Importance Of Communication Skills In The American Workforce

Learning had been widely discussed among the researchers. It had become the subject matter that interests psychologists, educationists, scientists and came up with a number of learning theories. There are many different theories that attempt to describe the learning process. The theorists came out with some methods and approaches to be applied in the language teaching in the classroom. Approaches consist of specific principles in the language teaching and to apply these approaches, methods are needed which include various procedures and techniques. In this coursework, I would discuss on two theories, methods and approaches, two of their strength and limitations. In addition, I would further discuss on the implementation of one of the theories in the English language classroom.

Teachers positively affect young minds. One of the greatest achievements a teacher can experience is watching all students, including Enlgish Language Learners, expand their knowledge to their full potential. I want to become a teacher because I want to make a positive impact on a person’s life. Once, I obtain my own classroom, I know that not all students will know how to speak English, therefore as a teacher I plan on using various tips and methods in order to teach them English.

Before taking any courses, this student had a general idea of how communication is an essential component in any working environment. After taking many courses in the Polk State Bachelor's program, the course GEB 3213 (Advanced Communications in Business) was a course that enlightened this student on the essential skills and concepts that are necessary to know when working in a professional environment. This course taught this student how to be able to structure business communications for maximum effect through style, tone, and grammar, how to comprehend the strategies used to construct the types of business messages commonly used in the business environment, for example, like how to write a professional email. Also this course taught this student how to effectively research and organize information into effective business reports and visual presentations. Not only did this course set this student up for a bright future in the business world through means of communication, but this course also helped this student's writing when it came to completing the rest of her bachelors courses in the this program. The knowledge and skills that this student learned in this course will be essential key components that are necessary to have when working in a professional corporate

Four in five employers stated that they would be more likely to consider an individual as a job candidate if he or she had completed multiple courses that required a great amount of writing assignments (Hanover Research 2016). More than two-thirds of employers indicate that requiring students to complete courses with applied learning projects would improve the quality of learning and the quality of preparation for their targeted career (Hanover Research 2016). The importance of writing skills in a workplace falls into three categories, professional, communication, and credibility. Professionally good writing skills are important when the selected job involves writing, for example, paralegal or journalist (Hanover Research 2016). These professionals must have great writing skills to do their jobs, but recently more professionals are required to have good writing skills than just those careers associated with writing (Hanover Research 2016). If the profession requires any written communication, the employer views writing as a needed and valuable skill (Hanover Research 2016). Two-thirds of employees in large companies have the responsibility of writing at some point and need to be good at writing to succeed and half of all companies consider writing skills when deciding promotions (Hanover Research 2016). Communication is the next category and is extremely important because an individual cannot be successful without some form of communication. In just about any career a person could acquire communication will occur whether it be an email, notes, letters, text, memo, presentation, or reports (Hanover Research 2016). If a person does not possess good writing skills any form of communication will be ineffective and in the end effecting the company’s productivity. The last category is credibility because people view individuals as more credible when they have good writing skills (Hanover Research 2016). If an

Communication competence is the first thing every new group member should understand before beginning a group project. Communication competence is “considered very broadly as an impression that behavior is appropriate and effective in a given context” (Spitzberg, 2000). This includes being effective by having a wide range of behaviors and being in the “we”, not “me” mentality, being appropriate by complying with the group rules, have the knowledge to learn the rules and know how to be a proper asset in your group, having empathy or being sensitive towards your group members, staying committed to your group, and lastly being ethical. Our groups communication was very competent. When it came to group decision making, there was no hint of individuality, none of the members had a me mentality, but instead we all as a group put what we wanted aside to agree on a board game that would be the most appropriate for the assignment. For example, I wanted to play poker instead of monopoly but due to the fact that I was the only one in our group that knew how to play poker I quickly agreed with monopoly. Furthermore, all the group members showed commitment, and ethics. Many of us had a busy week schedule to include work and other classes so when we were able to settle on a time and date for a meeting everyone stayed committed to the schedule and arrived on time. While we had these group meetings and game nights everyone in the group was respectful towards each other by not making any rude remarks or aggressiveness when there was disagreement and being responsible by not attempting to cheat to win

Communication is very important to have in our everyday life. Without communication, there would be no relationships among people. When having a meeting of any sort, communication is the most effective way to get your thoughts and ideas across to people. I want to provide an observation of a meeting that I attended, where communication within the group was evaluated.

In today’s business world, effective communication skills play a significant role in problem-solving, increasing productivity and developing strong relationships in the workplace. In this article “The Dullest, Most Vital Skill You Need to Become a Successful Manager”, Walter Chen argues that how a basic ability like writing is overlooked in many times. Chen claims that in order to become “a highly effective and successful manager”, the person should know the principal rules of writing effectively and concisely because only then the manager would have distinct impression towards his entire team (Chen).

Sometimes more than one method is used to bring out the anticipated outcomes in the language classroom where communication develops the key factor of teaching-learning process. Unless students learn to utilise the classroom method to express thoughts and feelings outside into the real world situations, the learning cannot be effective no matter whatever teaching method is applied in English as a Second Language classroom. Teacher- student role becomes the centre in bringing out the maximum within the limited time in a

It is time to learn effective strategies for learning English as a second language acquisition. It is important to know that there are some learning strategies to help students how to learn English. Those strategies are learning English by the use of the internet and learning English in a classroom. But there are some students that do not have success on learning English and there are some questions about it: Why some students are not successful English learner? Is it effective to learn English by the use of the Internet? Is it effective to learn English in a classroom? Those questions will be discussed in this essay.

This essay describes how poorly written communication can lead to misunderstanding and a possible loss of business. Through this paper the author wants to persuade the employer to sponsor a workshop for all employees to improve their writing skills, to increase business communications and to avoid arguments through poor communication. This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of writing skills and why business communication is important in any kind of business. What can your business achieve with good writing skills and what it the impact of good writing skills on business.

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The American Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills report (SCANS, 1992) identified interpersonal skills and basic communication skills, including speaking and listening, as two of eight essential competencies necessary for success in the workplace. Interpersonal skills were defined as the ability to work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and work well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Subsequently, North and Worth (2004) found that interpersonal skills were the most frequently mentioned competency required in entry level job ads from newspapers in 10 metropolitan areas. Eighty percent of ads noted that candidates should have strong interpersonal skills. Similarly, they found 49% of entry-level advertisement included requirements for basic skills related to communication, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Further evidence suggests that employers in all occupational fields place greater value on employees’ communication skills than they do on their technical skills (California State University, 2000; McPherson, 1998; Maes, Weldy & Icenogle, 1997; Reinsch & Shelby, 1997, 1996; Plutsky, 1996). Several studies have found correlations between employees’ communication skills and supervisors’ perceptions of job performance (Maes, Weldy, & Icenogle, 1997; Scudder & Guinan, 1989). Oral communication is consistently identified both as the

These factors have been included in the book where the chronological order of such elements based on their difficulty provides a smooth and proper understanding of mastering The English language for both learners and teachers. It is for these reasons that the following essay seeks to emphasis the fact that 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners provides the basis through which English language learners can empirically apply classroom work and become masters of this language. It is one of the few exceptional texts available, which offers practical application of classrooms English lessons and therefore making learners well equipped in this language.

English language teaching is really a big challenge for teachers as it is difficult for them to instruct each learner or student to use the target language. This has become a real problem for teachers and students. This study is about the effect of pair and group work of improving the students speaking performance. According to “Gabriela Bunga Pramudhita (2008); it is very difficult for the teacher to make an effective class”. In this regard, there must be motivation which can be from both teachers and students. The problems in performing this really exist from the using and applying certain approaches by teacher who must know well which approach he must use according to the need of his students. In Saudi Arabia, students tend to be passive; therefore, the teacher should have a skill of forming and creating fun and good atmosphere in the class, so that he can prevent the students from tiredness and boredom. It is actually being better for the teacher not to use the way of lecturing; instead he has to use the way of interacting and participating with

There has been an ongoing debate about the importance of the English language. Employers are lamenting that new graduates these days lack communicative proficiency in English. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors which contribute to English proficiency in Chinese students in Johor Bahru. Investigating the factors that contribute to English proficiency might partially explain the occurrence of underachievement in the learning