I feel so bad to myself about my situation. I don’t have such problem when it comes to speak in my language but why am I having this weakness in English? I’m really scared of standing up and speaking up while my classmates haven’t even got one word of all I have said. It seems like my word are new for them because of my
To me, my cultural artifact speech felt like it was just going to naturally flow out. I practiced it several times but every time I practiced the speech I found myself changing bits and pieces of it. My Livestrong bracelet means so much to me and to talk about it sounded like it was going to be easy, but I was wrong. I did not stick to my outline, I feel like because I didn’t decide on one last final draft is why my speech delivery wasn’t good. Not staying with my speech outline it made me nervous and because I didn’t want to stumble, I stumbled
Also, Freeman seemed hesitant to take questions after her reading was over. Tim Seible had to be cut off because he wanted to keep answering questions. This makes me think that Freeman isn’t such a people person and would be hard to approach. I would feel more comfortable asking Seible a question or talking to him than I would
Passive communication by definition is not expressing honest feelings thought or beliefs. (, 2014). They often communicate in an apologetic and self-effacing way, allowing others to disregard them and often eventually shoulder the responsibility or end up handling other’s issues. In this scenario this is exactly what Pamela did. She concluded Brigit might not have done the tests accurately because of the previous reading.
Now that I am doing a vocational course, I feel as if school didn’t prepare me for this new journey, I didn’t have the skills to do thorough research which is needed in BTEC Health and Social care, everything is coursework based as opposed to the previously examination based courses I was studying; this suddenly made me feel as though I wasn’t taking in information very well. I was stuck in revision mode and having to remember things to implement them in exams, only this time there were no exams so I quickly adopted a lazy attitude in the first year of this course and reduced my work quality by thinking that I had to read the text books and write them up as scripts in my own words which was far from correct. This also caused my attendance to drop because I thought everything was so ‘easy’ which had its own consequences; I missed a lot of valuable information given in classes that would mean I would actually learn new things. I started panicking and started to attend again; being patient with myself so as to learn new skills and it did pay off in the end because I actually started to understand how to execute my assignments properly. This was purely because of my own commitment and drives to stick to something and learn contrary to implementing my previous experiences of
After that meeting I got in a lot of trouble just because I had my arms folded throughout the whole meeting. I was told that this made me look like I was closed to the idea and the upper management told me that they needed my support. I was actually trying to be supportive in that meeting but I had no clue then that people watched my non verbal signals. The receiver of a message can also communicate feedback via written material. If the message was communicated via email the receiver can ask questions in the email ensuring that the email was understood correctly.
I feel nervous and unconfident when doing a speech in front of students. Because of this, I am sometimes not able to express myself concisely and clearly. I also struggle to write essays or reports professionally in coursework. Lack of critical thinking skills is another weakness, which can be found within group work, I do not question,
Another weakness I have as a public speaker is that I tend to stumble and skip sentences. This affects my public speaking because when you stumble and skip sentences your audience will most likely will not be able to understand the points that you are trying to make in your speech. They will get confused. My last weakness is that I lack the inner confidence. I am always judging and doubting myself.
In this reflective essay I will focus on particular areas of face-to-face counselling that could often be overlooked such as body language, empathy, rapport building and questioning. These subtle skills a counsellor could use may seem insignificant, when really it can determine the difference between a helpful or a non helpful session. Before the session I was un-sure of what to expect as I had not previously received any professional counselling to my discredit. Feelings of nervousness and anxiousness came over me on the way to the session as I was unsure where to start or how in depth the session would be. I seemed to prioritise in my head what issues in my life I would focus on and I also thought about what specific questions the counsellor may ask.
But casual speech will be to a immediate audience (the person the speaker is speaking to) and does not have to have a lasting effect. Due to the different audiences, different techniques are used in each type of speech. The spontaneity of casual speech means that many techniques such as fillers and false starts would be found. This is because the speech has not been prepared and the speaker hasn’t practised what they are going to say in advance, they would have to think about what they are going to say whilst saying it, resulting in the speaker saying ‘umm’ and ‘urr’ . On the other hand in a political speech you would not find these as they have prepared the speech and learnt it ahead of the speech they are giving.