Improving Oral Communication Skills through Meetup.com Network

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Based on my objectives and aims, I will be attending a meetup.com network. In the
previous section of this assignment, I chose oral communication as my point of weakness and
which I wished to develop. For that matter, my choice of network plan was mainly based on the
fact that meetup.com was the only effective channel which could help me nurture my oral skills.
Some of the other platforms like Facebook groups, state and local government websites as well
as professional associations although were good channels, they only dealt with writing and
presentation skills (Ashrafian, Toma, Harling, Kerr, Athanasiou and Darzi, 2014, p.1642).
From its description point of view, meetup.com equips the trainees with oral
communication skills. For instance, whether in need of practicing public speaking for anticipated
presentations or technology talks, in need of improving skills of delivering content as a teacher
or building more confidence as a public speaker in general, meetup.com has been ranked as the
best channel for those services. The main goal of this network is to help the participants cultivate
more confidence and effective communication through practical exercises, instructions,
individual feedbacks and speaking opportunities (Auer, Calvi, Jordan, Schrader and Byrd-
Craven, 2018, p.87). Considering that my weakness as outlined above concerns oral
communication, being part of this network will be a golden opportunity for me. As outlined
above, equipping the participants with effective communication or speaking skills is main goal
and which is my weakness. So, I will get a chance in this platform to build my oral skills.
There is quite a wide range of professionals I expect in this meeting, actually listing all of
them may take me centuries because almost every career requires public speaking skills. This is
because in almost all the careers, there must be interaction between two or more people and who
must communicate effectively with each other in order to achieve certain goals. However, there

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are certain groups of people whom I consider to be in the frontline of this network. Sales
&Marketing agents are in the top list because effective communication is a must for them to
succeed in their career (Hua et al, 2016, p.200). Second on the list are the motivational speakers
who must be equipped with effective communication skills to be able to win the attention of their
audience. Thirdly, public relation officers are expected in the platform because effective
communication to them is essential in consideration to the fact that they portray organization
image in the public and must do so effectively. Politicians are also expected in this platform
because they usually require public speaking skills in their campaigns to win public confidence.
Lastly but not least are the trainers and teachers whose career is majorly on communication
(Shen, Chiou, Hsiao, Wang and Li, 2016, p.2266).
From this network platform, I would like to gain insights on how to improve on oral
communication skills. Considering that the platform is majorly on promoting public speaking
skills and instilling confidence to the participants, through these and other opportunities offered
here I will come out with the necessary approaches to achieve that (Lindner et al, 2017, p.20).
Also, because the platform gives opportunities to gauge the participants, I will learn some of the
skills I might be lacking from the rest of the participants. Through my opportunity to express
myself, I will also realize some of my weak areas as per the instructor’s comments and
recommendations.
In this network platform, I will be aiming at promoting myself orally and to make the rest
of participants develop trust and confidence in whatever that I will be presenting. I will use
several strategies to achieve that. First of all, I will strive to be expressive in my emotions. This
is because I have realized that being nervous whenever delivering a public talk has always been
my main weakness however much I try to overcome. So, playing my emotions by getting into