Interpersonal Communication Reflection

Since the consequences of bad interpersonal communication are dissatisfactory in the professional, social, and humane world, an interpersonal communication college course took me on a remarkable journey to strengthen my communication skills with other people, professionals, and myself. From the beginning, I knew my nursing and personal responsibility to learn the expertise of the subject matter at hand a must to further my career efforts and goals. The eureka effect, or a-ha moment, did its justice with each study module in place. Doors of personal and interpersonal insights open, when needed, or close, when not needed, in applying the effects of self-assessments within the course to myself, other people around me, and my relationships. In this paper, I will reflect on the moments of self-realization by the use of self-actualization and focus on the future of my interpersonal communicational life learned in this college course.

Throughout this semester reading about different ways of interpersonal communication I came to the realization that there were many things I could work on to better myself as a person. Things I never thought about in depth until taking this class. Areas I have improved on throughout this semester are using I language more than the use of you language, what empathy was and how I choose to become better and lastly how I deal with conflict.

On Monday 23 May 2016, at approximately 1339hrs, I 6246 Leading Rate Joseph S was in my office at the Welfare/Housing department located at #31 St. Vincent Street Port of Spain. Present in the office at the time was Sgt Cassie R and L/Cpl Neptune. Whilst performing my daily duties in the office, I was about to use the telefax machine to make a copy of a document which is not an unusual function carried out by the members of the office. As I was about to do so, I was stopped by Sgt Cassie who said “yuh can’t copy nuttin they.” Being a bit confused about his uttered word I asked the question “why Sgt Cassie.” He then replied in a loud tone “don’t make no fucking copy LR.” I responded to the Sgt by saying “I am a grown woman bordering Petty

Since the start of this class, I have been reminded again and again that the concepts we are learning can be applied to everyday life. For instance, when we talked about non-verbal communication, I realized that it is impossible to not communicate. There are many activities, other than the use of language, that allow us to draw meaning from something we observe. When my mother widens her eyes at me without stating a word, I understand she is telling me to think twice about the action I’m about to take. It has been great to be able to assign concepts and vocabulary to interpersonal relationships and communication activity that I have been experiencing. Now let me introduce you to my friend Izzy and her boyfriend Ken as I analyze the

Starting with emotional wellness, I am self-aware of my emotions. In society today, the display of emotions is discouraged, and although my emotions were constantly repressed, I learned to embrace them and adopted the importance of self-awareness from the social work field to better help others. Continuously, I am an introvert, so I am constantly analyzing myself and find ways to improve. I recognized when I am stress, I need to step back to not let my emotions drive me, hence being painfully honest. Instead, I express I need space to deal with my emotions and go back to my homeostasis before resuming a conversation. I do acknowledge I prefer to avoid conflict and need to learn how to resolve conflict in healthy ways.

Emotional regulation is the ability of an individual to influence the experience, expression, intensity, or duration of emotions during an emotionally distressing event (Gross, 1998). The two main emotion regulation strategies are cognitive reappraisal, or reevaluating an emotional situation in order to regulate emotions, and expressive suppression, or restricting the expression of emotions (Gross, 2007). Many researchers agree that the emotion regulation strategy employed most often by an individual can have a significant effect on their life (e.g., Arnold, Connelly, Walsh, & Martin Ginis, 2015; Buruck, Dörfel, Kugler, & Brom, 2016; Deater-Deckard, Li, & Bell, 2015). While both strategies regulate emotions, several studies have found that using expressive suppression can be overall less effective (Buruck, Dörfel, Kugler, & Brom, 2016; Schraub, Turgut, Clavairoly, & Sonntag, 2013).

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.

Taking this Interpersonal Communication course has opened my eyes to the importance of effective communication as it relates to relationships. The information that I’ve learned has inspired me to take a deeper look into how I communicate with my husband. It also provides an understanding regarding the differences in how he and I communicate. The communication style that I use is expressive, the style he uses is instrumental. He also interprets communication different than myself. It’s apparent that our non-verbal communication skills are very different. Additionally, I recognize effective listening to be a weakness in my relationship with my husband. When communicating, we want to get our point across. Attending to the message is never the goal. With the knowledge that I've gained in this class, I intend to apply it with the hopes of consequently enhancing my communication skills. In the following text, I will share my plan with you.

Thank you for contacting me Jasmine. While I am certainly sorry for your and all students' troubles I still must stress the importance of communication with instructors just as you are expected to do in the work place. You would never think of being a "no-call, no-show" at work and neither should you be so in your classes. Any thoughts I have of you are entirely the result of your lack of communicating with me and attempting to maintain a passing grade in the class. There is and old saying that "Silence is golden..." but not when it comes to business and school and your education is definitely business.

We were 6 members in a communication exercise group. Our group, engaged actors in communication scenario’s. Lisa, played by a lovely middle aged woman, was a mother of a child with ADHD. Our task was to elicit Lisa's story her issues and feelings. We all had turns, I’m reflecting on the scene.

The seminar that I lead strived to provide an overview of the role of verbal communication (Chapter 3). Overall, I think that my seminar progressed very well. The seminar consisted of a handout that outlined all the key chapter aspects followed by a deep, thought provoking discussion of relevant concepts. Through discussion, my group members were able to relate to the examples provided as well as expand further and suggest examples from their own experiences.

Were the employees welcoming? The employees were welcoming. Were they friendly, is it good to make friends at work? They were friendly at work, but sometimes it may not work out being friends with fellow employees especially if you are their boss they may expect special privileges. Was there a lot of interaction with other employees or did you work alone (Heathfield, 2017)? The interaction at work was limited, most conversation was in regards to the IT work being completed. What positive things did you learn while you were on the two-month journey? The positive things I learned was how to work with those from a different culture, how different their way of life is from mine. We got to try different ethnic foods, some I never even heard of. What kind of work style would your associates say you have? They would say my work ethic is good, I am very much a team player and motivator. The better we do the better the company does and the greater the incentive in the end. Were there any items that were offensive to you or other employees? The things that were a little offensive were the fact the Texans, and the Germans did things the Qatar who were very religious frowned against drinking, and eating pork, they liked to go to club and enjoy themselves, and relax. Was there a language barrier, if so how were you able to communicate? All of the employees spoke English, maybe with different accents but it was English.

There have been many changes in this fast paced and competitive world and this leads to many challenges that we face in our day-to-day life. Also, communication being one of the most important aspect in this world, where it becomes necessary to express your thoughts and feelings, there are a lot of us who lack in understanding others and themselves. I am one of those people. Hence, I chose this unit to help me self develop learn ways to overcome my problems.

What is communication? Communication is the exchange of information with another person. There are many ways we can communicate: face to face, telephones, emails, etc. When I communicate with people face to face, I feel as if I talk with a neutral volume and that I am not shy unless it is in front a big group of people that I know, then I get nervous. When I used to play football, my coach would call on random people to do the break down. I was one of a few that would never raise my hand to want to break it down. One day, he called on me. I was so nervous because my whole team was listening. Another huge problem that I constantly catch myself doing is stuttering and making awkwardly movements simply because I just was not confident. Whenever I try to prove a point, I stutter because I am not sure if what I am about to say is correct. The worst time this has ever happened to me was in high school. I remember standing up in front of my entire class, I was presenting a project to the point where I forgot what I was saying so I mumbled some information about it, not realizing that nobody understood. As I present, I make very weird awkward movements with my body. Out of nowhere, I was at the conclusion of my project and nobody even understood half the facts I said. Later on, I received my grade and it was a low C.

Last week, my group partners and I had a discussion for the business which was to choose a company that was adaptive to construct in Italy. This group is combined with six students. However, I find a problem that I cannot really reflect my value during the discussion. At the beginning of the discussion, each of us expressed our own opinions that what appropriate companies we knew. As the only foreigner in the group, I know fewer firms than other partners do. I shared information I knew and communicated with them. Then, we had some discussions about everyone’s opinion. I came up with some ideas but I did not know how to express them appropriately to others. On the one side, I could not directly deny others ideas; on the other side, I need