Competent Communication

For this week's blog assignment had me to think long and hard about someone who has competent communication skills. I have met many people in my life that demonstrates positive and effective communication, but competent; where the person is clear from beginning to end is quite hard. But because we are able to use a politician for an example, I would have to say President Obama. He's has a tendency to speak very well and keep me engaged as to what he has to say next, that’s how effective his communication skills are and should be.

President Obama is someone I would like to model my own personal communication behavior after of, reason being; if I can catch an audience attention and keep them focus for a long period of time and their just as engaged at the end of my speak as they were at the beginning than I know that my communication skills is effective.

Interdependence is what I set forth when communicating with others.

Interdependence means that what we do affects others and what others do affects us (O’Hair, Wiemann, 2009 p.6). We have to build our lives around affective communicators and implement that from ourselves to others as well.

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       O’Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2009). Real communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

        

Chapter 1, “Communication: Essential Human Behavior” (p. 26)