Personal Narrative: Improving Communication

How to Run a Meeting is an interesting article that gives details on ways to make a meeting as efficient and effective as possible. Meetings are time-consuming and very important in communicating information or solving organizational problems. To effectively run a meeting there must be planning activities before the meeting and leadership activities to execute during the meeting. Prior to the meeting you must first set objectives. Weather the meeting is meant to share information or solve problems it is important to make it known to everyone why you are meeting. Meeting should be called If the information is complex or controversial, has implication for the participants, or there is a reason it needs to be given personally,

Growing up with a father in the military, you move around a lot more than you would like to. I was born just east of St. Louis in a city called Shiloh in Illinois. When I was two years old my dad got the assignment to move to Hawaii. We spent seven great years in Hawaii, we had one of the greatest churches I have ever been to name New Hope. New Hope was a lot like Olivet's atmosphere, the people were always friendly and there always something to keep someone busy. I used to dance at church, I did hip-hop and interpretive dance, but you could never tell that from the way I look now.

Over my years of school, one big influence on me has always been sports. Ever since a young age, I have always enjoyed playing and watching sports. In my four years in high school, I have fell in love with the sport of lacrosse.

My communication with others has been both negative and positive due to this talent. When I was freshman in high school, there was a female junior student that enjoyed picking on me. This caused me great distress, and I was afraid to do anything about it. I hated going to school knowing I could possibly run into this girl and have her start to bully me. One-day, school was just getting out, and she made an offensive remark to me, which made me realize I had enough. I stood up for myself and said something back to her, as I was tired of dealing with the conflict. To my surprise, that was all I need to do, from that day forward she left me alone. Ryan, a co-worker, sees the positive side of my harmony talent with me at work. He remarked that

A speak is moving on the paper. Tracing every letter with a little spark that flickers. I stick my fingers out to touch it and the instant contact burns me and I drop the paper with a gasp. Light comes up from the ground the second the paper hits the floor, shining so bright it could very possibly light a whole city. I cover my eyes at the brightness of it. The light gets bigger and closer and within less than three seconds, the light surrounds us. I want to scream bloody murder out of pure confusion and fear. Then, I feel as if I'm being sucked forward until my whole body, without my permission, is slowly being lifted off my window seat. I try to grab for Amanda, but everything is gone the second I blink.

I did not think that it would be that difficult for children this age to count by 2’s. I saw that they were using their strategy to solve the total of points that they were gathering. Some were putting two sticks for every point while others were putting the actual number 2 all the way down and adding them as they went. I had a few kids write the numbers by 2’s for example 2, 4, 6, etc…. until they got to 20 points. I had a dotted line with the numbers right beside me but they never once looked at it to see what number came next. What I will do is try to make them count by 5’s or 10’s it would probably be more complex than counting by 2’s. I can provide objects that they can use to count and be able to record the information better.

Throughout my career I have facilitated weekly team meetings, bi-weekly leadership meetings, and monthly officer meetings. These meetings require me to not only facilitate the meetings but present information pertaining to our business, new products and services, etc. Over my 20 years in management, early on, I created communication improvement plans and have participated in monthly Toast Masters sessions, which allow you to present communication in various media’s including verbal presentation. The various communication methods are critiqued real time and improvement plans are created in order to make change and later come back and present again.

I’ve been wanting to change my life,the way I live and the people around me. I’ve been through so many things, but not as tough as losing the opportunity to be able to talk to those who mean so much to you. As I question myself each and everyday that passes, I, like Roger Ebert said that “we must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what are our problems, our health, our circumstances.” (“Roger Ebert: The Essential Man.”). As I think about it I don’t

I hate camp. I hate bonding. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Why do I have to go? It’s stupid anyways. I thought this camp was easy, but as I got ready to leave for camp that morning, I finally admitted that I was wrong.

Since early childhood, I have been focused on improving my life despite the many difficult physical challenges I have endured. Thus, my struggles and journey have become the story of my success, ultimately leading me to pursue as a leader through a health care profession. I was born and grew up in the small village of Alamata, Ethiopia. I lost the use of my legs when I was one-year-old. My aunt was climbing a tree with me on her back when I fell to the ground. My father was seriously ill at the time of my fall, so that his care became the family's medical priority. I got no medical care after my fall. The belief was that if I did not live, my father would be able to father another son when he got well. My father did regain his good health,

My Mom and I are on our way home on a late Sunday afternoon from shopping and soon getting ready for a great family dinner. We call my grandparents, “Hello! How are you doing honey?” They say to my mother as they don’t know I’m in the car and listening.

I opened the box and couldn’t hold back the smile I had on my face, tears brimming. My team did this for me and I know this put them in trouble. ‘’ I thought I lost this in Morocco ‘’ my voice was quiet almost a whisper. ‘’ I know. One our boys went back and retrieved it knowing what it means to you ‘’ Loki smiled. ‘’ Wow thank you ‘’ I mumbled into his shirt. He whipped my tears saying ‘’ don’t you cry love ’’.

Enrolling in this class is particularly important as my communication with my five teenage children have taken a dramatic nosedive since their father and I divorced.

Ten years from now I see myself being healthy, wealthy, and wise. Wealthy though is in the sense that I am financially stable and I am happy. One doesn’t need to be rich to be wealthy. Ten years from now I will be 28 years old, and I think that is a considerable amount of time to try and guess what sort of situations and decisions I will have had to make. However it will be safe to assume that I will have tried to figure out how I am going to pay for college. The most expensive thing in my life right now. I’m definitely renting an apartment or a house. I would like to be married to a nice husband sometime in my late twenties or early thirties. However that is actually not my prime directive in life. Therefore any plans

I’ve always been an average student. Starting from a young age, I have never exceeded expectations. Being surrounded by A+ individuals has made me feel less than others. Elementary school is the time that I felt the most intelligent, being that there were no advanced classes to make me feel degraded. It all changed in fourth grade when my friends were being accepted into Mrs. Husk’s advanced fourth grade class. I remember continuously waiting for the letter that I’ve been accepted. Unfortunately for me, it never came.