.
The ability to gain a self-awareness of one's strengths and weaknesses is essential for personal growth to occur, both as a person and as a leader. Having a clear understanding of personal competencies is exceptionally valuable in becoming a more effective communicator, manager and leader in that it provides insight into how to better provide support and assistance to others as well. The intent of this analysis is to discuss the ways in which understanding personal competencies will help in becoming a better communicator and manager. An assessment of how my communication techniques can be changed to work more effectively with different function areas of the business is also discussed. In conclusion, a list of competencies I should specifically on to adapt communication techniques is also discussed.
Ultimately, my communication strengths allow me to understand myself and others better and aid me in communication with others.
I think one of my strengths in communication is the fact that I can speak to just about anybody. I like talking with folks. In conversation, the power of mine will be I can listen and respond. I enjoy having a chat with individuals of cultures that are different since it offers me an opportunity to discover more about the lifestyle of theirs.
There are many limitations in communication and language especially in the written language. The background of the communication, for example when the conversation between Grace and Sarah many such features like implicature, linguistic code and the language level can be assessed. Before that can be done it is important that the fact that nonverbal communications may influence and understanding of the conversation may largely depend on the understanding of the nonverbal communications. There are nonverbal communications that take place and are often neglected in the study of linguistics.