Interpersonal communication skills are essential for survival. These skills and abilities help us provide for ourselves physically, emotionally, and socially. Interpersonal competency levels vary from person to person. The key to thriving, rather than surviving, is improving your interpersonal communication competency. There are six categories of interpersonal communication competency: adaptability, conversational involvement, conversation management, empathy, effectiveness, and appropriateness. Revealed in the following pages, are my self assessments in those six categories. I will reflect on my strengths and weaknesses, while also providing examples of how these skills have played out in my own life. Through this paper, I hope to become more …show more content…
I am a more appropriate communicator in college than I was in grade school. When I was younger, I always had my cell phone in my line of sight. I even looked at it in the middle of someone trying to have a conversation with me. I was completely oblivious to how rude and inappropriate I was. When I was out with a new friend, I would check my phone during those awkward silences, rather than striking up a new conversation topic. A friend pointed my behavior out and was annoyed that I kept looking at my phone. She was upset, because she felt as though I did not care about her. Since then, I have always tried to be aware of how I am being perceived by others when I use my phone. I know now checking my phone, or even having it out, relays the message that what is on my phone is more important than the person I am hanging out with. It is easy to make that internal attribution error about people who are attached at the hip to their cellular devices. I avoid people perceiving me that way by putting my phone away when I am having out with someone. Because I am aware, I can be a more appropriate communicator than …show more content…
I feel that I am an ethical communicator in all situations. I try my best not to tell people what to do, because I am not qualified for that. I think that people are capable of coming up with decisions about their lives. I am not the expert on others lives, but I can help them identify their values then encourage them to make their own decisions based on that. I am very trustworthy and keep people’s struggles confidential— only discussing their issues between the two of us. For instance, one of my close friends in high school told me he was gay and was scared to let anyone find out. He struggled a lot with whether or not to make his sexual orientation public. He confided in me, because he trusted me. I kept our conversations secret, and allowed him to unload his burdens onto me. Even though my beliefs did not match his choices, I remained unbiased and did not judge him. This kept our communication and relationship open, and he felt comfortable being transparent with me. We were very honest with each other. I encouraged him to search himself and weigh his options. He decided he valued being open and honest about himself, rather than keeping on the public mask he created. Towards the end of our senior year, he asked his favorite teacher if he could “come out” during class. He asked my friend and I to play “Born this Way” by Lady Gaga, his idol, when
In every society nonverbal communication is one of the most powerful tools that a person can use to interpret the message that is being delivered. Even though verbal communication is fairly straightforward, nonverbal communication allows others to sense the true emotions of the person that is expressing them. For example even though a person may say that they are not irritated, their usage of voice may display otherwise. Nonverbal communication not only reveals hidden messages, but it also complements, substitutes, and exaggerates verbal communication.
Steve A. Beebe, S. J. (2008). Interpersonal Communication. In A. a. Pearson, Interpersonal Communication, Relating To Others- Fifth Edition. Toronto, Ontario: Pearson Education, Inc.
Recently, regardless of how good technologies are nowadays, how modern the universe can be using the creativeness and intelligence of human’s mind, we must always not forget to communicate with one another every day. Communication is define as the act of transferring information from one place to another. It may be in a form of vocally, written, visually or non-verbally (skillsyouneed.com, 2017). As for me, the ability to communicate effectively is the most importance of all life skills. This is what I have been struggling in my daily routine life as an international student here in Dublin, Ireland. Back in Malaysia, my first language is Malay, but when I came here for the first time, I found it quite difficult as English is not
This reflective essay has critically reviewed my personal and professional skills that are essential for communication and developing positive relationships with others. It has discussed the skills identified in the skills audit that I needed more confidence in for communication and effective relationships. It has finally linked two communication theories to both skills
The need for interpersonal communication across all human endeavors is growing especially in the context of
Floyd, Kory. Interpersonal Communication: The Whole Story. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 140. Print.
During the course of this semester; the variety of writing styles and essays assigned to me in my communication skills class encouraged the development of my writing skills, as well as provided me with more self-assurance in my abilities. My writing, research, and presentation abilities enhanced through practice, determination, and the understanding I gained during this course. With every single writing assignment, I learned new innovative approaches and skills, which enhanced my abilities to improve my thoughts logically, enabling me to write more clearly, and to organize my papers more effectively. At the beginning of this semester; despite the fact that I already knew the terminology MAP: message, audience, purpose; I never really understood the significance of MAP. For this reason, my writing lacked clarity, organization, and my writings appeared less focused on the topics. As a result my research papers and essays did not flow as smoothly from one passage to the next. Furthermore, I was unaccustomed with the precise procedures used when writing an essay. For instance, my previous classes before college, although requiring a reference page, did not require me to include proper citations in my writings. After evaluating the quality of my writing toward the end of the semester, I recognized vast improvements in several areas of my writing. By concentrating on the beginning stages of my writings, I could distinguish ahead of time my audience and my message. As a result, my essays are clear, and I remain on topic. In addition to that using transition phrases efficiently also helps my writing to flow smoothly. The proper use of transitions makes my writings easy to follow from one topic to the next. I also learned that pre-writing...
Do you realize how much you use your phone? And how phones affect your social life? Cell Phones affect society in good and bad ways. It's impossible to imagine a time when there were no phones, which was a long time ago. During 1983 the first phone was made, it took 10 hours to charge the battery. Before smartphone were invented. We even have portable chargers now. No one could imagine life without phones. Weather your checking twitter or texting a friend. Everyone likes to talk, listen and learn about new things. Todd Stark weather said “It’s up to the student whether or not they choose to spend class time listening and learning, or wasting their time on the phone.”
The purpose of this paper is not to teach you, or to show you how interpersonal communication is essential to everyday life at home or work. But, I am going to do my best to at least show you how essential communication skills are in all areas of life by using me as the example. My plan is to focus on some of the elements of interpersonal communication that we have been touching on this semester. While reading our Interpersonal Communications Book, three goals kept being highlighted that I personally wanted to accomplish by the end of course. I’m sure that by now have noticed that I keep referring to my topics as goals. The reason why I’m doing so is because I’m still on that learning curve…an ongoing process. If can recall back to all of our assignment in this course they all bring one collective point. That point is that, Interpersonal communication is an essential skill in everything that we do in life.
Lots of people thinks that they know themselves very well; they have a right way of communication, they know how to listen and respond to others, even emotional intelligence. Is this what you thought? I did. However after I have done my observe behavior interview to my friends, I believe that self-reflection is important to everyone to understand and improve our own communication styles.
... Communication is one of the most intricate and under looked areas of human beings. By completing this assignment I learned a great detail about my self and how others perceive me. Though I do feel that I am an a good communicator I now realize what aspects of my communications skills that I need to fix the problem. The areas I would like to change are to try to be more open with others.
In this era, communicating via text is a huge part of a student’s life. As I walk around on campus, I observe everyone holding a cell phone if not texting/communicating on it. For the most part, its irritating to see someone engulfed so much into his/her phone to the point of accidentally bumping into someone else, crossing the street without looking, and even students while in class, have the audacity to utilize his/her phone texting whomever in the presence of the educator. Ugh! What is our society coming to? Students consistently not giving his/her undivided attention to a specific person, event, or situation is not condusive to any type of situation especially in the classroom.
Interpersonal communication is one of the significant skills while communicating with other individuals. It normally covers an extensive area and includes both verbal and non-verbal communication. Body language and facial expression may affect the accurateness of the message transmission directly. Interpersonal communication skills normally ensure that the message is sent and received correctly without any alteration thus improving the communication efficiency. Learning diverse aspects of interpersonal communication has greatly aided me in better understanding of what it consists. I am capable of applying the knowledge gained from this course to my personal experiences. This paper reflects on my personal experience in learning interpersonal communication.
As an Eastern Michigan University student, I originally chose to take Interpersonal Communication to fill my general education requirements. However, sitting in the lectures and group sessions for the past few weeks made me realize theirs is more meaning to this class than just a few credits. Interpersonal Communications class is a chance to improve myself while enhancing my communication skills. Now I’ve focused my efforts in this class to goals set for myself and not just a good grade. I hope to learn more about how I communicate with myself and others, improve my openness with others, and improve my relationships with friends and family after taking Interpersonal Communications.
The presence, or absence, of skills that relate to communication with oneself (intrapersonal communication) are critical influencers of many other aspects of oneself (Beebe, 2015). In particular, one’s intrapersonal communication impresses on one’s intrapersonal communication: mutual communication between yourself and at least one other (Beebe, 2015). The relationship between these two types of communication is complex and worth exploring. Using examples from seminar and my own life, in this paper, I will analyze my own self-concept and perception, and relate my intrapersonal communication skills to their effects on my interpersonal communication skills. I