Communication Inter Reflection

1. My feelings about Interpersonal Communication has changed drastically over the course of this semester at the beginning of this semester I thought that “interpersonal communication is people exchanging information, weather it is just by body language, a text message, a group chat, and even just emojis being sent back and forth.” Throughout the course of this semester I have learned and become more aware of how interpersonal communication actually does influence us every second of everyday. I never use to feel this way, but after being in this class I realized it is. Interpersonal communication is online, in person, long distance, and so much more.

Today was the first day of class and it worked fairly well overall. I was primarily concerned with just getting my bearing and understanding how the class would operate, I learned how most of the classes would involve a mix of physical activity, acting practice and a little bit of lecture time. The only actual acting that took place was the reading of the academic honesty pledge. Even so, I still think that I got some good practice and feedback out of it, my pacing is very good and I’m definitely much more confident than I ever was back in high school. I do still need to learn to better prepare myself immediately before I begin my piece. I anticipate I will have a lot more to write about in my next entry when class starts in earnest.

that we explore why she’s been feeling down lately together. Mary then said, “Talk about what?” I then stated, “Why have you been feeling down lately?” Mary then stated, “No I don’t want to talk about that?” Using mirroring I then stated, “You don’t want to talk about why you feel down?” Mary then stated “No I don’t”. What occurred here can be described as a disconnection. Whether it be my working or something that happened with Mary prior to me coming in or Mary was just not having a good day, I was not able to connect her in conversation and she disengaged. Again in a non- judgmental tone I repeated what Mary stated so that she knew I had heard her, I was not dismissing her feelings. Mary from the beginning was very agitated so I knew that I probably would get much dialogue from her, maybe it was the nature of our discussion because I was asking her

Tracy, a female, could not walk down the corridor without a male employee making sexist comments. Moreover, Tracy’s statement of the organization hiring females and minorities shows that she disagrees with its plan. When she was hired, the organization focused on the best-qualified candidate not that she was a female, but her qualifications (Coman, & Ronen, 2009). Furthermore,

As nursing students, we spend time during our clinical rotation, we spend a lot of time with nurses during their care. Each clinical week since the beginning of the program, I account practices that would put patients at risk as well as practices that are quality of care that improve patients’ outcomes. Among the practices that could place the patients at risk are medications administration error and effective hand off communication.

From my understanding, professional communication, whether electronically or in person refers to the various forms of responding, writing, speaking and effective listening carried out both in and beyond a workplace. To me, it is the practice of oral, written and interpersonal communication that is complete, accurate and understandable to its audience. Doing this takes research, analysis and the mastering of the three interrelation elements of organization, language and design and illustration. According to professor Lim, one of the main components of this course is to read and write critically, present summaries and arguments using research and analysis and convey thoughts and ideas in a consistent manner. I can confidently say I have accomplished this by taking HIS263. The essay component of this course has allowed me to critically review several historic and scholarly articles and evaluate and summarize the information presented. As well as, make inferences and collect key information from the article

One big factor of unequal treatment at the office is that women aren’t taken as seriously as men are. For example, an article in the Telegraph states: “87 per cent [of women]believe...they have been passed over for promotion because of their gender.” (Lambert). Even though

Gender and race are often synonymous with one’s place in organizational power structure. Those individuals who occupy the top positions have a tradition in maintaining traditional rules and procedures related to hiring, seniority, and other personnel practices that work to their advantage and exclude others. A good example is that corporate policies and practices can subtly maintain the status quo by keeping men in positions of corporate power. Boards of directors, which are mostly comprised of men, sometimes perpetuate the status quo by selecting CEO’s who look like them. Other gender based barriers include behavioral and communication styles that differ vastly from the company’s norms and women’s lack of opportunity to gain general management and or line

Communication II, only the first of many I will endure, was a successful one. This course was to make us better writers, and I certainly have improved. In this progress report, I will be discussing my strength and weakness, summary and respond by both audience and professor, and ways I learn to properly and effectively write each major reports, and my writing has improved in many ways.

I was surprised that the majority of our class was distributed in the centre of the bell curve and were ambiverts. To me, a lot of the class display very extroverted qualities and so I assumed that they must be extroverts. I didn’t consider that sometimes the environment or necessity results in the outward projection of one personality type while the opposite may be more accurate. I think this is probably very similar to society in general both the results and my surprise at the results. I don’t think many people realize that there is an in between and varying degrees of that in between and I think that this could be problematic in communication because you may misunderstand someone and their communication style when trying to use attunement and perspective-taking. Because of the nature of this problem, I think the best way to counteract this is to ask questions because often times what is projected is not necessarily the whole or even an accurate representation of the whole picture. Asking what someone needs is almost always better than assuming or projecting your assumptions on someone else.

To attempt reducing sex discrimination, the first step is for society to recognize its existence according to the feminist theory (Reskin, 2000). A business woman is passed on a promotion within her company, for a man got it, although she has seniority and more experience; and a male nurse is passed on head of nurses’ promotion, for a female nurse, according to the hospital, has more nurturing traits, although he is as friendly, nurturing, and caring, without mentioning, he also has seniority and more experience. These are examples of overt discrimination since they are obvious, in both situations, by each person knowing employment qualifications and longevity of the other. Similarly, there are examples of covert discrimination; however, these are difficult to notice. Both men and women might be discriminated against if they are applying for an out-of-role job, meaning, the

As I was watched my video and looking at my transcripts, I realized that the student to teacher talk ratio was not even. I did most of the talking in my lesson which shocked me. When I was teaching the lesson, I thought I had provided plenty of times for students to discuss and become engaged. I was wrong. In my transcripts, I counted how much I talked in each segment and was surprised with my results. In segment one, I spoke 41 times alone out of 69 transcripts lines. My students talked 28 times. This means my students spoke only 40% and I spoke 60% of the time in segment one. As I broke down the teacher to student talk ratio for the other two segments, student talk decreased. In segment two, I spoke 32 times and students only got 17 times. Out of 49 lines in total, students only got to talk 17 times which means students talked was 35% and teacher talk was 65% of the time. I thought that was bad but, in segment three, I talked 44 times and students only talked ten times. Students only talked 18% of the time and I did 82%. This is shown in the graph shown below.

I implement reflective metacommunication, which is thinking about communication after it happens. I do this in many different ways. For one, I always think about a discussion after it took place, I sit and reflect on everything that took place after the fact, and most of the time I can understand what the other person was talking about, or how their body language was saying something completely different from what I was thinking. Also, I implement reflective metacommunication by thinking of things that I could have said after the conversation is over with. I could certainly improve on my adaptive communication this will help me communicate with others even if they cannot participate in spoken communication. I usually think about and plan out

As we are getting closer to our time in the clinical setting and interactions with patients, reality is setting in that we’ll be working with real people now. Ones that have voices, some that aren’t always nice, or some that need a little bit more patience and understanding to get through a procedure. How are we supposed to deal with some of these challenging situations so that we and our patients end our time together with positive feelings?

There is a significant difference between my perception of communication at the beginning of this course compared to now. Initially, I was aware communication was an important skill people needed to have, but I wasn’t fully aware of the depth of communication. I never realized there were such a variety of behaviors and characteristics that impacted the ability for people to communicate effectively. Once I started completing the self-assessments my perspective was broaden and I gained helpful insight into my own communication strengths and weaknesses. With each self-assessment I truly felt I was getting to know myself better.