Taking a Look at Interpersonal Communication

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,

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

Have you ever taken into consideration how your intrapersonal communication has an impact on your interpersonal communication? Our interpersonal communication is communication that strives us to create and maintain relationships with others in our life. My interpersonal communication is solely based on my self-concept, self-image, how I perceive myself, my bad and good qualities, and my non-verbal communication.

In “Communication: Its Blocking and its Facilitation” by Carl Rogers: he argues the ineffectiveness of communication through tendencies of evaluation. That it is almost human nature to evaluate and judge while communicating; However, to prevent our natural tendencies of impeding communication we must learn to avoid it by coming to an understanding of the others perspective within the conversation.

This essay is based on an intervention l did with a service user whist on placement. It will describe the incident as well as the purpose of the intervention. The essay will identify the barriers of communication that occurred during the intervention e.g. environmental barriers such as space and noise, emotions such as anxiety, etc. The paper will reflect on the impact these barriers had on the outcome of the intervention. In addition the paper will reflect on the key communication strategies used and analyse their strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore the paper will reflect on the theories and models of interpersonal communication that are relevant to this incident. It will consider how the context and setting influenced the interaction.

After reading this first chapter, I realized how important communication is. I think learning communication in this class will enlarge my personal communication theory that I have learnt in my entire life. At this moment, I am learning about communication everyday through my daily life since I am living and studying abroad. This situation makes me see the basic communication process from outsider’s perspective which helps me see things more clearly. Talking about chapter 1, I personally like the communication process model because it is interesting when I think back to myself when I communicate with people. For example, yesterday I fried spams for my girlfriend and myself for our breakfast. Her spams are really thin while my spams are obviously

1. At the start of this course, I wasn’t familiar with the concepts of interpersonal communication in an academic way. Now that I’ve been in the course, I realize that I was familiar with the concepts as they’ve occurred within my life, although these happenings didn’t have a name. Due to the fact that these concepts didn’t have a name, they weren’t fully acknowledged within my life. For example, I came into this course with a grasp of my conflicts and romantic relationship. I knew the necessities, my needs, his needs, and our areas that needed work. I also was having conflict struggles with my boyfriend’s mother and had what I thought was an understanding of the situation. However, I was struggling to navigate effectively within the

Since this process is ongoing and always changing, when we enter an interpersonal communication exchange, we are entering an event with no definable beginning or ending, and one that is irreversible. An important piece of interpersonal communication to consider is that the words said to one another are final and cannot be simply “taken back”. This is known as the principle of irreversibility which means that what we say to others cannot be reversed. Unfortunately, life does not come with a remote for a do over and these are the moments that influence others perception of you. Due to a variety of experiences shared with different people, each person views you in their own unique way.

Interpersonal communication is the exchange of feelings, information, and meaning between two or more people. These exchanges occur through both verbal and non-verbal messages. Although every person experiences interpersonal communication hopefully every day, not every person is a competent communicator. There is no precise definition of a communication competence, but most agree it is both effective and appropriate. Without one or the other, the communicator will find they are usually misunderstood in their conversations. The good thing is, these people who are constantly misunderstood can learn competence. An addition, intercultural communication competence is the ability to not only effectively and appropriately communicate, but to be able to do this with people of diverse cultures. Personally, I believe I am conscientious and agreeable by nature and find it much easier to communicate appropriately, but not totally effective. My beliefs were confirmed after participating in the assessments throughout the week.

Interpersonal communication is an extremely important aspect of the relationships in our lives. We work everyday to maintain numerous relationships and some of them could use improvement. For me, the relationship with my mother is the one that I chose to take an in depth look at because it is one with the greatest significant in my life. My mom and I have had our ups and downs and most of the downs are attributed to our communication. Taking a deeper consideration of these problems and applying the knowledge that I have learned in this class would greatly improve our relationship and lead to more productive communication. The most substantial problems in our communication come from our misbehaviors in listening, lack of empathy and understanding for the others point of view and our lack of communication.

What is interpersonal communication? Interpersonal communication is a “selective, systemic process that allows people to reflect and build personal knowledge of one another and create shared meaning” (Wood, 2016, ppg 14). Selective is a less personal and less engaging manner of interpersonal communication. This would typically take place with a surveyor. The conversation would not really engage beyond the intent of the call. The other is systemic this means that it takes place in various fashions and there are several elements to the model. Interaction and engagement is more typical of a systemic way (Wood, 2016).

We live in a society that is based on Individualism, rely on being independent and having the ability to make our own decisions. When I moved away from home to attend college, I became independent and had the ability to make my own decisions. When moving to college a big decision I had to make was where I was going to live and who I was going to live with. This year, I choose to live with two other friends in a big red house. At first it started off great, but the more time went by, conflict started to occur between my roommate and myself. Now with everything that has happened I am deciding if I want to still have a friendship with my roommate. Living in an individualistic society, I have the right to decide who I am friends with and who I don’t want to have a friendship with. Everyone at some point in their life has faced losing a friendship because of conflict and their own decisions. I will be trying to analyze this example from an interpersonal communication standpoint, by using the Social Exchange theory to help understand this social phenomenon.

As the old adage goes, God gave people two ears and one mouth to remind them to listen twice as much as they speak. Satterlee (2013) defines interpersonal communication as “person-to-person conversation; it’s an exchange that occurs through dialogue between two people or through discussion among several, with participation by everyone involved.” (p. 134). Because interpersonal communication involves two or more individuals, it stands vital for manager to hold the skill of listening. It is this authors supposition that if a manager is willing to make a conscious effort to improve this major communication skill, then their perceived reputation as well as their effectiveness will rapidly jump from a poor manager to a fantastic manager.

Abstract In psychology, there are various steps towards an effective interpersonal communication. In this paper, principles of communication will be discussed and a personal experience will be given to relate into those principles. The Blocks of Communication The building blocks of communication vary in various principles. Those principles are called verbal messages, nonverbal communication, emotions and emotional messages, and the principles of conversation. Each of the principles engages in specific speciality for an effective interpersonal communication. Communication is used on numerous occasions; the practical use of efficient interpersonal interaction will improve connections towards another. Moreover, lucrative way of life begins with an excellent quality of communication around your surroundings. Principles of Verbal Messages In communication, there are two main signal methods, which involves verbal and nonverbal messages. This section focuses on verbal messages rather than nonverbal messages. At this point, verbal messages are spoken or written words sent to one another. Verbal messages depend on how the person means when he or she says something. The meaning of a word does not necessarily mean the same, as it is defined in a dictionary. Therefore, it is said that verbal messages are both denotative, which denotes objectivity, and connotative, which denotes subjectivity. At the same time, the principle can be onymous, where the sender of the message is clearly