• Please reflect this week on your communication journey. In week 1, you rated your communication skills. Take the scale below and rate yourself now:
  • Novice: You tend to "wing it" when communicating. Your messages seldom achieve your desired goals.
  • Intermediate: Your communications are sometimes effective, but you lack an established process for communicating (and you aren't actively testing your methods).
  • Proficient: You apply some tools and techniques of communications and, while you may do so inconsistently, you are fairly effective when you communicate.
  • Distinguished: You are considered highly professional. You regularly influence outcomes through communications and you are highly communications-oriented.
  • Expert: You have extensive experience in business communications, are well-versed in the topic, and can influence goals strategically while driving action with your messaging.
• Explain how good communication and writing can help your career and your life

 

A discussion on communication skills

            With no question, having good communication skills can be used as an essential tool when it comes to critically understanding information that allows the development of knowledge, as well as relationships with others to grow and foster as a whole. In this case,  I consider myself as a distinguished speaker primarily because this communication journey served as a channel for me to gain a higher level of expertise in terms of communicating with other people. Having a distinguished skill aids in assisting me to exercise quality communication and gives me the ability to perform better and be productive in different environments, therefore, establishing myself as an effective communicator.

            Having strong communication and writing skills can personally help in my career as the path that I am currently taking requires creating meaningful information that involves several decision-making tasks.  As I am a Business Administration concentrating in Accounting, effective communication is crucial in order to ensure and establish efficiency and morale within the workplace. Further, accounting information is a process that needs to be understood in order for information to make sense and be significant.

            Not only will it be beneficial to my career, but it will also be helpful in life. For instance, having the ability to effectively communicate will give me the opportunity to build close interactions with people who come from different walks of life. Hence, if I maintain this particular rating of myself,  I will be able to cultivate a trait that is more understanding, critical, and productive. Overall, communication serves as an imperative channel in terms of gaining valuable information as it facilitates the exchange of knowledge and ideas that are beneficial to the people we are communicating with.