Chapter 9-10 Communication Skills

Chapter eleven presented several skills that can be used to start, build, and maintain interpersonal relationships with people from our daily, professional, and personal lives. I thought that all of the listed skills could be very useful and helpful in an interpersonal relationships but felt that there were a few that aren't really necessary when communicating. In my opinion, social decentering, providing support, and listening actively in order to respond effectively strike me as the most important relationship strategies. I believe that the most valuable skill to have is social decentering because it gives you a better understanding of how others will feel and think. This skill is needed to appropriately adjust you're behavior so that you can effectively communicate with others based on you're knowledge of that specific person. This will allow you to predict that person's behavior and reaction to certain situations.

2.1 It is self-evident that communication and interpersonal skills are crucial in the workplace. Good two-way communication is important to enable the flow of information in an effective way whether it be verbal or non-verbal. Good communication has a positive impact on the performance of the team including; everyone is clear what is expected from them, they receive good feedback and recognition of achievements which makes staff feel valued and boosts employee morale. The manager needs to be approachable and have a non-threatening manner so

Ability to communicate with patients confidently – By constantly being around and talking to residents, patients and nurses in the retirement homes I have been able to develop great communication skills. This skill would be extremely helpful during medical training when working with real patients.

Another way to be an effective communicator is listening to the client and answering any questions they may have. In an antenatal ward, the clients will have a variation of questions to ask about their unborn child, their pregnancy and complications in labour. Being an effective communicator means that the professional will be able to answer these questions confidently, reliably, and truthfully. Answering the clients’ questions will make them feel more confident and relaxed about their illness and their baby. Effective communication will also be dependent on whether the client is communicating well back.

Effective communications is important in developing positive relationships because as a teacher`s assistant it develops trust between you and them communication is verbal, body language and eye contact and it is a two way process in how we listen and respond, identify and understand and be able to respond to it through communication appropriately to their ages needs and abilities. This involves using words and phrases that children will understand actively listening to children, responding positively to children`s feeling`s and views and confirming points to reinforce children`s knowledge and understanding helps them to achieve. With young people effective communication is important to developing positive relationships because it reduces conflict

This paper reviews effective communication skills and caregiving approaches which include questioning techniques, non-verbal communication, paraphrasing, and active listening. The different types of questions are open and closed ended and they encouraged effective communication in our conversation. I will review times when it was difficult to paraphrase and use active listening skills. I will describe ways how to improve my non-verbal, paraphrasing, and active listening skills.

I will use this in a group setting to use better and more efficient communication with the children in order to increase their social skills and thinking abilities.

During the course of this semester; the variety of writing styles and essays assigned to me in my communication skills class encouraged the development of my writing skills, as well as provided me with more self-assurance in my abilities. My writing, research, and presentation abilities enhanced through practice, determination, and the understanding I gained during this course. With every single writing assignment, I learned new innovative approaches and skills, which enhanced my abilities to improve my thoughts logically, enabling me to write more clearly, and to organize my papers more effectively. At the beginning of this semester; despite the fact that I already knew the terminology MAP: message, audience, purpose; I never really

Dorothy and I have been friends for 11years now. We meet at a nursing home where we both work as CNA’s . She is no long a cna , she does something completely different. We can go months without talking and then decide we need each other. We can start right back up where we left off. We have been there for each other though up’s and down’s. I can call her anytime and she will answer. We need to spend more time together and commutate more. When she would call I would be always busy with school or work. I didn’t making time for her like I should. I hated doing this because I knew it hurt her feelings and one of these days she is going to get fed up with it and stop being my friend. So I started making

Communication differences – It is important to know the children in your school well as some may have communication difficulties which are not apparent on first meeting a child. A good example of this is a child who is on the Autistic Spectrum as their interpretation of social situations and abstract language tends to be greatly underdeveloped. You must speak plainly and with no ambiguity so as to no cause confusion. Children with a mild hearing loss may just need you to speak slowly and clearly, a more severe hearing loss may require sign language for effective communication and so it may be necessary to take training in sign language if a child with severe hearing loss is coming to your school. Children with speech and language difficulties

This commentary will provide a reflection of the author’s key skill competencies, particularly focusing on communication, teamwork, problem-solving, interpersonal skill. A summary of these keys skills will outline the author’s key strengths and areas for future improvement relative to either current weaknesses and or challenges.

Do you have good communication skills? Well, having good communication skills is a key thing in life. You need to know how to communicate in life to be successful. If you can't communicate you won't be able to get by in life. And if you want to be successful you need to master the language of communication. Some people don't even have an idea of how to communicate but the get by in life just fine while others people have a lot of trouble in life. In the book Of Mice and Men the characters are very poor communicators because the refuse to talk to each other in a decent manner. Because these people can't communicate too well with each other the seem to have a lot of trouble in life. And

As the client has experienced rejection throughout his life I believe having good communication skills is a must. I think it’s necessary to be mindful of how suggestions are put forward to Tim as it could come across harsh and demeaning. By having active listening skills and asking questions it will be easier to understand the needs and wants Tim is trying to express. Attentive listening and mindful talking are both factors which can affect the level of service given to the client, so it is necessary to make sure that these skills are put to work.

Listening is a vital element of communication and it is very much different from hearing sense of human. A meaningful communication requires both a good listener and a speaker. However, the effect of a listening style may vary depending on the occasions and situations a listener is in. Sometimes, speaker exhibit ineffective style such as defensiveness, ambushing, pseudo-listening, stage hogging and selective listening in their communication tracks.

BICS, or Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills, are the basis for socialization in any language and are necessary for day to day life and is referred to as social language. This type of interaction includes embedded content, which involves “comprehension aided by context clues, like facial expressions, body language, modeling or demonstrations, visual clues and cues, etc.” (Combs et al, n.d.). Because content is easy to understand and uses simple language structure, it is seen as cognitively undemanding.