Week 1 Discussion

Address the following in your post:

• What are your communication strengths? Provide specific details.
• What are the areas you would like to improve? Why? Provide specific details.
• Rate your current level of professional communications skill based on the following five categories and explain how you arrived at your rating.

Communication Skill Levels

• Novice: You tend to "wing it" when communicating. Your messages seldom achieve your desired goals.
• Intermediate: Your communications are sometimes effective, but you lack an established process for communicating (and you aren't actively testing your methods).
• Proficient: You apply some tools and techniques of communications and, while you may do so inconsistently, you are fairly effective when you communicate.
• Distinguished: You are considered highly professional. You regularly influence outcomes through communications and you are highly communications-oriented.
• Expert: You have extensive experience in business communications, are well-versed in the topic, and can influence goals strategically while driving action with your messaging.