Reflection On Interpersonal Communication

Interpersonal Communication is a very important ingredient in making strong, healthy relationships. Communicating is how we get a better understanding of one another’s perception of things, as well as how we help someone to better understand ours. We need to express our feelings in relationships and know that they are reciprocated. Not communicating leads to problems and misunderstandings. People need to learn to understand what the other person is trying to communicate. Interpersonal communication is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages: it is face-to-face communication. It is about what is said, how it is said, and the use of non-verbal communication through

The movie The proposal has many concepts but a few are nonverbal, self disclose and interpersonal conflict. The Proposal is about a woman who is faced with deportation. Margaret Tate is a successful chief-editor of the Ruick & Hunt Publishing in New York. When her visa expires she creates a scheme to marry her employee Andrew and offers him a promotion if he goes through with her plan.

* Body Paragraph #3 - Differentiate appropriate levels of self-disclosure and emotional intelligence in various relationships.

A day in the life of a veterinary technician may include answering clients’ questions, providing written or verbal instructions regarding care of an animal, answering the telephone,

Just as self concept seemed a vicious circle, where this affects that and that effects this; relational development is the same. Relational development can alter our lives and our communication, while communication issues can alter our relational development and our lives. The relational perspective is a pragmatic one and focuses on the continuance of communication processes through relationships. (Rogers, 2004.) Relationships go through a series of stages. The initial and first encounter to a relationship is called the initiating stage. While in this stage, two people attempt to create favorably impressionable first impressions. In this stage you will look for cues about the other person’s personality, attitude, beliefs, and values so that you can progress the relationship. If the relationship continues and impressions are favorable than the two people move to the second stage, also known as the experimenting stage. In this stage people reveal themselves further but not completely since the stage is still a precarious one. If a common ground and understanding of each other is obtained then the relationship moves to the next stage, the intensifying stage. In this stage shared experiences becomes common and self disclosure is open. The next stage is the integrating stage, this is where the individuals usually become a couple. They have shared interests and attitudes, and sometimes talk or act alike. The other individual becomes like your other half. If things go awry than relationships often shift to the circumscribing stage. This is when couples start to self disclose less and less to the other person. Then comes the stagnating stage. At this point there is no communication and no activity between the two people. Sometimes there is an

This course on Interpersonal Communication has opened my eyes to the importance of effective communication as it relates to personal 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 we 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.

Competence in interpersonal communication can be assessed both through general interpersonal interactions and non-verbal communication. Both general competence and non-verbal competence are very important to the way that we communicate and have great influence on the message that we relay to those with whom we communicate. After watching the conversation recorded between Matt and I, I have realized that although there are some areas in which I am a competent communicator, there are areas where I could benefit to improve.

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.

the two become close and they find themselves expressing their feelings to each other without

Our ability to communicate well with others is important to personal and professional success. The interpersonal communications course is planned to help us in being familiar with the system of effective, and to assess our own interpersonal ability to sharpen our critical understanding of the communication, also to improve the interpersonal skills. Mainly assess our interpersonal skills and to put in goals for improving our communications ability. To development of self-concept and identity are examined as basics for understanding personal communication. We explore our own communication behaviors and to identify areas of personal strengths and

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.

Over this summer course I have learned a lot about communication. I learned how significant nonverbal and verbal communication is, along with listening. I never fully understood how big communication is in our daily lives. I now realize that it is a huge aspect of how we continue in our lives. This course has showed me different levels of communication.

Since I was a child, I have naturally suppressed my emotions. Perhaps it was the way I was raised by my parents or me conforming to societal gender roles as a male, but I have never liked it when people know what I am thinking or feeling. However, as I have grown up and become more aware of my emotional management and intelligence, I started to realize not only the importance of being cognizant of my emotions but also the emotions of others. Therefore, I want to reflect and delve deeper into how I express my emotions and relate to the emotions of my relationship partners, close friends, and family members.

When I spoke with Sheena you immediately noticed that she has been involved in several years of college and work ethic. The outfit she picked out shows that business and professional work is what she is into. Her voice was mellow and smooth throughout the conversation and had thorough answers. Her word choice matched her age and personality. Through the whole conversation she was comfortable with answering the questions.

Today I worked with Level C again. During my last class, I found out that each week the lessons focus on different topics. This week’s topic is communication. For this lesson the teacher decided on phone calls for different purposes such as booking appointments, inviting someone, accepting or declining invitations, etc. as well as the non-interactive aspect of modern communication like leaving a voicemail. She wanted to do a simulation exercise. As usual, she started with giving them some vocabulary words. The students were then divided into pairs and given some handouts with instructions. There were six pairs. Each pair was to create phone conversations based on the situations listed in the handouts. They would later be called in front of the class where the teacher would pick a situation from the list and they had to act it out. To demonstrate what we wanted them to do, the teacher and I did one of the exercises. We sat with our backs to each other and acted out a phone conversation. Then we moved around the class helping the students understand the background that was given for each situation and to find the right words that they wanted to use. We corrected their grammar and pronunciation along the way. We let the students perform the first few exercises sitting in their own seats to make them comfortable, but for the last six situations, they came in front of the class to perform. They found it very funny when I made the ringing sound for the first pair, but then they