Example Essay on Effective Business Communication

Effective Business communication has taught me several forms of communication in today’s society. In order to effectively communicate within my personal life, I first need to understand other forms of communication along with my own. Learning these forms of communication will allow me to communicate with my husband and daughter effectively. For instance, my oldest daughter uses technology more to communicate. This allows her to gather her thoughts and feelings more, so I have started trying this form of communication now that we have fewer disagreements and even talk more in person.

My husband prefers face-to-face communication rather than text messages. I have found that we would have misunderstandings and even fusses when we text one another about a serious conversation. I decided to try face-to-face communication, and I have noticed that we communicate better and understand each other more. This form of communication has helped us grow as a couple and form more respect and love for one another.   As for my professional life, I have found technology such as emails, windows shareable calendars, and shareable memos to be the best form of communication.

Since we, as directors, are so busy running programs, finalizing deadlines, and communicating with program participants, it is tough to remember everything happening in each other’s departments. This is why we use emails, memos, and windows shareable calendars because it makes us less likely to meet essential deadlines, meaningful conversations, and important events. This, I have noticed, has allowed me to have minor miscommunication with my Branch Director since we both stay so busy. My Branch Director and I also share the same personality, so when talking about important deadlines or events in person, it is easier for us to get confused with one another than when we email back in forth because we tend to speak simultaneously in person.

Since this class, I have also realized that I did not understand business communication as well as I thought. I now realize business communication is the process of sharing important information with coworkers, loved ones, and other businesses outside of your work environment. Business communication also teaches us how to deal with conflict, differences of opinions, cultural views, religious views, proper etiquette, and proper dinner manners.

I have also learned the importance of being professional in the business world. There are so many different cultures, languages, and religious views within our society that it is straightforward to offend someone nowadays. So, we must always make sure we consider these views when we communicate with one another. I have also found this to be true within my workplace. There have been times when I considered a program participant as being rude to me because they were very short and said very few words to me to realize later they did not speak excellent English. After finding out they could not speak excellent English, I felt awful for having the thoughts and attitudes toward them.

However, I think using our Christian values within our professional and personal lives will allow us practical business communication skills. This will allow us to ensure we are honest, caring, responsible, and respectful to others because these are the values that God instills in us. With God’s word and leadership, we can always rest assured that we treat others the way we would like. God teaches us always to be slow to anger and always make sure we gather our thoughts and speak with a softened heart. This is how we should be when speaking to our loved ones and speaking to others in a professional work environment.

Making sure we do our research when communicating in the business world also allows us to make sure we have less conflict with others. It also ensures we have researched other companies to make decisions based on correct information instead of rash decisions or gossip. Doing our research also allows us to collaborate and work together so that we can further achieve our goals and deadlines efficiently. Another form of effective research that business communication has taught me is parliament procedures. This is where you write down a body of rules and notes that were discussed during important business meetings to ensure everyone remembers decisions made and important topics discussed.

I thoroughly enjoyed effective business communication and hated seeing the class end. Professor Rob has genuinely taught me the importance of covering essential topics, doing my research, and ensuring I always answer questions and ask questions in a professional yet courteous manner. Making sure you are professional and courteous helps each individual to ensure they are showing others respect. It creates less tension and confusion in our personal lives and the professional work environment.