Communication

Assignment #5

Week of September 19th

"The Importance of Communication"


Communication is the key to all success; in your relationships,  in the workplace and across your lifetime. Your ability to communicate comes from experience, and experience can come in many forms. For example, a person can communicate verbally with sound or that person can communicate non-verbally using facial expressions and body language. There are other like the following: aural(listening), visual(pictures, symbols, signs), and written(journals, emails, blogs, and text messages).  There are different forms of communication because everyone functions differently, so each person is more comfortable communicating in his or her own way. Let's say that a person who is deaf is working at a business. How would this person communicate? This person could communicate by listening aurally and responding non-verbally with hand signs. The person is using a comfortable communicative strategy that will help them share their ideas. 

Certain jobs might require that an employee should the skill of being able to write blogs or journals. So in this case, an employee needs to be able to acquire the skill of communicating to whoever the audience is without being face to face. They need to be able to grasp the audience in the writing, so that a point or a main idea can get through. Communication represents you and your employer. 

There are communicative expectations for friends, family and your employer. Everyone is most comfortable with their friends and family, so there is no expectations of you having to be proper or what not. The case is different for some people. With your friends, you can communicate by sending a quick text messaging saying you want to go eat out or to go watch a movie. Because they are used to how you usually communicate with them, the point gets across. Some friends also love the idea of using facial expressions without using words. It makes them feel closer in a way. You are usually the most comfortable with your family. You grew up with them, and basically lived your whole life with them. So you know exactly how to communicate to get a point across. The difference between your friends and family is that there are certain things you say or do with your friends that would not be appropriate or okay to say or do with your family. 

Lastly, when I am at my work place or wherever, I will consider being more open to sharing my ideas with my mentors. This way I can show them that I have been listening. I will also consider using eye contact, so that I can also show that I am listening.