Effective Communication Skills

In my personal opinion, effective communications would mean that one can conduct themselves appropriately in different circumstances and also being able to deliver what he or she wish to say to the audience without any misunderstandings.

 To be able to express one’s ideas to others in coherent manner is something which I would like to achieve in at the end of this course. Being a typical young Singaporean, I got accustomed to speak to my friends in Singlish so comfortably that sometimes I find it challenging to string good English sentences together in a formal setting. The comfort of instant messaging on mobile devices may also contribute to this bad habit of giving short replies.

Furthermore, I would also like to learn how to maintain a conversation with people of different backgrounds, for example, my prospective employers and seniors etc. This was especially so after a personal encounter with a friendly senior employee in the internship company which I have worked for last summer.

He asked me,” You have been here for a few weeks already, how do you find the work here?”

And I answered,” Oh, okay lo."

At that instant, I noticed that he was quite amused by my reply. It was then I realised that my casual and short answer probably caught him off guard.

Being a final year student would mean that I will be joining the workforce in less than a year’s time. It then dawned upon me that I need to have an effective communication skill so that I can present myself professionally and to avoid the above-mentioned incident in near future.

Therefore, all these reasons propel me to sign up for ES2007S hoping that the communication and presentation skills that I have learnt can help me to become a more confident speaker in public. As my future ambition was to become an educator, I do not wish to find myself in a situation whereby I would be too nervous to speak in front of a class of students.

:) created this blog specially for this module:)