Intrapersonal_and_Interpersonal_Communication

Have you ever wondered what characteristics and personal strengths make you the best suited person for your personal career choice' What are the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to work effectively with others' How is effective intrapersonal and interpersonal communication a key to future success' I have, and I will explain what I feel mine are. I will describe what I believe are the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors that one must possess to work effectively with others in order to maximize my specific talents. I will also describe why I feel that the key to future success is effective intrapersonal and interpersonal communication. What are the characteristics and personal strengths that make you the best suited for your personal career choice' I believe that honesty, hard work, and dedication are the characteristics and personal strengths that everyone must have to be the best suited person in any career choice. Honesty may possibly be the easiest, and at the same time the hardest, characteristic that a person can have. Being honest was taught to us all at a very young age. Most people have heard the age old saying that “honesty is the best policy”. This saying applies to everything we do in our lives. We learned that in order to be trusted with anything in life that we had to be honest with our teachers, family, friends, and, in the future, our employers. Without honesty there can be no trust, without trust there can be no success. With this understanding we can say that without honesty from your employer you will never truly succeed in any career. Hard work starts while in school and continues on throughout your career. It is noticed by employers while they review your resume, then again during the interview process, and it is noticed during your career. Any good employer can and will be able to tell the difference between an applicant who worked hard enough to just “get by” and an applicant who went above and beyond to get the best possible grades, perfect attendance, and turned homework assignments in on time or early if at all possible. Dedication is much like hard work in the fact that it is visible to any employer through your resume, during the interview process, and again during your career. Dedication is quite possibly the easiest thing to notice on a resume. It is visible in your employment history. For example, if you have had 4 jobs in the past year, that shows that you haven’t stayed at any given job for an extended period of time, while at the same time if you have had the same job, say at a fast food restaurant, for the past 2 years that shows you are dedicated to stick with whatever job you have acquired. Dedication is important to employers because they don’t want an employee who has had a past tendency to quit a job for another one frequently. They want an employee who is willing to stick it out when things get rough, an employee who is committed to do what must be done in order for the company to succeed. All three of these characteristics and personal strengths separately aren’t enough for any individual the best suited person for any job. However, when you combine all of these characteristics and personal strengths into any individual, every employer in your career field will want you working for their company. What are the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to work effectively with others' To answer this question we have to break it down into three parts; knowledge, skills, and behaviors. You need knowledge in your career field in order to work effectively with others. Without knowledge of your craft, there is no way one could contribute to a group. Trying to contribute to a group project without the necessary knowledge would be like drive down the street with square wheels, it just won’t work effectively. It would be bumpy, slow, and it would cause a lot of grief and frustration to everyone involved. The skills that are necessary are both personal and professional. I believe that communication, both verbal and written, problem solving, and organization are the necessary skills required to work with others. Communication is interpersonal as well as intrapersonal. Intrapersonal communication occurs within you. You think about solutions to problems, how to better organize yourself, how to relay your thoughts and ideas to your co-workers. It is through this that communication actually starts. Interpersonal communication is communication with another person. Communication, whether it is verbal or written, is required to relay your suggestions, concerns, or even give feedback to a team member who has asked for your input. Through intrapersonal and interpersonal communication is where true success lies. We need to be able to communicate effectively with our subordinates, our peers, and our supervisors in order to do our jobs effectively. If we are unable to do our jobs effectively we will not have a successful career. Problem solving is required in any career field. You need to be able to work with others in order to solve the majority of problems for whatever company you may work for. The people you work with to solve problems will vary anywhere from upper management to the people who work under you. Organizational skills are important to relay your thoughts to co-workers in a way that is understandable and has structure. Certain behaviors are expected in the work place. They include, but aren’t limited to, being respectful, understanding, and courteous. These behaviors make for a friendlier workplace. While you don’t necessarily need to be friends with your co-workers you need to get along with them in order to accomplish and group projects that may be assigned to you. Now that we know the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors required in order to work effectively with others, we can see how they all complement one another. Those who have the knowledge, skills, and behaviors to work effectively with others will more likely be asked to do group projects in the future. The more that upper management notices you and your work the more valuable you will be to the company, thus making promotions easier to acquire. In today’s economy the higher up in the hierarchy you are in a company the more job security you have. The better job security that you have the more successful of a future you will have.