Reflective Essay on Business Communication

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Reflective Essay on Business Communication
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Introduction
This essay aims to demonstrate a reflective approach towards achieving personal
career goals based on the weekly topics discussed in the class about effective business
communication. Every business organisation needs to maintain professional communication
in order to execute and monitor regular operational tasks. The essay is divided into three
sections roughly, which will be following a reflective style of writing. A reflective writing
will help to identify personal strength and weakness. Moreover, it helps to attain a clear idea
about the learning experience in order to rectify mistakes during the course (Lawrence,
2013). The first section will discuss the weekly concepts based on the topic of business
communication. The second one will provide a literature review on one of the concepts
selected from the weekly curriculum (Drury-Grogan & Russ, 2013). The final section will
demonstrate the application of any two concepts, which are going to be helpful for future
career development. This essay will try to shed light on the topics, which were discussed
from week one to ten and analyse the way it will enlighten us, as far as accomplishment of
career goals are concerned.
Section 1
The first week of discussion deals with introducing the concept of effective
communication and its purpose. I have learnt how a corporate professional should mastered
the art of communication in order to coordinate between several departmental requirements
(Christensen & Cornelissen, 2013). It has mainly focused on the role of professional
competency of structuring the system in an organised way. There are five ethical guidelines
to follow while communicating in different levels. Communication must be clear and logical
which can be interpreted easily. Supportive nature of communication and focusing on the
audience are the key to execute a good communicative session. Besides, various theories and

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ideal framework of communication have been discussed along with their purpose. I have
understood the types of business interaction and to achieve competency the way a corporate
professional must learn the methods that has been described here too.
In the second week, I have learnt about verbal and non-verbal modes of
communication and the process by which these methods are executed. Although, several
differences are there, a relationship can be found between these two modes of
communication. Factors like culture, personality and gender of individuals shape the nature
of interaction. Not only the modes of communication, how a listener behaves or the obstacles
between a listener and a speaker play important role as far as interpretation is concerned.
During the third week, the teacher shares some knowledge on business writing with
us. Communication is being performed in written method mostly to keep the official
approach. It elaborates who are the recipients and coordinators of written reports and the
forms of business writings such as, e-mails, letters, manuals, reports, memos and so on
(Carrió-Pastor & Calderón, 2015). From this part, I have learnt how I can frame things into a
quality resume or cover letter in order to apply for higher education or university. Certain
criteria of a good business writing have been mentioned following which the curriculum did
not forget to mention the importance of face-to-face communication to avoid
misunderstanding.
While writing a report, as described in Lentz, (2013), there are certain technicalities,
which are needed to follow, such as the instructions of formatting the paragraphs, the
mentioned style of referencing and the entire writing should be plagiarism free with the
support of authentic data.
Week 5, was all about learning the art of writing a literature review and a self-
reflective essay. This writing is an application of the lectures what I heard throughout fifth
week in the class (Mascle, 2013).