What were your communication challenges at the beginning of the course?

  reflection  

1. What were your communication challenges at the beginning of the course?
2. Please review the personal and professional goals you identified in the Week 1 discussion. How well did you meet them? Based on the course, have you created any new goals for yourself?
3. How have you progressed in your interpersonal communication abilities? What do you want to keep working on when this course is completed?
4. How has your understanding of nonverbal communication improved? How aware are you of the messages you send? How are you better able to decode other people’s nonverbal messages?
5. In thinking about your speeches, were your messages easy to follow? How could the organization have been improved?
6. Did you like having the opportunity to re-do the Elevator Pitch? Explain why/why not.
7. How successful were your introductions, bodies, and conclusions? Again, be specific with examples.
8. Did your language, voice, and body language enhance or harm your communications effort?  Be as precise as you can, and comment on both verbal and nonverbal aspects of your delivery.
9. In your estimation, what were the most effective aspects of your messages?
10. What are you the most proud of accomplishing through this course?
11. What advice would you offer to future students of Foundations of Oral Communication?
12. Are there any content areas that you would like covered in more detail? Are there areas that you think do not need to be included in the course?
13. POST
14. Week 1 – The following are my personal and professional communication goals:Personal: I would like to know how to communicate effectively when speaking to family/friends. Sometimes I have a tendency to be too formal and not turning off my corporate hat and then I find myself not communicating professionally when the time is needed. My father is retiring the end of July and I would like to speak at his ceremony but I’m terrified. I’ve tried to writing a speech with no success.  Professional: I was recently promoted (October 2021) to a supervisor and I have to disseminate information via email and speak to my direct reports often. I’ve been told from one of my employees that my verbal directions are inconsistent. Its like I have a thousand thoughts on my mind and I jump from topic to topic. To become a better public speaker.