Address the following in your post: What are your communication strengths? Provide specific details. What are the areas you would like to improve? Why? Provide specific details. Rate your current le

Address the following in your post:

• What are your communication strengths? Provide specific details.
• What are the areas you would like to improve? Why? Provide specific details.
• Rate your current level of professional communications skill based on the following five categories and explain how you arrived at your rating.

Communication Skill Levels

• 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 aren't 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.