Three Strategies to Help Me Communicate
1.
Recognize my own patterns of nonverbal behavior
2.
Talk about subtle behavior differences
3.
Remember the Platinum Rule
These three rules will allow me to be aware of my own body language
and attitude/ biases. It will also allow
for those tough conversations that need to be had to understand if you are offending
someone or not. If we never discuss it, we may never know but I have to be
willing to understand that people cannot assume, and I must say how I feel. Nonverbal behaviors are a process of
communicat9ng without words, which can be intentional or unintentional cues
that that give about our emotions (O’Hair, 2018). The platinum rule is to treat
others the way they want to be treated and that means to get out of my own
feelings or head and consider how someone else is feeling.
O’Hair, D., Wiemann, M., Mullin, D. I., & Teven, J.
(2018). Real communication: An introduction (4th. ed). New York:
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Gonzalez-Mena, J. (2010). 50 strategies for communicating
and working with diverse families. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
Education, Inc.
Sharita,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the video of effective communication. I am a visual learner, so I enjoyed your video immensely! It gave a great example of the Platinum Rule and how to apply your eyes, ears, and gut to communicating effectively. In the digital age of communication, it broadens further learning by exposing children to various accents, languages, countries, and continents of different ethnicities. Internet is now, “a new stage of web-based technology in which digital technologies will be embedded in all aspects of daily life” (O'Hair et al., 2018).
Reference
O’Hair, D., Wiemann, M., Mullin, D.I., & Teven, J. (2018). Real communication: An introduction (4th. Ed). New York: Bedford? St. Martin’s.
I love that you added a video. It is important to recognize our own verbal behavior and non verbal behavioral skills.
ReplyDeleteSharita,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I love that you added a video, because I am a visual learner. This is a clear indication that you work on communication skills with colleagues in order to better understand their perspective. I agree that it is important to recognize or verbal behavior as well as our non-verbal behavior. I have always been taught that our actions can change what our spoken words mean.
Great Blog Sherita. The video added so much content and valuable information. So often we think we are being effective in our communication and that the other person perceive the information correctly but as the video demonstrated so well, its often miscommunicated, which leads to other issues and problems. Thanks for sharing.
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