Analysis of Communication Skills:
A Self-Assessment
"The power of vision is the starting point. Once you have established your goal, you need to develop your communication skills so that you can share your vision with the rest of the world and create something unique," Tips on starting your own winning business. (2011, March 9). This statement is true. I consider my communication skill good to excellent. As the daughter of two school teachers I have an excellent command of the English language and they taught me how to present myself in such a way to adapt to my audience and have a confidence in my words. These traits have allowed me to be successful in a number of various professions, but I find my ability to communicate with
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Mentioning anal gland expression can also be used if I feel they still haven’t gotten my point. My communication style has always had a hint of humor behind it. Less so in the actual words that I say, but in how those words are delivered. At 40 years old, and after working on perfecting my delivery, my sarcastic style comes across lighthearted and humorously informative. I like to think that I say what everyone else is thinking and wants to say, only with a smile.
The best way I found to assess my communication skills is through example and understanding. For example, these days’ people have legitimate concerns about spending their hard-earned money, but when they complain about the cost of grooming in our salon, I always remind them, in a respectful way, that you get what you pay for. How you say it is more important than what you say in these cases. Quality grooming costs money because it takes skill and manpower. I also will point out that there is a lot of overhead involved. Our groomers are career professional who get job-related benefits because they deserve them. I tell the folks that want to haggle about prices that of course they are welcome to shop around. Although some other establishments may beat our prices by a few dollars, their dog will never be treated with more respect and kindness and will never receive a better haircut than he does with us. If the complaint about cost goes beyond that, I will get down to specifics,
Another example of me being communicating well is once I found my friend Maniac is a buffalo pen at the zoo late at night in the west side of town. I had to convince him to come home. This is what I told him “ you do not have a choice. I am not asking you. I’m telling you. You are coming home with me, and you are going to sleep in my room, which is going to be your room- and I don’t care if you sleep on the floor or the windowsill or what-but you are going to sleep there and not here.” As you can see I am talking to Maniac about the fact that he will come with me and that he will not sleep in the buffalo pen. I spoke clearly stated my claim and told him what needed to be done. His shows that if I need something to get done I will communicate with the person. Finally I think I’m communicative because in my life I have probably gone through many stages. One of these stages was taking baths with my brothers. When I finally grew out of it I had to tell them, communicate with them. This is what happened “ Then came a day when Amanda entered fourth grade, and she decided she was getting too old to tub it with her little brother and sister.” This shows that Amanda decided to communicate with her
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