Learned Business Communication Skills
Angela Anderson
AUSP20/G01
BSA206
Overcoming Barriers to Listening
- Practice active listening
- Take notes
- Stay focused, avoid wandering mind or thoughts
- Paraphrase key points
- Hear to listen and not respond immediately
- Identify opportunities to learn
- Be mindful of non verbals
1. Listening Skills
Identifying Conflict Management Styles
2. Conflict Management
- Learning to recognize when to use different conflict management styles
- Accommodating is my dominant style
- Collaborative style is desired
- Be mindful of cultural differences in behaviors and communication depending on the audience
Assessing Audience Needs
3. Assessing Audience Needs
- Choosing the appropriate communication style based on the situation
- Being able to determine who my audience is
- What is my audience’s general attitude toward my subject?
- What does my audience need to know?
- Engaging the audience by asking questions
Identifying Ways to Improve Written Communication
4. Written Communication
- Spelling & grammar
- Proofread
- Sentence structure
- Ethical communication
- Remember credibility
- Provide details
- Testimonials or examples
- Customer satisfaction
- Persuasive messages using the AIDA model (attention, interest, desire, action)
Improve Public Speaking
5. Public Speaking
- Planning a presentation
- Analyze the situation
- Gather information
- Choose medium/channel
- Organize the information
- Write
- Adapt to the audience
- Compose presentation
- Complete
- Revise the message
- Master delivery
- Prepare to speak
- Overcome Anxiety
References Used
Thill, J. V., & Bovée Courtland L. (2019).
Excellence in business communication. Hoboken, NJ: Pearson.
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