Reflection on Communication

Running head: REFLECTION ON COMMUNICATION
REFLECTION ON COMMUNICATION
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The aim of this essay is to discuss the role of communication in professional and
personal relationships. Communication is the basis of every interpersonal and professional
relationship in fact effective style of communication can be the key for developing healthy
and long lasting relationship. When individuals cannot communicate with one another
properly the problems emerge. In my life professionally and personally I have understood
that communication plays a pivotal role in the production of misunderstandings which
eventually strengthen the connection among the individuals. I feel a personal relationship can
lose its charm when one cannot express and reciprocate once feelings through different
modes of communication. However I also feel that it is not only through verbal
communication the individuals must express their feelings. The share of feelings can also be
done through nonverbal communication. However there are some barriers to communication
which create challenge for the individuals in developing professional and personal
relationships (Thomson et al., 2015). Therefore, I need to first point them out and then try to
mitigate them in a positive yet effective way. This essay will discuss the role of
communication in the personal and professional relationship building and negotiation,
listening and talking style and their impact on the others, barriers of communication and how
these make communication challenging. This essay ends with suggestion for overcoming
barriers to improve communication.
Role of communication in the interpersonal relationship as well as in professional
life search to be one of the most important skills. Communication skills not only required in
personal life but also required in the work classes. Depending on the nature of once
profession the communication modes are different (Lum et al., 2015). Some of the persons
need to develop verbal communication skills and some others named written communication.
In case I cannot be successful in communication skill in my personal life I can also not be
successful in the professional life also therefore I need to be a good communicator and

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perfectly convey what I actually want to share with the listener. Putting the personal life and
professional life I follow some of the very important factors that make my communication
more effective than the others (Jenifer & Raman, 2015). I take care of my tone and pitch and
make sure that I am not too loud or too soft because this can either hurt the other person or
they may not understand what I am saying. Therefore I speak softly and in a convincing way
so that the other person can understand me and follow what I am saying. Secondly I choose
the word differently for different persons. In both professional and personal life the intensity
of relationships are not always same. Therefore I remain very cautious that weather I am
talking to the person having the same position like me or higher authority (Nica, Manole &
Potcovaru, 2016). Choice of words therefore can prevent the possibility of miss
understanding and misinterpretation and makes me very straight forward without confusing
anyone. The role of personal and professional communication skills are also associated with
written communication. In the professional cases I prefer to communicate through written
communication so that I can take time to think and then communicate what message I want to
convey. In many cases the professional communication ads the nonverbal style of
communication. This always changes with the seniority of the employees and cultural
differences (Khan & Omar, 2018). In some cultures, the nonverbal communication process is
not accepted and the reading between the lines is not understood. Therefore I need to be very
careful while communicating my message to the audience and make sure that they understand
clearly everything what I have shared.
Communication is not only to share the thoughts ideas and concepts to the other or
pressurize the audience to abide by or follow the same. Communication also includes active
listening process. The more I will listen to others, the more I will be listened. Whenever I
listen to the others I try to be using my eyes. This is due to the fact in case I miss anything in
my ears I can capture those through my eyes. Active listeners always open their eyes and