This training has helped strengthen my knowledge and skills as an effective communicator and active listener.

Learn to communicate with your peers and coworkers effectively as well as communicate up to your coordinators or bosses.

Relaying negative feedback can be helpful. But also relaying positive feedback is also important. Negative feedback should be given only to the person who it is for. And not discussed with other members of the staff. Also give a solution on how to turn negative feedback into positive feedback. Set goals for the future to improve the performance. And then give feedback that is positive. I like to think encouraging others is better and beneficial. 

Effective communication is very important. The way you communicate with a person can break or make your relationship with your employee. Effective communication involves one on one communicating. If you choose not to communicate appropriately then the person that the information is attended for could look at your lack of communication skills as a insult. Effective communication means a a lot in team building and relationship building. 

Communication is the foundation upon which successful businesses are built. In Business Administration, effective communication is crucial for conveying ideas, negotiating, and building relationships with stakeholders.

*Key Reflection Points*

1. *Clear Messaging*: Clear and concise communication helps avoid misunderstandings, ensuring that messages are conveyed accurately and efficiently.

2. *Active Listening*: Listening attentively to others' perspectives and concerns fosters trust, resolves conflicts, and promotes collaborative problem-solving.

3. *Adaptability*: Being able to adapt communication styles to diverse audiences, cultures, and contexts is vital for effective communication.

4. *Feedback Mechanisms*: Establishing feedback mechanisms encourages open communication, helps identify areas for improvement,… >>>

So, I learned that there is more than one way to listen! So, it does take someone who can listen to fully understand what others are saying or even feeling. 

There can be no misunderstanding if you communicate your ideas to the people who need to hear it in the right way. To many time we take for granted that the people we are speaking to fully understand what we are saying. In education this is so true as I can explain a task to my students and as soon as I turn around to start the next part of the task half the class is completely loss. Now I have to stop and reteach the same info. all over again and take up even more time saying the same… >>>

Verbal feedback will be applied more whenever necessary.

It is best to use a variety of ways to communicate (verbally, in writing, and visually with video/ presentation or a combination) with your colleagues and students. Use the best methods of communication based on your purpose. Although it may be time-consuming at times, you can communicate your thoughts verbally and follow up with a short memo or email to highlight your conversation by being explicit, clear, and concise in your delivery allowing your message to be reciprocated by all parties involved.

Communiation is the foundation for success.  It is important that your communication be clear and concise, state your purpose early, and do not over complicate things.  

A well written document is important. 

Challenges come in all shapes and sizes, a big must is to engage the students at all times. Some students are hard to engage due to personal issues and some have learning difficulties, and class time is so limited. 

Challenges I've found in the classroom for students are staying focused and motivated. Every Student has their own story, their own struggles and sometimes it could be extremely hard for them to get motivated to come to class. We have to keep them excited and wanting to come to class by keeping them engaged. 

I find it challenging to keep students engaged due to the ,limited amount of time we have in class. the students want to be working on assignments because they are also very limited to homework time. So I find it easier to ask them to pick a topic from curriculum and have me discus and go over that so they are actually interested in the lecture.

I learned today that it's best to look over your presentation, and practice the delivery. It will help with any kind of anxiety and help answer questions the audience may have. 

Engagement

During years of management in different countries with different cultural background, I've found out fairness and being just to team members is the best resolution for so many conflicts.

As a person with very team oriented and democratic mindset, it is always a challenge to pursuit everybody in the team to get the follow my instructions and keep them satisfied in all the occasions. This style of management helps to avoid conflicts and create less negative interactions in the work environment, but make the team to feel that they can never expect dissatisfaction, and expectations from the manager, so it create moments of unexplainable accusation and reactions from the team.

I would have liked more skills.  Mirroring, ways to convey information, etc. But, it was well laid out and easy to follow.

I have been in a management position for quite a while. The information in the Providing Feedback lesson unit isn't already something that I have not already heard but it never hurts to reinforce our knowledge and be prompted to examine our methods. After a time we can fall into doing things a certain way and growth happens when we reflect on what we do and open ourselves to accepting change and improving ourselves.

The aspect of this that resonated the most with me was the part about just stating behavior observations and not offering advice right away. Aid in… >>>