Communication Observation Essay

Communication Apprehension can be very challenging at times. I know it is a very complicated thing to deal with and many people really have issues with it to the point where it literally affects their work experience. I can remember a situation that I was in at work. I was told that I had to present an award to the principal at a school program that was going on at work. I was told that I would have to get on stage and speak to the audience about the type of person that she was. I was like, do you want me to lie, because she clearly didn't do the things that she was supposedly getting the award for. I was just flabbergasted about the whole situation. I did not agree with who they were presenting the award to. I believe in being fair and I know that we voted on who would receive the award and everyone that I talked to said that they had voted for someone else, so, I was trying to figure out how in the world did it end up like this. …show more content…
Of course, we decided this among ourselves, so no one else knew of our plans. Well anyway, I am very stage fright and I really didn't agree with the outcome so I knew that I would have a hard time presenting this award. To make a long story short, I asked another coworker to present the award because I just could not do it. I turns out that, I was the one to receive an award and I still had to go on stage in front of all of these people and speak. This was the most uncomfortable situation that I had ever been in, in my whole life. I was so nervous that I could hardly breathe. I was like, someone could have told me so I could have prepared myself for this. I took the self-test for Communication Apprehension and my scores