COMST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Soft Skills, Critical Thinking, Interpersonal Communication
10 Apr 2019
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Why professional communication is important in the workplace: soft skills. Critical thinking: integral to many industries, public relations, marketing, human resources politics, business. What are the types of professional communication: verbal, nonverbal, visual. Ways of communicating: verbally, digitally, through writing, send emails, file reports. in person. 5 forms of communication in the workplace: interviews. Having strong oral communication skills is key to nailing job interviews. In order to demonstrate your ability to do the job well, you"ll have to be able to express yourself in areas such as: Professional communications: your work experience, goals, attitude, ideas. In addition, many hiring managers will be evaluating your interpersonal communication skills as a measure of how well you"ll interact with your team because this is often an important aspect of any position. Even in highly technical positions, such as programming, you"ll likely have people evaluating your soft skills, which include general communication, along with your technical skills: group projects.
