Descriptive Reflection: Strengths and Challenges in Communicating

One of my strength in communication is that I am able to communicate freely with people due to my outgoing personality. By being able to communicate easily with others, I can learn from them and their life experiences, which serves a teaching if I do one day face the same dilemma they were in and I could advert their mistakes and make a better choice than they did.
However, even if I can easily communicate with others, it might not be in a good way. One major flaw that I have is that I can be brutally honest and lack tact when dealing with situations. For example, when people need a listening ear, I tend to tell them what they do not want to hear most. For people who do not know me, they might tend to misunderstand my intentions, thus offending people and giving them the wrong first impression.
By the end of the course, I hope that I can learn to be tactful as speaking without tact has caused people to feel offended and therefore poses an interpersonal problem. Learning to be tactful requires a change of habits, namely not thinking and processing before speaking. By stopping and thinking properly before speaking, it would prevent me from making hasty remarks and by stopping and thinking to organize my thoughts, I can come up with something that might not offend others.
Also, I hope that I can learn to speak more confidently as currently, I have problems speaking to large crowds of people. With a crowd, the sheer number of people overwhelms me and I will get nervous and tend to lose my thoughts. This could be classified as stage fright and I want to overcome it by the end of the course.

Setting my own objectives

It is important to have effective communication skills as it help builds or even maintain relationship. Without such skills, it will be quite difficult to properly construct and foster productive relationships. Also by having such skills, it will allow me to build an effective team and can improve myself personally as a team player.

One of the method that I would do is to first understand what kind of communication method that I usually use. After understanding what kind of communication method I use, I would next identity the weak point and strong points that I currently possess and read the article/ information to improve my weak points and at the same time further strengthening what I already have.