Strengths and Weakness in Communicating

Hi guys, I am Wee Zhen Yang. Today I am going to touch on the topic communication.

What is Communication?

Communication is a basic form of relating with others and expressing your views and opinions. There are many forms of communication. They can be in form of gestures or words or body language.

Strength

 My strengths in communication is being able to read in between the lines of what people say when they are talking to each other and sense emotions within their words may it be negative or positive, I try to shift how to convey what I feel to them as not to offend them or cause any conflict between myself and others. I am also good in presenting in ways for example, always keeping in eye contact when presenting to an audience to show my interest in them, using a lively voice to liven the mood in the room, prompting the audience with questions which makes them think of different scenarios which could happen and try to overcome them.

Weakness

Moving on to the difficulties I have had or encountered so far, different people have other ways of communicating. I find alpha males or dominant people intimidating. They are usually the type of people who are very single minded where they only accept their way of doing things. For example, during one of my lectures, I was in a group with two dominant guys. When I was confused and asked certain questions or put out an idea, it was not looked at or replied at all. There was always a power struggle as it was usually the popular people who were more dominating in the sense that their views are accepted while yours are brushed aside or they use your idea and say it as their own which is demeaning. 

Goal

What I hope to take away from Communications and interpersonal work communications is how to handle situations better and be able to work around the difficult people to handle and not let it affect me emotionally as it can be very draining for me from day to day when interacting with them almost everyday.