Response to “How to drastically improve your public speaking skills”

Summary

In the story “How to drastically improve your public speaking skills” from the Better Humans blog, Jason Shen gives his audience tips on what they can do to improve their own…

First Thoughts on Developing Communication Skills

In this blog, I will be documenting my experience with improving my communication skills over the next couple of weeks. This soft skill is very important to me because I am currently a student at the University at Buffalo School of Management…

Persuading my Supervisor

This semester I will be finishing up a Human Resources internship that I have enjoyed very much. I do not want to leave my work there behind when the semester ends, so I thought that it would be ideal to continue working there for pay over the summer. In order for this to happen…

Leading a New Hire Meeting

Recently, I was presented with a brand new communication related challenge. My supervisor at my Human Resources internship was out of town for the week, and she asked me if I would be willing to lead a new hire meeting in her absence. I accepted, despite lacking confidence in…

Communicating for Group Projects

This week I was assigned a group project in my COM 317 class. My first reaction to this news was frustration as usual. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve always hated group projects. They usually make me feel stressed and uncomfortable. This time, however, I knew that I had…

“Changing the Language” Response

In the story “Changing the Language” from the blog Effective Communication, Denny Dong writes about the difficulty that results from communicating with his parents when he is not fluent in Chinese, and they are not fluent in English. In order to fix this problem, he said…

Basic Oral Communication Response

Summary

I chose Chapter 7: Verbal Communication: Voice from the book Basic Oral Communication from the University at Buffalo library to respond to on my blog. Basic Oral Communication was written by Glenn Capp and Richard Capp, who both have…