My Final Reflection: Essential Skills For Business Communication

My Final Reflection Essential Skills for Business Communication helped me to improve my communication skills with others, especially my superiors. No matter how you look at it communication is everywhere, we can’t hide from it. Well, I suppose you could if you never left your house. With different ways to communicate in business, what is the right way to communicate within your workplace and beyond? Looking back to session 1, effective communication skills within organizations can be difficult with each person having different views in their beliefs. It was nice to understand the different ways to communicate in a professional manner in our digital, social, mobile world. In chapter 1, part 1 of Business Communication Today, (13th ed), it speaks about keeping technology in perspective. “Technology is an aid to interpersonal communication, not a replacement for it.” This rings true in today’s society with text messaging, email, and social media. It is important to remember that business communication is …show more content…
This session was near and dear to my heart because in my workplace email and IM is used every day. I learned that proofreading my messages can be done is many different ways. I appreciate table 5.3 in part 2, chapter 5 as it teaches how to weed out obsolete phrases that are dated, such as “attached please find” and “please be advised that”, in the text it states to just say what I need to say. I am one that uses these dated phrases on a daily basis, in emails, and reports. I am now looking at phrasing my messages differently. I tend to go with the “stuffy tone” stated in table 5.2 “finding the right tone” Business Communication Today, (13th ed), subsequently I now rephrase my messages. I never thought of using this type of tone in my messages as “stuffy” but as professional. I am thankful for this