2011.02.22.

Farkas Viktória

Individual reflective report

Farkas Viktória
November of 2009

First of all I suggested my father because I know his career well. It was absolutely obvious for me.
He is a surveyor and the head of a big company which name is Geodézia Zrt. It is a closely held
corporation. I made an interview with him about communication and I asked those questions
which we decided in the group. It was severe. I had to balance the success of the businessmen in
my environment and he was the best. The suggested person who had to be proper for the criterias
which we set in for choosing the most effective communicator. It was succesful, because my
group chose my interviewee. In addition the honest conversation was very important for me and I
knew that my father will be candor and outspoken with me. That was true. Maybe another person
would not able to be honest. I have no friends from the business life in Hungary who achieved
their aim. Indeed I made my best choice. After that I showed the interview to my groupmates and
they liked it very much. He is in accordance with the criterias.
In our group all of us did one’s share from the construction of the interview protocol and the
overall task. Everybody wrote few questions for the report. We chose from these questions and
discussed the procession of the conversation and the protocol things as well. For instance the first
question was about personal detailes. Who is the interviewee, how old is she or he and where
does she or he work in what position. Every member of the group made some contribution for
the task. I for example helped in making questions for the interview. The easiest part of this task
was to collect good questions.
Our group chose F. Imre for an effective communicator. My personally feelings about this
decision was very good because it made my things easier than before. I knew him better then the
others. It is better to write and analyze a person who you know privately. In my opinion it was a
very good choice because by comparing with the other interviewees he is the most experienced in
business and also in communicating. He gave us good advices too.
My personal communication style in the group was direct. I prefer this style because this style is
peculiar for me and this is the easiest way of speaking. The other members of the group prefer the

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direct communication style as well. So it was plausible for us. It was severe to make this group
work together. It is very important to think similarly in a group for the members. They used direct
communication with their interviewee but in a formal way because not all of them interviewed a
familiar person. In my opinion they had harder task. For example for me more difficult to speak
to a person who I don’t know personally.
I got a lot of experience from this analysis about the communication styles. For example not
always the formal communication is the best but of course it can be useful at the beginning of the
conversation. I have to learn how can I improve my style to lead the dialog without the other
half’s recognition. We asked our interviewees to tell us some good advice. My respondent told
me that nowdays it is very important to start the conversation with an expressed welcome besides
with a decidedly introduction. The other hand is the writing. Today most of the young
businessmen can not write a good formal letter but it can influence your conversation after the
other half reads it. I have to change my favourite communication style because I can not use every
kind of remains. It can be important in business. If you want to lead a talk you have to be flexible
and adapt to your partner. You have to feel and find out his or her favourite style. That is the way
of being succesful. You can not choose only one style because everybody do the same. The
winner can be that person who knows more than the others. I hope that I can learn most of these
styles but I have to see life to collect observations about conversations. I hope I will have
illuminating talks to learn from these.
The other good advice was about flexibility. If it is not working it’s better to finish the
communication and make an other appointment to finish it. Let the other to think over again the
subject. It can be a good protraction.
The last thing is the difference between the formal and the informal communication style. I have
to learn the good time and the good place of using one of these or sometimes both. You can not
use informal style with a manager who has higher seniority. Certainly in most cases the superior
has the oppurtinity of choosing the style but if you are adeptly you can change the dialog to your
way.
Finally the most valuable thing was a statement from my interviewee: You can not learn enough.