What are your communicative strengths and weaknesses?
What do you do well?What do you want to improve?How will you work on these skills?
My communicative strengths are similar in oral and written format. Firstly, I am aware of my target audience and always make a conscious effort to set the right tone and register. For oral presentation, I would make sure that my voice is projected enough for the farthest audience to be able to hear me. As a result, loudness in communication is never an issue for me. This is very important as the audience might subconsciously complete my message if they cannot hear the entire message properly. This would result in miscommunication many a times and is highly dangerous.
Also for both oral and written, I always craft my message to be clear and concise as too much information would confuse the listener resulting in miscommunication again. Of course, this is also relative, i.e. speaking to an audience comprising of professionals is going to be very different from speaking to an audience consisting primary one pupils. Hence, I am aware of the nature of my audience as well.
Also, I would set the context of my message to be one that is complete. This ensures that I am not wasting the time of my audience and inspire confidence in the motion that I am proposing. Alternatively, it also helps in communicating the correct message.
I feel that my weakness lies in my nonverbal skills, namely posture and hand gestures. When I get nervous, I tend to repeat a certain hand gesture that does not help to relate a certain message. This might be confusing for the audience. Also, I slouch a lot and this does not exactly inspire confidence and it also affects how I project my voice. I think I need to practice speaking more often in front of a mirror to correct all the mistakes above.
Also, for written communication, I tend to be neglectful in my language used including grammar and vocabulary. As a role model of english teacher, I must work hard to be mindful on this.
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