It is safe to say that everyone has or will encounter an occasion where they will experience a challenging communication interaction. Unfortunately, I had the opportunity to experience a few, with my most recent altercation involving an administrative assistant at an eye care center in Charlotte, NC. A week prior to experiencing my conflict, I called the eye care center to place an order for new contact lens. The customer service, via phone, was professional and polite. Purposely, I asked the administrative assistant would my contacts be ready for pick up for the following Thursday. I asked this question simply because I do not live in the area and I would only be able to pick up my order on that particular day. Politely and with much confidence, …show more content…
After I gave the administrative assistant my information, she began to look around for my package. With a puzzled look on her face, her hands probed around her office as she searched for my order. She stopped her search and asked, “Are you sure she did not pick them up already?” Confused as in who she was referring to, I explained to her that the contacts belongs to me and that I am sure that they were not picked up. She continued to look for my order and then begins to say, “Well, did anyone call to inform you that they were here?” I replied, “No, but I called a week ago and I was informed that my package would be here by this date.” I was beginning to grow impatient with her because at no point she admitted to not being able to find my package. With a slight attitude in her voice, she continued to ask if someone else picked up my package and even asked if I was sure I purchased my contacts at all. It was at that moment, I became frustrated and explained to her that I felt as if she was blaming me for the absence of my contact order. I advised her to ask her co-worker for assistance with my order, and of course her co-worker had my order the entire …show more content…
Challenging communication interactions can occur at any age; however, you can usually predict the outcome of a conversation depending on the person’s age. My conversation involved a Caucasian female who was in her late 40’s. Therefore, I assumed that our conflict would be resolved in the most mature way. Instead, I surprisingly experienced the “blame game”, which I identify as a child’s response to conflict. Even though the assistant was immature, her age did not hinder her capability to communicate. Her age did however play a role on how I responded to her. As a child it was embedded in me to always respect my elders, so her age helped keep me calm and it allowed me to not step out of
Unit 3.3.1 – How communication with children and young people differs across different age ranges and stages of development
When communicating with adults, it is good to show them that you are not just attentive to hear, but are willing to understand their view and perceptions. The adult needs to feel that they are not demeaned but are upheld. It is important to show the person that they are not outdated but are very much informed, and what you are communicating with them is just an addition to what they
Later in time, I had to contacted Verizon Wireless about the errors on the billing invoice, as I was charged three times than normal amount I paid monthly. Their interactions were showing the intention that they care about me as the customer and to ensure that I will be satisfied with the result of the call. The customer representative had to get a manager involved in this situation to get it resolved. Meanwhile, the representative put me on the hold to ensure that they got the right manager who have the ability to get this situation resolved on the line instead of just transfer me to a different department or representative. This shows that a representative is valuing the customer’s time like my time by taking the time to track down to the bottom of the situation instead transfer me to another representative and then advance in the line query of the customers. I was able to
One of the most emotionally significant situations that happened to me was, finding out that my youngest son and another football team mate got into an altercation during a football practice. I arrived to pick up my son and found the coach speaking to him and another boy on the field. This conversation lasted at least 10 minutes so I knew that something must have happened. After the talk with the coach, my son came over to me in tears. I immediately felt protective of my son because he was obviously hurting. I asked him to tell me what had happened, but he was very overcome with emotion and unable to speak. I immediately felt anger that someone might have hurt my child either verbally or physically. My initial anger was at the coach, feeling
In my line of work, communication is important. As a healthcare professional whatever information I choose to communicate must be clear and precise since a miscommunication could potentially harm a patient. This event occurred just a few days ago at work; I had a patient on a mechanical ventilator with an extensive medical history that included end-stage renal disease (ESRD). He was in the ICU on CRRT, which is a bedside dialysis. I immediately noticed that he was breathing very fast which caused a drastic drop in his CO2 levels. I expressed my concerns to the patient’s nurse as well as my supervisor on that night. We tried brainstorming, and my supervisor finally said “just drop it to 8.” Since the patient was breathing fast, and the way to
In June 2012, standing at Parade Rest in front of my supervisor, I had to explain myself for making another soldier feel belittled. Staff Sergeant Waschler, the Treatment Noncommissioned Officer, criticized my interpersonal skills due to the teaching method I used to explain patient assessments and documentation to a fellow soldier. Besides remorse, a plethora of emotions beleaguered my mind including fear, surprise, and guilt during this encounter. Perplexed by all of this, I felt absolute regret since I had no intention of making the soldier feel disparaged. Staff Sergeant Waschler dismissed the soldier and explained to me that my teaching methods may not work effectively on every person and therefore a teacher must adjust their interpersonal
Competency area number three i feel is where i have developed a lot of my strengths. Through out the semester i have built rapport and engage clients in a collaborative and respectful helping relationships. I have done this by just helping the students everyday that I am here with their home work. I use uses effective interpersonal communication and SSW skills ( ex. empathy, active and reflective listening skills etc.) to develop rapport/engage and understand the clientele concerns, needs and perceptions of the difficulties
Every day I face obstacles in communication and especially when trying to effectively express my emotions. My two year old has a heart condition. That means strict schedule, making sure she does not exert too much energy, or get overly hot. All these things can affect her heart rate. While some of my friends and family understand our strict schedule of nap time and bed time along with other restrictions others do not. I have had to explain why these conditions are set and why it is so important to keep with them. It is not because of what I want but it is protecting my daughter’s best interest. I sometimes get emotional and overwhelmed when they just keep pushing. However, after explaining all the reasons why we need to keep to our schedule people are a little more understanding.
Every day, communication continues to evolve and find new mediums for its transportation. With the technological advances in our global community, we have been able to revolutionize not only our lives, but our work places as well. For instance, the electronic mailing system, also known as e-mail, provides an amazing manner of transporting communication digitally in our daily personal and business-related lives.
There are two communication breakdowns as regard about the Age generation and the Noise environment in the background is very disturbing. As of age generation, sometime, when socialize with younger adult, it can cause different misunderstood communication. For instance, sometime, my daughter and I have a communication and we sometime we misunderstand each other whether we use SIM/COM or
It is noticed how one’s intrapersonal communication can impact their interpersonal communication. This can be experienced throughout many aspects and specific examples of ones self communication and communication with others, which can be expressed through experiences in lab seminar as well as personal experiences. Firstly, this is seen throughout my own self as I compare myself to others, and feel as if I am always the inferior. Secondly, my ability to grow from a closed off, shy individual to a more open, outgoing person has impacted my communication with others tremendously. Thirdly, my ability to empathize with people is my area of strength and listening, as well as maintaining eye contact, are areas I need to improve on. Lastly, when
Strategies in communication are needed to receive the best possible outcome for ourselves and those around us. Effective communication is a person’s ability to adjust their strategies to suit the uniqueness of the situation and person they are communicating with. “Those who behave assertively are acknowledging both their rights as individuals and the rights of other people.” (Dwyer 2013, 55)
I recently had an experience dealing with Bureaucratic bounce. I called the at&t customer care to get an issue resolved regarding my bill. First problem with the agent was that I couldn’t understand him due to his accent in his voice, second when I was trying to explain the problem he was having a hard time understand me, and kept cutting me off, third after going back and forward with him for about 10 minutes. He offered to transfer me to someone else, because he didn’t know how to take the charge off the bill. I became very frustrated because I felt as if this could have all been avoided if he would have taken the time out to listen to me at the beginning of the call. I became upset and ended up closing my account.
Interpersonal communication greatly enhances the ability to realize your optimum performance. The interpersonal communication skills of listening, questioning and feedback are crucial to excel in the discipline/field of the arts. By applying these skills on and off the set, behind the camera and in front of it, the benefits are plentiful; when these skills are utilized each party’s, feeling are acknowledged, as such respect is conveyed. The acknowledgment and discussion with variation in thoughts, opinions and knowledge can induce the river of creativity to flow fluidly, the current of an idea to evolve into a greater inspiration of imagination or allow and encourage the opportune knowledge to revel in a deeper understanding of the depicted
Communication is a key ingredient of development and social life. Satell (2015) posits that communication is the modern-day’s most important skill. Like other aspects of personal development such as self-awareness, acquisition of effective communication skills is a long-term process. Also, communication refers to the art of conveying our thoughts, feelings and ideas to others through a medium. Flashing back to my younger years informs me that I have continuously acquired excellent communication skills with time and practice. This is evidenced by my improved interpersonal relationships with my friends, classmates and family members as well as strangers.