Sunday, January 17, 2016

Strengths and Challenges in Communicating

Communication plays a great part in my daily life. It helps me to convey the proper message by adding on different characteristics such as tone, emotion, formality, posture, gesture etc.

I believe my greatest strength would be being observant. I realised many people tend to use their gestures or tone to communicate, instead of just their voice. And if you are not careful, things might go wrong. Throughout the years I observed how people communicate with one another. And I found out that it is an important role in communication. It can restrict me with words that can bring destruction to our talk. Whenever I’m consoling someone, I wouldn’t talk about unhappy moments at all. Rather by observing the situation, I will bring up happy memories to calm him/her down. (Sometimes food helps too!)

My greatest weakness is that I do not to talk much in groups. I used to be an introvert when I was young, even in my closest group of friends I can’t bring up to them. I was afraid that I might say something wrong which could offend someone. So I always keep things to myself. Hardly will anyone know the real side of me. Placing a mask and hiding my true self can be lonely sometimes. Till now I’m still facing this problem although there is much improvement as compared to my younger days.

Over the years communication has helped me improve a lot to who I am today. In communication, every day is a new discovery. I have learnt to build up my strength and use my strength to improve my weakness. By observing i learn from others, from an introvert to an extrovert shows that my communication skill have improve. However, THIS IS NOT THE END!