Having a strong interpersonal communication competence is a very valuable asset to have when interacting in one’s everyday life. Without a strong competence, one would expect to have trouble adapting to others, managing conversations, being involved in conversations, being empathetic towards others, being effective when conversing, and even being appropriate during interpersonal communication; therefore, as previously stated, it is a necessity to have strong interpersonal communication competence skills. I would say that my competence in interpersonal communication is very strong as I am able to be involved and appropriate in conversations. My strongest assets within communication are conversational involvement and appropriateness with a score
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Effectiveness is described as one’s ability to achieve the objectives one has in their conversation (Monahan, 2016). Effectiveness is arguably one of the most important assets within interpersonal communication because if the point of the conversation is to get an idea across or even to get something done and the communicator is not effective, then nothing will be done and the purpose of the conversation will not be achieved. My score on effectiveness within interpersonal communication is tied for the lowest of my scores at a score of ten. Because my score is low, I need to improve on my effectiveness by knowing how to achieve the goal I have in a conversation. The fourteenth point on page twenty-five of the workbook states, “Once I set an interpersonal goal for myself, I know the steps to take to achieve it.” My self-assessment on this point was scored as a two because I generally do not know the steps in order to achieve a goal from a conversation which leads to not being as effective as I should be in a given conversation. For example, a few days ago I was speaking with a group of fraternity brothers on what I would like to do as philanthropy chair this semester and I was unable to efficiently get my point across for what I wanted to do because I didn’t know the steps on how to approach this group of people in which I was …show more content…
According to the workbook, adaptability is one’s, “ability to change behaviors and goals to meet the needs of the interaction, also known as ‘flexibility’” (Monahan, 2016). This is, in my opinion, one of the most important assets within conversational skills. People need this skill when having a conversation or even when considering plans in conversation. If someone does not have flexibility, then they are seen to be somewhat selfish. It honestly surprises me that I scored so poorly on this category because I would have thought that my level on this was fairly high. I am usually able to change the topic pretty well when I need to in conversation. For example, when I was talking to one of my best friend’s about how her family was doing I brought up one of her family members who is having great difficulties right now. With it being a soft topic for her, I was able to change the conversation pretty quickly when I realized it was heading in a direction of something that I knew she would not want to talk about, even with me. The point that I scored so poorly on within this section was the one that said, “I want to adapt my communication behavior to meet other’s expectations.” I believe that I do not typically adapt my behavior very well if I am upset or disappointed during a conversation
Effectiveness is described as one’s ability to achieve the objectives one has in their conversation (Monahan, 2016). Effectiveness is arguably one of the most important assets within interpersonal communication because if the point of the conversation is to get an idea across or even to get something done and the communicator is not effective, then nothing will be done and the purpose of the conversation will not be achieved. My score on effectiveness within interpersonal communication is tied for the lowest of my scores at a score of ten. Because my score is low, I need to improve on my effectiveness by knowing how to achieve the goal I have in a conversation. The fourteenth point on page twenty-five of the workbook states, “Once I set an interpersonal goal for myself, I know the steps to take to achieve it.” My self-assessment on this point was scored as a two because I generally do not know the steps in order to achieve a goal from a conversation which leads to not being as effective as I should be in a given conversation. For example, a few days ago I was speaking with a group of fraternity brothers on what I would like to do as philanthropy chair this semester and I was unable to efficiently get my point across for what I wanted to do because I didn’t know the steps on how to approach this group of people in which I was …show more content…
According to the workbook, adaptability is one’s, “ability to change behaviors and goals to meet the needs of the interaction, also known as ‘flexibility’” (Monahan, 2016). This is, in my opinion, one of the most important assets within conversational skills. People need this skill when having a conversation or even when considering plans in conversation. If someone does not have flexibility, then they are seen to be somewhat selfish. It honestly surprises me that I scored so poorly on this category because I would have thought that my level on this was fairly high. I am usually able to change the topic pretty well when I need to in conversation. For example, when I was talking to one of my best friend’s about how her family was doing I brought up one of her family members who is having great difficulties right now. With it being a soft topic for her, I was able to change the conversation pretty quickly when I realized it was heading in a direction of something that I knew she would not want to talk about, even with me. The point that I scored so poorly on within this section was the one that said, “I want to adapt my communication behavior to meet other’s expectations.” I believe that I do not typically adapt my behavior very well if I am upset or disappointed during a conversation