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Topic: Asses yourself as a communicator (oral and written skills)

An important key to success today is effective communication skills. There are different styles of communication: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive – aggressive as well as types of communication: verbal (oral) and nonverbal (written). Though, whichever combination you would choose to express yourself, just make sure, the message is delivered in a way you would like it to be accepted.

Here, I would like to asses my level of communication skills. Being fair to myself, I estimated it as an average, disregarding whether it is about oral or written skills, as it all come from the experience. Let me be more specific on each of the points.

Oral skills. My experience of expressing myself started during childhood, from the time when I used to perform the dance on a stage whether being in a group or a solo dancer. Obviously, there is no chance to express yourself rather than by your body language. Later, the feeling of sending the message to the audience remained, but the channel has changed: I joined various non-governmental organizations as a volunteer, where speaking to the audience was the initial part of members’ activities. That was also where I polished my Power Point presentation skills, which were introduced to me in the University.

Written skills. Whilst in previous paragraph I could refer to my student time experience that built and developed my particular oral skills, to nonverbal (written) communication type I was introduced in the secondary school. Not a single class of Russian and Ukrainian languages could pass without submitting summary or essay on the novel that was read and discussed during the class. It helped me to enter University, as there was an assessing process, based on your ability to write. However, since that time I tended to pay less attention to developing the basic written communication skills I got in school. Moreover, the business world, I would like to...