1.0 Introduction
Communicating effectively will help me improve my social skills, my self-confidence, and my career. It would be very safe to say that I suffer from “The First-Day Morgue Syndrome” when face with a new or unusual situation I tend to not respond at all, this is a direct result of being shy. I have suffered with shyness my entire life, while it is currently not as bad as when I was younger, I sometimes find myself reverting backwards. I will communicate with strangers but I usually wait for them to initiate, I find this same thing often happens at work too. I will only state my opinions when asked. When around other people, even people I have worked with for years I tend to just shell up and remain quiet. I start to worry about how my words will be perceived and if I will look or sound stupid, therefore, I find myself not saying anything at all and just listening. I have also found that I will avoid social situations when possible, I will usually go to the gym on my lunch break instead of going to the cafeteria, and if someone is using the weights I will just go on the treadmill with my headphones to avoid the interaction. I find that I am okay with one-on-one communication, but I have a lot of anxiety when in a group situation. I become very nervous, my palms start to sweat, my words become shaky, and I talk way to fast with a lot of added um’s and uh’s.
2.0 Plan of Improvement
I realize that it is extremely important for to overcome my shyness in order to
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1. Based on the reading, identify two actions that you will take to improve your communication skills while on your internship.
I personally am not very good at communicating, although, but I still can get my point across. I can only can have a full conversation with either my family or friends. I think I’m good at making people laugh, but that side only comes out with my family and friends because I feel like they won’t judge me if I say something stupid. I mostly am able to start a conversation with people, when I become comfortable around them. This also applies in class especially when I was in high school. I would only speak in front of the class when I was comfortable around the teacher that would help me out a lot.
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I developed effective communication and interpersonal skills. Open, honest and diplomatic communication helps me to establish relationships with students, parents and co-workers. As an advocate for students, with a special interest in students with disabilities, I have collaborated with families, as well as, school and district special education personnel to provide quality instruction to students with special needs.
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Talking to people used to make me incredibly nervous and never even wanted to ask questions in class for fear I would sound stupid. Over time the more I spent in school the more people skills came naturally to me. My clubs helped a lot in that regard, making me talk to complete strangers to recruit them. Just conversing with my friends and other kids at school everyday built up my confidence slowly. I started to fall back into my humor, making jokes to get to know someone and getting them to laugh. It's helped me grow into the person I am today, confident and funny.
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My painfully shy personality has always tended to be a burden. It has held me back from completing the simplest of tasks such as speaking out in class, sharing my own thoughts and it has even held me back from getting what I want. The reason for this was that I believed it was simpler to just say “I don't know” than to be scrutinized or judged for my beliefs. Consistently being held back by my modest character restrained me from having my own voice and that is something that took a while for me to realize.
Mark, I have read over your response and see your standpoint on the topic for this week. I can also understand why you would respond the way you did because social skills are import for people as well as skills needed in the work place. There are many things during the work day that needs to be communicated between one another to get things completed. That being said in today’s time people are using other forms of communication in and out of the workplace more than ever before. This includes emailing, texting, and phone messages.