In this essay, I will be evaluating my own interpersonal communication skills in a group project. The aim of this group project was to produce a presentation of a lab report on a study we did as a group. My group for the presentation consisted of four students from the University of Chichester between the ages of 19 and 26. In this report, I will refer to the other group members by their initials (MS, CW, and LR).
I will be comparing my communication to Trenholm and Jensen’s competence model (2009). For example, at the beginning of the module, I was very good at role competence, as I tend to take charge of the group and everyone else follows my lead to a certain extent. This was also true of the group project, as I wrote the content of the slides and wrote up the bullet points for what everyone had to say on each slide.
Because I knew my role in the group, I was also good at self-competence, I knew the image I wanted to put across and made sure that everyone was ok with me organising most of the presentation, as I knew that it would work a lot better if everyone was happy with me in that role (Brilhart and Galanes 1998). However, I recognise that my message competence needed work, I often had difficulties finding the right words to get my meaning across to people …show more content…
However, I discovered, during the course of this project, that my interpretive competence still needs work, and I intend to improve on it by putting myself in more situations where I have to present to people, because one way of improving interpretive competence is by experiencing similar situations and learning to pick out the correct clues. Interpretive competence is important in everyday life because if we do not know which clues are important when interacting with people, we may appear insensitive or give the wrong impression of
I will be comparing my communication to Trenholm and Jensen’s competence model (2009). For example, at the beginning of the module, I was very good at role competence, as I tend to take charge of the group and everyone else follows my lead to a certain extent. This was also true of the group project, as I wrote the content of the slides and wrote up the bullet points for what everyone had to say on each slide.
Because I knew my role in the group, I was also good at self-competence, I knew the image I wanted to put across and made sure that everyone was ok with me organising most of the presentation, as I knew that it would work a lot better if everyone was happy with me in that role (Brilhart and Galanes 1998). However, I recognise that my message competence needed work, I often had difficulties finding the right words to get my meaning across to people …show more content…
However, I discovered, during the course of this project, that my interpretive competence still needs work, and I intend to improve on it by putting myself in more situations where I have to present to people, because one way of improving interpretive competence is by experiencing similar situations and learning to pick out the correct clues. Interpretive competence is important in everyday life because if we do not know which clues are important when interacting with people, we may appear insensitive or give the wrong impression of