Personal plan for improving your communication abilities
- The Source-Plan communication
When I start communicating with someone, usually in informal oral communication, I can't manage my language properly or sometime I will lose the points of my communication. The good communication is simple and straightforward. Therefore, in order to improve my skills for planning communication, I need start consider and understand.
- The purpose of my communication.
- Who is my audience.
- What I want to say, and how I will send the message.
- Seek feedback on how well of my communication was received, and improve more.
- Encoding-Creating a Clear, Well-Crafted Message
Sometimes, I feel the messages I spoked are clear, but audiences can't understand it. There are several reasons cause my messages are not clear and well-crafted. First, the pronunciation of words, if I can't pronounce words correctly, they will confuse audience for my messages. Second, incorrect words using in oral communication, because English is my second language, therefore some words using in some situations are not correct, but I haven't realised it, which would cause people can't understand my talking.
Thus, to improve my encoding message in communication, there are several tips I can use to help me.
- Understand the informations I truly want to say.
- Improve my oral pronunciation.
- Using simple, common words and body language to improve other people's understanding with my talking.
- Be confidence and brave to show my ideas or message directly, don't assume people can understand my message if I can't say the whole message clearly.
- Choosing the Right Channel
In order to have a good communication, right channel choosing is essential. For instance, if I have negative motions in my messages, it is better for me do not choose Email as channel to transfer my messages, ensure have face-to-face or voice communication. In this part, I know if I choose the Email or texting Message to transfer the messages with negative motion contents, it will confuse people and make people feel you are angry. Therefore, to determine the best way for communication, I need to sensitive to the emotional content in my messages, try not transfer negative emotional contents via in words without face-to-face communication.
- Decoding-Receiving and Interpreting a Message
Listening is essential in communication process. During communication, listening other people speak is the skill. The effective listening is the active listening, such as look at the person, pay attention to his or her body language, avoid distractions, provide response (nod and smile), occasionally think back about what the person has said, allow the person to speak, without thinking about what I will say next, and don't interrupt. In addition, be a good listener could help me learn how to be a good speaker, help me improve my speaking skills.
- Feedback
I need to know how people understand my message, then feedback would help me to improve my communication skill. Feedback can be listener's body language, facial expression, gestures and their replies. Thus I can ask questions to ensure they understand or understood each other.
In conclusion, the abilities of my communication are not very good, therefore I have a lot aspects need to be improved
1) Ensure my messages simple and understandable,
2) using correct words and pronounce correctly,
3) ensure using correct methods to transfer my message,
4) be a good listener and study the good communication skills from other people,
5) notice listener feedback from my message, and ensure they can understand.