Me, As an Interpersonal Communicator



Me, As an Interpersonal Communicator

Introduction

Aside from oxygen, food, and water and various other practical needs, communication with human around us is considered as an essential tool for well being of humans. All of us are constantly in communication situations such as at home, at work, on the street, in public transport, with the closest and most strangers. To live, people are forced to interact (Bernstein, 2010). There are various types of communication styles that allow us to create and build relationships with people around us. Effective communication is the basis on how we define ourselves through self esteem and self image. Interpersonal communication is the effective form of communication that takes between two people. In interpersonal communication two people communicate with each other using symbols or words (Adler, 2012). The effectiveness of this communication depends on the familiarity of experience, background, and knowledge of the people involved in the communication. People with common experiences, backgrounds, and beliefs are likely to have better and effective communication. However, an interpersonal communication skill plays an important role in the process of communication. Interpersonal communication is considered extremely relevant for achieving professional and personal success. In this paper I am going to share my experience as interpersonal communicator.

Thesis Statement

Interpersonal communication is plays an important role in building personal and professional relationships.

There is a direct relationship between the quality of communication and quality of life of a person (Koprowska, 2008). Same was the case with me. My personal and professional life was affected because of my interpersonal communication. In my personal life I was passive, reserved, I preferred peace and harmony, did not life to interact much with people. But the type of environment and culture I was living I was expected to be inspiring influencing, open, interested in people. Because of different in the way of thinking and living I was not able to effectively communicate with people around me which highly affective my relationship with various important people in my personal and professional life.

My self esteem went down I was not able to give effective performance at home as well at workplace which increased stress and my career path was also being effective. I had confusing style of interpersonal communication. My messages clearly lead to confusion. When I was forced to resign from my job because of not being effective interpersonal communicator, I decided work on my ...