Being competent in interpersonal communication is one of the most vital skills to have not only in the professional world, but also in everyday life. By being competent in interpersonal communication, a person is able to effectively communicate with other people, enabling them to build better relationships with the people they surround themselves with. In order to be considered competent, one has to be able to be appropriate, effective, adaptable, involved, managing the conversation, and using empathy. Each of these skills helps to create enjoyable conversations for all parties involved. When ranking myself, I found that I am mostly competent in interpersonal communication, but could work on improving my effectiveness and involvement in …show more content…
In order to improve my social effectiveness, I think I need to be more confident in my ideas and present them in a way that they come forward as well thought out and well backed. To me, being appropriate means knowing who you are speaking to and gauging how to speak to them in a suitable and respectable manor. For appropriateness, I scored a 15. In order to demonstrate how I use appropriateness in interpersonal communication, I have found two scenarios that have happened in my life. The first one was when I was going in for a business meeting for a project that I was working on at the time. When going to this meeting, I made sure to dress up and when I spoke to the head of the committee, I ensured that my language was respectful towards him. For example, I used “sir” when addressing him and shook his hand when I walked into the room. Due to this, meeting went well and he treated me very professionally. However, when I am hanging out with my friends, I wear clothes that make me feel comfortable and we do not address each other with words such as “sir” and “ma’am”. Due to the way we communicate with each other, the environment we create is very relaxed. These examples show how I am capable of using appropriateness in conversation with others by being able to gauge when I need to behave very professionally or when I am able to relax and be around my friends. Another dimension I
Competence in interpersonal communication can be assessed both through general interpersonal interactions and non-verbal communication. Both general competence and non-verbal competence are very important to the way that we communicate and have great influence on the message that we relay to those with whom we communicate. After watching the conversation recorded between Matt and I, I have realized that although there are some areas in which I am a competent communicator, there are areas where I could benefit to improve.
If you accept yourself as you are, you will be more likely to accept others as they are. If you can admit and forgive yourself for mistakes, you will be more likely to allow others to make mistakes and to forgive them as well.”(Sole, K. 2011 Making connections: Understanding interpersonal communication. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (https://content.ashford.edu). The next thing that we can do is practice our skills.” Finally, to improve your intrapersonal communication, you must practice the communication skills you have learned in this course. Participating fully in the course discussions, completing the exercises and activities in this text, and employing the tools you have acquired can help you take your communication skills to the next level.”(Sole, K. 2011).Making connections: Understanding interpersonal communication. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. (https://content.ashford.edu). If I apply this skills that I have learn in these chapters to my everyday life, and try to get my fiancé to apply theses skills we both will improve our communication skills with each other and other.
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.
Before this communications class I knew that I had strengths and weaknesses in my communication, but I did not know what areas I was effective and ineffective in. From my scores from the Interpersonal Competency Scale test, I was able to reflect upon which areas I strive in and which areas need more practice and attention in everyday conversation. In brief, I excel in empathy and appropriateness, and struggle with effectiveness, adaptability, and conversational management. From these scores I can reflect and analyze how and why I got those scores and what I can do to better my interpersonal communication.
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.
After completing my Mentoring Confidence Inventory, I learned that my lowest score, 18 out of 25, was on the communicating effectively category. I was not surprised on scoring low on this category. Friends and family members often tell me that I need to work better on communicating effectively and listening to other’s perspectives. Under the communicating effectively category, there is a statement claiming, “I have effective listening skills.” I rated myself a 3 out of 5 when reading this. Sometimes when having hot topic discussions with my peers, I react abruptly to something someone has said that I do not agree with. I recognize that this is not a great way to respond and it does not constitute effective listening. I get so caught up in
In every aspect of our daily lives, we need interpersonal skills to communicate and interact with others efficiently. Individuals with excellent interpersonal skills often collaborate well in teams or groups and with other individuals more generally. When interacting with others, interpersonal skills come naturally, yet in some situations, it can also be challenging to communicate with others. According to **** “Through awareness of how you interact with others, and with practice, you can improve your interpersonal skills” (p. ). Therefore, it is vital that individuals occasionally evaluate their communication skills to ensure that they are communicating in writing or speaking effectively. On the Internet, there are multiple communication self-assessment tools to help individuals discover their communication skills strengths and weaknesses, and overall, determine if they are communicating effectively. Describe the assessment you used to analyze your skills.
Being able to communicate effectively with others is an essential quality of everyday life. Having respectable interpersonal skills is a very significant characteristic that people can posses,
Interpersonal skills are what we use every day to communicate and interact with people. Those who have strong interpersonal skills are usually the ones who are the more successful in their professional life and also their social life as they will be easy to understand and will draw people to them through their body language or by their way of speech. Employers look for people with good interpersonal skills because it will mean they will be able to work with others and be able to communicate with customers or clients.
We communicate both nonverbally and verbally with people even if we do not realize it at the time. The way that we communicate with others is important because communication is both irreversible and unrepeatable (Adler et al., 2015). Once a communicative exchange occurs between people it can never be taken back nor replicated. Every exchange that people have is unique based on the environment it occurs in, the noise that is happening both within the sender and the receiver, and even what is going on around the encounter. Competent communication is communication that is both effective and appropriate. Effective communication is when a sender receives the results that he or she was hoping to get after the encounter; whereas, appropriate communication is when a relationship grows because of the exchange that occurred (Adler et al., 2015). There are several different characteristics of communication competence that produce effective communication overall, which include: a large repertoire of skills, adaptability, the ability to perform skills, involvement empathy, cognitive complexity, and
The purpose of the Interpersonal Communication Competence Assessment is to educate individuals on his or her ability to adapt to certain communicative situations across different contexts, utilize conversational skills, manage conversations, empathize with others, speak effectively, and have appropriate conversations. This assessment asked me questions that really allowed me to take a step out of my body and thoroughly examine my communication from the outside in. I learned about the types of communication with which I struggle as well as the ones in which I exceed. It specifically taught me about my lack of conversational management, my expertise with appropriateness, my ability to empathize with others, my room to improve in
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There are basic principles of interpersonal communication that when understood can help an individual be an overall more effective communicator. According to Bevan and Sole (2014) those basic principles are: (1) take responsibility for your communication behavior, (2) remember that communication involves shared meaning, (3) acknowledge that your view of a situation is only one of many views, (4) respect others as well as yourself, (5) listen and evaluate the other person’s statements before responding, (6) practice being a competent communicator (Section 1.4, para. 2). Of all the basic principles, the two that can benefit our agency are: acknowledge that your view of a situation is only one of many views, and take responsibility for your communication behavior. Acknowledge that your view of a situation is only one of many views
First, I agree that I am in middle of communication competence. I get 65 of 90 in inter communication competence. In measuring in this part, if getting higher values, that show one more interpersonal communication competence. In contrast, if one gets low score that mean one is less interpersonal communication competence. There are many ways to get or improve the score or interpersonal communication competence. For example, one should practice self-disclosure skill. when one talk about their personality life, other might feel one very kind to him or her. But I suggest that one should not show their self-disclosure too much because that is for intimating, and if you
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