The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate your personal communication skills. Be honest in your
evaluation. This should help you identify your challenges and opportunities for improvement.

Write a 350 word evaluation and analysis of your personal communication strengths and
weaknesses, as well as how you communicate within organizations.
Describe the components of communication, as outlined in this week's reading. Assess your skills in
those areas.
Discuss three components, skills, or areas you would like to improve.
Outline an improvement plan.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Write a 350 word journal entry in the narrative style.
Describe the flow of information in your company, or in a company at which you have been
employed. In your journal, discuss the following:

•  The intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, and intercultural levels of communication within your company

•  How information travels up, down, and across your organization, and how it relates to the basic communications model

• The functions of the Y hierarchy of managerial communications. Does it apply to your organization's communication hierarchy?

• A comparison of at least three managerial communication approaches you have observed in your organization

• At least three potential barriers to effective communications that exist in your company