Despite the fact that communication is very much a part of our everyday lives, it is not always easy. For a number of reasons young people, mostly teenagers, can experience challenges in their communication with peers, parents, teachers and other important people in their lives. Sometimes, just talking through communication problems is very valuable and can benefit you in determining how to make some positive changes. At other times, you might need to do some work on altering the way you communicate by determining different ways to give messages to others, whether it is face-to-face, on the phone, through email, or by text. The goal of this literature review is to examine collected works to provide an overview of communication, including communication styles, types and skills. As well to discuss possible applications of communication as it relates to adolescent development, social skills temperament, and adolescent leadership.
Communication Overview
Communication Styles Communication styles are often a combination of personality fused with what you have learned from those persons in your immediate circle. Everyone is unique and there is a huge range of qualities when it comes to communication. Some people are as you would imagine are more modest than others are- they may have grown up in families that are usually rather quiet. Then again, there are those who are born very talkative and/or they may have grown up around lots of talking or loud conversations. No one way is
Communication can be adapted very easily, usually without you realising. However, the style used can make a big difference, and help build and maintain positive relationships.
Communicating with children and young adults who have communication differences should be approached with care and sensitivity. Some children may find it hard to make friends due to being anxious or have a lack of confidence in speaking out to others; they may have a speech disorder, stammer or a condition which creates communication a problem. How we communicate with children or young adults is by giving them time to think of their answer, let them reply in their own time, and not speak for them or answer the question for them.
Interpersonal Communication Competence is defined as constantly communicating in a way that is effective, appropriate, and ethical (McCornack, 2016). When a person is communicating competently, they are following social norms, are able to accomplish their goals, and treating persons in an unbiased manner. In my paper I will be discussing my own interpersonal communication competence and the evaluations that I, and my close companions, have made about my ability to communicate proficiently. I will begin my essay by explaining what effective and appropriate communication consists of, and follow up with my argument on how effective and appropriate I am in my interpersonal relationships. As I continue I will examine my empathy and why I am strong in this aspect of communication, followed by my deliberation of my conversation management and why I am weak in this category and how I could possibly improve. As I near the conclusion of my paper I will focus on my interpersonal communication motivation, knowledge, and skills. After reporting my scores in each category I will reflect on my skills, my lowest score, and explore why I am poorest at this quality and how I can grow in my capabilities. Overall I am a competent communicator, but enhancements can be made in my conversation management, effectiveness and skills in order to build up my competence.
Edmondson (2009) discusses four different basic communication styles. The first style is expressive which have a tendency to speak quickly, focus on the big picture, and have a high energy level. They can be perceived as unpredictable, vain, or excessively jovial. Next are systematic who tend to focus on small details, not on the larger picture, and try to avoid conflicts. The third type listed is sympathetic. These individuals focus on people and relationships. They are good listeners and so concern for everyone’s needs. Sympathetics also do not like be at odds with others. Lastly, the fourth communication style identified is directs who generally keep dialogue short and are perceived as a multitaskers. The study recommends that the individual discover her own communication style and adjust the style according to the situation.
Being able to communicate effectively with children, young people and adults is vital in order to form positive and professional relationships with them. It can help build self-worth and confidence in a child, young person or adult whilst also promote trust. Effective communication needs to be direct, quick and easily understood by the recipient. If not, it can cause a breakdown in communication leading to misunderstandings and have a negative impact on the relationship between those involved. Communicating in a positive way and getting to know the people involved can be useful in understanding their own individual needs. Some children do not have the same positive relationships at home with family members as they do at school, and so they
Communication as a student is essential to furthering knowledge inside and out of the classroom. As a student, working in groups has allowed for me to build relationships with my classmates while working towards a common goal. I have worked several jobs that required me to communicate with people of all ages. While working at CVS, I have been able to help the elderly find products in the store while building relationships with my regular customers. During the summers, I work as a camp counselor and help the campers feel comfortable during their long weeks without their families.
Doug Fields and Duffy Robbins created this book to help people communicate more clearly to teenagers. The first section was composed of the reasons behind improving communication and why it is important to communicate clearly to teenagers. Ultimately this section was “how to think about effective messages.” Then they went into section two which they explained their method for preparing a message; “S.T.I.C.K.” “S” stood for “Study,” they explained that preparing a message started with studying God’s word first. The next letter, “T,” stood for “Think,” in this chapter, Doug and Duffy explained the importance of thinking about a message throughout a week. After “T” was “I,” which stood for “Illustrate,” in this section they emphasized the importance of being creative to keep students hooked. The “C” stood for construct, so they explained once someone has
As a part of my assignment to identify the styles and different skills of communication by studying Brian Krzanich actions and behaviour. Next part is to perform a critical analysis on the identified communication styles and skills by comparing and contrasting strength, weakness of a selected person.
Communication is an essential thing to everyday life. Communication is required in everything we do. Knowing how to communicate properly will help in many aspects of life like friends
Communication is one of the most important and valuable skills we have developed as human beings. It is the basis for how we connect with each other globally and shape the people we are today. Without effective communication, we would not be able to build productive relationships, express our cultural values, or most importantly, voice our thoughts. As we grow, we learn and develop our unique form of communication. Whether we are strong public speakers or prefer an interpersonal approach, it is important to find what type of communication is best suited for us, so we can appropriately and effectively use communication to our advantage. There are several different aspects that make us effective communicators, and knowing our strengths and weaknesses in theses categories will give us a comparative advantage on how to properly communicate on an interpersonal level. In this paper, I will discover the type of communicator I am, what I am good at, and what I can work on, to become an excellent interpersonal communicator.
Our ability to communicate well with others is important to personal and professional success. The interpersonal communications course is planned to help us in being familiar with the system of effective, and to assess our own interpersonal ability to sharpen our critical understanding of the communication, also to improve the interpersonal skills. Mainly assess our interpersonal skills and to put in goals for improving our communications ability. To development of self-concept and identity are examined as basics for understanding personal communication. We explore our own communication behaviors and to identify areas of personal strengths and
Communication is the way of an adolescent interacting and expressing conversation with another person/persons. Teenagers mainly communicate with others differently, technologically or orally speaking in comparison to the 1980’s and 2011. For example in the 1980’s language was more formal and proper although now there is a huge increase of slang, jargon and word abbreviation, which may be translated within text messages, social networking, Skype and video calls. In the 1980’s the only common reliable forum of commination was the teenager them self. An interview recalled, “ whistling to my friends to come out side and play”, whereas the generation of 2011 is exceedingly dependant on technology on a daily basis.
The article presents the problem with communication with lots of research that has been done in past years. The research data presented was mostly accurate throughout the essay. Another article written by Angle, Moscaritolo state that, “teens sends and receive 60 texts message a day, up from 50 in 2009…” so as the years go by there has been an increase in the use of smartphones. We can be in a family meeting, but more often will find out that teens prefer to “talk” to you by text than having face-to-face
In his research Atilgan Erozkan examined how communication skills and interpersonal problem solving skills effect adolescent’s social self-efficacy, the belief in one’s own abilities. Before the study begins, Erozkan defines how communication, interpersonal relationships, and self-efficacy relate. Communication is a crucial element in forming long-lasting interpersonal relationships, which is an important aspect in adolescents developing positive self-efficacy (Erozkan, 2013). Adolescents begin to acquire life-long interpersonal relationships in high school. The quality of these relationships is highly dependent on the quality of communication that occurs between individuals (Erozkan, 2013). The relationships that adolescents create have a direct impact on their self-efficacy when creating new interpersonal relationships and communicating (Erozkan, 2013). Before Erozkan discusses interpersonal problem solving, the topic of interpersonal competency is outlined. This is because interpersonal competency, the development of communication skills, relies significantly on being able to effectively engage and understand interactions (Erozkan, 2013). If competent communication skills are not further developed than messages being sent during communication can become misunderstood (Erozkan, 2013). Since interpersonal relationships allow people to influence each other any problems that arise can have a profound impact on an individual (Erozkan, 2013). Therefore, Erozkan
This question researchers wanted to know how former trainees present communication skill among to teenagers.