Effective Communication Analysis

Our human interpersonal communication skills are important to personal and professional growth. The course of interpersonal communication is outlined to make us aware of our existing skills, thus improves our understanding of the human communication both in personal and professional levels. My self-assessment will reflect on my strength and weaknesses, describe my communication style and behavior, and determine the importance of effective communication for my chosen career.

According to Melissa Fabello effective communication is hard. After reading her article I have to say that she is right, not a lot of people know how to communicate effectively. Expressing feelings enables us to think through and move on from troubling negative emotions.

There is an abundance of communication skill training in the marketplace. How can you choose the best communication technique for you? Effective communication methods consistently have certain underlying characteristics. Whether that is a conscious choice or not (I believe some programs touch on cornerstone principles by accident), basic principles matter. While we are all unique, we still manage to have our own style of communicating. The best communication skill training courses rise to the top when put to the test of: Does it Work?

If the workplace is striving to continue to be successful, our greatest opportunity lies in the ability to effectively communicate. Keeping in mind, that our personal success relies heavily on our communication skills. It is written, that employers seek applicants who can work together and able to effectively communicate (Adler, 2013). As I review my organizations job postings, I discover that eighty percent or more list the ability to communicate verbally and written. After having the opportunity to assist in writing the job qualifications for positions within my service center, we administered a written test, typing and reading test. Our goal was to get as many qualified applicants who demonstrated the ability to effectively communicate and

As we learned in class, there is no single effective way to communicate; however, there are different strengths that someone can naturally have or acquire through practice (Adler, Rosenfield, & Proctor, 2015) . A strength that I believe I possess is being able to communicate well with different people in various situations. Sarah Beth is a girl in my church who is my age, and she has Down syndrome. Sarah Beth is highly functional, and she has contagious energy. Because Sarah Beth has Down syndrome, one has to speak a little more descriptively and a little less complicated to communicate well with her. Whenever I see Sarah Beth, she raises her hand to give me a high-five and she asks me about my boyfriend. Although I love seeing Sarah Beth

For setting aside the time to speak with me, even if our conversations tend to occur sporadically and go on for hours at a time. I have learned so much from you: from self-confidence and assurance to who I am as a person and what that means for my view of the world. It may not seem like it, but I have grown so much within the almost six months (whoa) we have communicated and worked together. You give wonderful advice and never make me feel less than worthy of being here working alongside all of you amazingly talented and intelligent people. You have gotten to know me so well that, I don’t know if you have even noticed, you

To paraphrase Shakespeare “How do I fail to communicate, let me count the ways.” The easy part would be listing all my possible communication shortcomings. A more difficult challenge was deciding which one I should write about, luckily, I only have to present one.

A time I've experienced bad communication was when I worked at Regal two years ago, it was the first month I've been there and I was just learning how to operate all the equipment but I was never shown how to operate the popcorn machine. One night I was working with one other girl and my one manager who stayed in her office. My co-worker had to go on her break and she told me she would see me in 45 minuets when she would be back from her break. She tended to forget to tell me anything else and left. I than suddenly started to see a lot of smoke coming out of the popcorn machine and a horrendous smell of burnt popcorn which filled the whole theater and made the whole main area with a lot of smoke. My manager than ran out of office because she

The problem being addressed in this paper is the lack of effective communication and collaboration in the decision-making process in post-secondary education. The lack of cooperation attributes to ineffectiveness in institutions and restricts appropriate changes among departments. This is a problem because it is important to have key departments leaders in the conversation who are willing to work toward efficient business processes, and those dedicated to collaboration (Berg, Kraemer, Raatz, & Devoti, 2009). This problem is important because a hierarchical system, inter-department silos, bureaucracy and an unwillingness to compromise limits negotiations to share work and improve relationships (Kanter, 1994; Senge, 1990). This subject is worth

Every day I face obstacles in communication and especially when trying to effectively express my emotions. My two year old has a heart condition. That means strict schedule, making sure she does not exert too much energy, or get overly hot. All these things can affect her heart rate. While some of my friends and family understand our strict schedule of nap time and bed time along with other restrictions others do not. I have had to explain why these conditions are set and why it is so important to keep with them. It is not because of what I want but it is protecting my daughter’s best interest. I sometimes get emotional and overwhelmed when they just keep pushing. However, after explaining all the reasons why we need to keep to our schedule people are a little more understanding.

I first started to really indulge in the idea of perusing a degree in communications after taking a summer class at the College of DuPage (com 101) this class was extremely eye opening because we often discussed the way in which people communicate with one another. I liked how the class was not just a speech class, it dove into the way in which people communicate. More specifically what is effective in communicating and what is not effective in communicating.

The whole situation happened when I looked at my schedule on January 3rd, 2016 and noticed that I was working from 8:00am-10:30am on January 7th, 2016 on a Thursday. It was bizarre how I was scheduled to work two and a half hours since I have not been scheduled to work that short amount of time in over a year. Nevertheless, I was not disappointed because I was busy that day. On January 6th, 2016, I double checked the schedule in the crew room to see what time I work on January 7th, 2016 just to be sure and it showed from 8:00am-10:30am again, so I am one hundred percent sure that this was what the schedule showed in the crew room. Furthermore, on January 7th, 2016, I clocked in at 8:00am, and later on I had break around 10:00am. I came back to the kitchen to return to the kitchen so I could start working on the switch from breakfast to lunch. At this time I noticed that we now a manager in the kitchen. It was not that busy at the time so there was a bit of time for conversation while still working. As

Place a checkmark next to those skills that you feel you need to work on.

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.

Communication is a key ingredient of development and social life. Satell (2015) posits that communication is the modern-day’s most important skill. Like other aspects of personal development such as self-awareness, acquisition of effective communication skills is a long-term process. Also, communication refers to the art of conveying our thoughts, feelings and ideas to others through a medium. Flashing back to my younger years informs me that I have continuously acquired excellent communication skills with time and practice. This is evidenced by my improved interpersonal relationships with my friends, classmates and family members as well as strangers.