What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective verbal communication?

Communication Skills

Instructions:

Reflect on what you have learned about effective communications. As you have learned, the interview provides you an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to communicate verbally. As you are learning in this unit, the Thank You letter you send after your interview is a written communication designed to close the sale and get you a job offer.

With this in mind, discuss the following:

• Verbal communication skills
  • What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective verbal communication?
  • How can you overcome each of the barriers you identified? (For each barrier describe two (2) approaches you could use to overcome them)
• Written communication skills
  • What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective written communication?
  • How can you overcome each of the barriers you identified? (For each barrier describe two (2) approaches you could use to overcome them)
• Discuss how you can use these approaches in your:
  • Interviews
  • Cover and thank you letters

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Communication Skills

Instructions:

Please respond to one discussion post.

Consider your peer’s described barrier to effective verbal and written communication and their proposed approaches to overcome it.

• Choose one of the barriers in verbal communication described in their post.
  • Share a time when you experienced a similar barrier and how it was or was not surmounted.
  • Suggest another approach to overcoming it.
• Choose one of the barriers in written communication described in their post.
  • Share a time when you experienced a similar barrier and how it was or was not surmounted.
  • Suggest another approach to overcoming it.
• Suggest another way your peer can use one of their approaches to improve their verbal or written communications with potential employers.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.