I ended up having more than two people evaluate my communication because each score I received was within 2-4 points of how I scored myself. I wanted to see if I looked beyond family and colleagues if people perceived me differently. Well all the scores that I gathered where nonetheless the same, but this did come to a surprise to me.
The verbal aggression quiz was the most interesting. I think of myself as a passive person and I try to avoid conflict. I came out in the moderate section, which I am glad that I did. I thought that I might score in the no verbal aggression. I was happy to see that both my scores and my colleagues/friends scores were the same, I guess I am not as passive as I thought I was. This is good for me to know because sometimes I lack the confidence to stand up for what I am fighting for, this quiz shows me that I am using effective strategies to get my point across without demeaning the other person.
I was also not surprised that I fell into group one on the learning styles quiz. I am very trusting of people that I am working with, parents, friends, etc. I have noticed that sometimes this does not treat me very well. For example, this year I fully trusted a parent and we had really great communication about her son. One day the physiologist that I worked with came to me and that parents had called her to express how much she disliked me and everything I was doing. I felt we had built a strong rapport and we were communicating the way she wanted to communicate. I ended up referring to my notes in all of our communication and responded to her with dated information on all of her complaints about me. Since then I feel that I have lost trust in her and I cannot believe what she is telling me because she could just go behind my back and do it all over again.
I too found this assignment interesting. I am more of an aggressive communicator, so I learned that sometimes this is a down-fall. I am trying to be more patient in my communications and interactions.
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I had to recognize how much I did learned this week about the Who am I as a communicator. I understand that this course has gone deep into the point, that I had visualize and learned about our self to developed healthy environments in the future. Thanks to colleagues like you, I had learned more and put an interest to admire communication: the way I do it and the way it should be done for future benefits. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI have to agreed that being trusting of people can sometimes put us into awkward situations. However the reward is that it is beautiful feeling to value others. Today's society lacks a lot of that so don't be discourage continue to support people.
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