Reflection About Communication

Communication isn’t just about talking. There are so many different elements to communicating in society. How a person gestures, the tone in an individual’s voice, an expression on a person’s face, how a person listens is all a part of communicating. As we all know, in order to communicate with one another we must be able to listen. I think in society people think that communication is all about speaking but in reality it is just a little piece to a bigger picture. In today’s society, listening seems to be a skill that is being neglected. Even though it is basically the first communication skill that we are exposed to, we have pushed it aside and chose speaking to dominate our lives. Researchers have discovered that fetuses can process incoming sounds during the last trimester of pregnancy, and that by 12 months children have learned sounds of and rules of their native language(Worthington, 3). This shows that children’s abilities to speak, read, write and reason are influenced highly by how well they are taught to listen. As parents we can all be teachers to our children so that they can grow up to be well-rounded communicators.

In this new age of technology, communication has expanded far beyond what anyone could have imagined. The most commonly used method with the younger generations is through text messaging. The first thought that clouds my mind after sending a text message is what reaction it will illicit. The style of texting that I use changes depending on who my audience is comprised of. After graduating high school, a few of my friends and I had decided that we wanted to maintain the bond we developed in AP United States History. We created a group chat in June following commencement as summer was starting and I was heading home to Iraq. It was a place for jokes and making fun of each other with no boundaries. However, now the group chat is in a different place. When four distressed college freshmen and one rambunctious high school senior are sharing a communication medium, the results are bound to be a strange mixture of endearment and preposterousness. Four out of 5 are starting a new chapter in their lives, but are still grasping onto any sort of connection to their ‘glory’ days. Comfort and reassurance is found in one another as we try to navigate through school for the first time without each other.

Intro. Something as simple as communicating can be both a positive and negative thing. Understanding the impact of individual differences across various situations such as explaining the extent of others when they use humor to interact with other people, or how our emotions come into play with other people and Communication traits enable us to be more accurate in out predictions on how others will send and receive messages. With the communication trait questionnaire it helped me learn more about communication behaviors and understand the impact of individual differences across various contexts such as the humor orientation, affective orientation, and argumentative orientation and how I ranked.

In this essay, I intend to reflect on a situation I encountered during my first community placement I had the opportunity to develop my communication skills not just theoretically but also practically, facing a real life environment. My placement made me aware of the importance of interpersonal and communication skills which are very important in the delivery of care. Throughout my nursing career, I will be encouraged to develop reflective practice skills and become a reflective practitioner. Reflection refers to a series of steps that you may take to question and explore an experience with the aim of learning from it. I will discuss the importance of communication in order to maintain a therapeutic relationship.

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.

This commentary will provide a reflection of the author’s key skill competencies, particularly focusing on communication, teamwork, problem-solving, interpersonal skill. A summary of these keys skills will outline the author’s key strengths and areas for future improvement relative to either current weaknesses and or challenges.

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

To begin with, this paper will include seven different concepts that were learned from interpersonal communication. Starting off with the different communication needs and finishing with deception within relationships. To mention a few, also included in the paper are how perception affects communication, Knapp’s stages of relational development and Gottman’s four horsemen of the apocalypse. Each concept will be defined as by the book, Interpersonal Communication, by Kory Floyd (2011). Furthermore, concepts learned will be discussed on how this affects our faith and communication with future relationships.

Upon receiving my special project, I took the opportunity to approach it as a new challenging task but with the commitment to make it a learning and teaching opportunity for myself. The main objective for this project was to enhance my knowledge and to adhere to what is one of my weaknesses, group presentations. I was provided with the assignment of three post conferences to be completed by the end of the semester. When delegating topics to present, I focused on the tentative schedule and selected one disease to present in each post conference. My selection was based on utilizing the time I had, as a benefit for both students and I to learn something that was involved in our curriculum. The topics I choose to discuss in my post conferences

Lately, I have been working on my communication skills and leadership skills at my service learning. I am starting to figure out each child’s personalities and how to work with them. I am also learning how to understand the children’s way of communicating as well. For example, one student will cry and not pronounce all of his words and we have to understand what is wrong with them. To get him to say what is wrong we have to make him go sit in the corner and let him take some time to calm down and use his words.

My education from Creighton University has been quite helpful while at my internship this summer. The things that have stood out to me that I have learned while at this internship include seeing how relationships form, noticing racist and sexist things within the organization, figuring out how the communication within the organization, as well as understanding how my tone of voice can affect the way people perceive me on the phone.

This supports the concept of matching phenomenon, choosing a partner who shares similar rankings of attractiveness and social class levels. I believe they went for each other because they were comfortable with being equally attractive. If one of them went for a partner who was ranked higher on attractiveness they might always fear they are not good enough for their partner. The two did compliment each other quite well. My friend was very quite as she did not party often and was very responsible, where he tended to go out more with his friends and was on the goofier side. Through their differences they were able to benefit each other to change in positive ways. He helped my friend learn it is okay to go out and have a good time once in awhile, and she showed him how it is fun to stay in now and then. She also helped him not get peer pressure by his friends to participate in irresponsible decisions. Over the months he began to change and stopped hanging out with his friends. He realized they were a bad influence and he wanted to respect his opinions of his girlfriend. Although the summer before college, my friend saw a drastic change in her

Though technology has made it easier for communication across distance, I find that maintaining communication depends on one’s own dedication to stay in contact. Having lived in Massachusetts, Colorado, and lastly, Oklahoma, I have gained many friends across the country. I have unfortunately lost some of my friends’ contact information. Regardless, for the purposes of this project I chose to talk to two of my friends in Massachusetts.

In the three communications I’ve written, text,email,and letter to insurance company. All of them had a different approach. Each written text were different people and they all had different responses. The background of the text I wrote to my friend was, my best friend I had known for years and we text every single day. The background of my email I wrote to my dad was tolerant because I not as close to my dad but, also, I should share how’s my life is going to him. In the letter, I wrote to my insurance company, it was urgent because I needed to tell them something needed to be done. They all come together as one whole story told in a different perspective.