Season Finale

Reflecting back on my first post, I regarded effective communication as a useful tool in conveying messages and in expressing one’s feelings in order to prevent any unnecessary embarrassments and conflicts.

My viewpoints were written in such a way that only the conveyer needs to practice the skills of effective communication, but not the receiver. However, after going through 12 weeks of professional communication “training”, it made me realized that it was also important for the receiver to practice these effective communication skills in order for effective communication to take place. I would not say that my understanding of the values of effective communication skills have changed, but rather, I have gained deeper insights of the various effective communication skills and how they play important roles not only in our daily lives but also in the working world. Moreover, these skills will definitely come in handy for undergraduates like us who will soon be stepping into the working world.

With the acquisition of verbal and non-verbal communication skills during this course, I’m glad to say that I have become a better communicator, or at least, I am getting less of the sort of response that was mentioned in my first post. (:

Although the workload for this module had been rather heavy, nonetheless, it was no doubt a great experience taking this module with the ever so nice and approachable Prof Brad, the very encouraging and positive Carolyn and Thomas, my blog posts editor Huiling, the ever so funny Travis, and last but not least, the very wonderful YOU.

Hereby, I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for making this module such an enjoyable and memorable one! (: