Introduction
For a modern person who claims to be cultural and educated, low culture of communication should be considered as indecent as the inability to read and write. Speech is the best passport of a person, and today, new economic and social conditions have highlighted the need to increase communicative competence, since a high speech culture and a developed economy are inseparable. It is known that in many countries of the world, a great deal of attention is paid to the problem of communication. It is also important to note that today in the world, interest in rhetoric has also sharply increased. From psychological perspective the need for improvement in areas such as public speaking, negotiation, and time management is the issue of confidence. By harnessing self-confidence, a person can psychologically influence others.
Public Speaking
The first core skill that needs major improvement is public speaking because I believe it will greatly advance my career progression. I might possess the given skill due to a number of courses where I needed to present my point of view in front of a large audience. For example, during various seminar sessions my peers gave a relevant feedback which stated that my public speaking skills require major improvements. Thus, it can be said that my competence level is not fully developed to proficient degree. In fact, communication skills are becoming the so-called cornerstone for successful career growth. In addition, public speaking is important because more than one-third of respondents indicated that poor public speaking skills hindered their progress up the career ladder.
Public speaking is a powerful business tool, and due to competent and thoughtful communication, you can inspire, motivate, convince, impress, or settle any conflict (Shi et al., 2017). In addition, recently, customers are becoming more demanding and receptive in relation to their professional service, which is critical for my future career advancements. All this increases the need for effective communication skills, last but not least, with the goal of establishing long-term relationships with customers. In addition, this entails attracting new customers, which in general will increase both the company’s sales level and the company’s popularity in the market (Laborda et al., 2016). However, to date, not every manager can boast of good public speaking skills.
However, in my career, the task of managers is precisely to identify the needs of the staff, even if they do not know about their needs in this public speaking area or do not want to cooperate (Golombisky, 2016). The face of the company is its employees, and therefore, the ability to speak clearly and confidently is a skill that employees working at all levels of the company should have. The organization should strive for excellence, and approaches will vary depending on the needs of the employee and his role in the company.
General professional knowledge and communication experience in repeated professional situations allow the audience to replace perceived values with adequate meanings, thereby providing her with an understanding of text information at the semantics level. This can be considered as a major contradiction due to the inherent factor of randomness. Formulating their conclusions about the speaker’s intentions, the partners are guided not only by general knowledge about the events discussed but also use their own beliefs, opinions, and attitudes related to the circumstances under discussion for this purpose (Shi et al., 2017). This provides them with an understanding of the speaker’s intentions, even when these intentions are not directly expressed in speech and, therefore, cannot be understood at the level of semantics.
Negotiation
The second core skill that needs improvement is negotiation skills, especially during conflicts. The main reason is that I mostly avoid conflict, which is one of the disadvantageous resolutions. However, it is certain that I might possess a certain amount of competence in this regard due to numerous remarks from my tutors which stated that I have necessary personality-based factors, such as high level of compassion. It is important because business negotiations are a tool for establishing business relations, coordination of joint activities. Without business negotiations, the actions of specialists in many professional fields are impossible: management, jurisprudence, state, and municipal administration, commerce, politics (Wesner and Smith, 2019). The relevance of the problem is that the effectiveness of business negotiations, which make up a significant part of the professional activities of managers at various levels, is determined not only by their professional competence on the issues discussed but also by personal and business qualities.
The main goal is to study the psychological conditions for effective business negotiations, and the object of improvement is business negotiations. At my current level, the subject of development is mental conditions that affect the effectiveness of business negotiations. The biggest contradiction is the presence of social anxiety, which forces excessively polite people to avoid stressful negotiations. The effectiveness of business negotiations is determined by the business and personal qualities of managers, who are influenced by experience in the field of issues discussed, organization, and conduct of negotiations (Tomlinson and Lewicki, 2015). In the course of the modern process of globalization of the economy of our country and the strengthening of entrepreneurial activity, new perspectives are opened for expanding professional cooperation and entering the international market.
As a result, cultural exchanges, and direct contacts between government institutions, social groups, and individuals of different countries are carried out (Wesner and Smith, 2019). First of all, it is a neoplasm that manifests itself in the interaction of negotiators as carriers of certain cultures and has a complex psychological structure (Wertheim, Glick and Larson, 2019). In general, the competence of participants in business negotiations can be considered as a combination of culturally relevant values, norms, stereotypes, and social skills that ensure conflict-free, effective, and comfortable negotiation process in a multicultural environment. Thus, my future career will certainly involve negotiations due its prevalence in any management positions.
Time Management
Furthermore, it is critical for me to develop my time management skills in order to be more productive. It is important for me because time management is effective planning of working hours to achieve goals, finding temporary resources, prioritizing, and monitoring the implementation of what is planned. I might possess the given skillset because a number of my peers during self-assessment sessions noted that I am diligent with my time. However, they also pointed out that I excessively focus on unimportant tasks, which might be urgent but irrelevant. Its main task is to do more in a unit of time and effectively spend its resources. In psychology, there are two types of time management – simple and systemic (McCune, 2015). At the core of the system are global goals, which allows us to talk about time management as a philosophy of life. Simple time management is a set of techniques that help to move towards achieving these global goals gradually.
Turning to the goal-setting, it should be understood that the goal must be real, concrete, measurable, and have a deadline for implementation. If the target does not have one of these parameters, then it ceases to be the target. The ability to prioritize is the main part of time management as if each business or work is considered urgent and most important, then you will not be able to effectively plan the time (Adams and Blair, 2019). Habits are an indicator that the art of time management is mastered. However, they also can act as major contradictory factors which hinder one’s ability to be productive. They will be manifested in a developed sense of time, which will help to complete all things on time and increase personal effectiveness (Wajcman, 2019). The working hours of most modern managers of modern managers are tightened to the limit, the working day is not standardized, and yet it is often not possible to complete all the scheduled tasks by the specified deadline.
In such a situation, the only solution can only be the use of special techniques and methods that have the common name of time management. Time management is just a big name for what is essentially the management of oneself, an organization, people in order to accelerate the resolution of problems, the implementation of activities, the execution of work, actions (Adams and Blair, 2019). The relevance to my career is manifested in the fact that any modern occupation requires an employee with outstanding time management skills.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the mental state is holistic, at every moment, it captures a person completely. It is impossible to imagine a person simultaneously experiencing several different conditions. It is important to note that this is not about ambivalent feelings because the combination of several trends gives a new quality of experience. Identity also gravitates towards integrity, but since it is an actual combination of human relations with the world, its attitude to integrity is more complicated. Of the many available and taking place relationships with the world, a person identifies a certain aspect, that which is the focus of his attention and organizes his activity.
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