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The Person Who Was Training Me

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When I first started working at TAPCO, I had little to no experience. The woman who was working in this position before me was retiring and the position needed to be filled. I interviewed for the job and in the same day, was hired. During the few days that I was trained, I learned all I could before she left. Figure 8.3 shows the process of communication. The sender encodes the message for the receiver to decode and then gives feedback to the sender. In my case, the woman who was training me was the sender. She had to teach me how to use the software programs and how the employer expects everything to be done. She would tell me to enter “SPR latches” into the “latch” or the “.035 SST Wire” into the “type of wire”. Of course, I was confused because I have never worked in an office or worked with security doors and screens. She had worked for the company for five years and knew every jargon, or specific words, used in the company. She started off by teaching me how to correctly type the production sheets for the purchase orders that would come into the office. Communicating with her in person made it easier to understand what she was saying because I could read her facial expressions and her body language while she was teaching me. She could show me the step-by-step process by pointing to the screen or writing it down for me to understand how she did it. In this case, I am the receiver. I had to decode what she was trying to tell me and give feedback of what I understood. I

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