Rate your communication skills based on the scale listed below. Explain.
Novice: You tend to wing it when communicating. Your messages seldom achieve your desired goals.
Intermediate: Your communications are sometimes effective, but you lack an established process for communicating (and you arent actively testing your methods).
Proficient: You apply some tools and techniques of communications and, while you may do so inconsistently, you are fairly effective when you communicate.
Distinguished: You are considered highly professional. You regularly influence outcomes through communications and you are highly communications-oriented.
Expert: You have extensive experience in business communications, are well-versed in the topic, and can influence goals strategically while driving action with your messaging.
Next, think of someone who is a great communicator. What makes her or him skillful? What specifically does she or he do to project her or his professional presence? How have the techniques she or he uses to communicate helped her or him accomplish his or her goals?
Note: Your goal is to identify accurately your current level of communications proficiency and to grow in this course and throughout your MBA program.