For your blog this week, think about the similarities and differences between how you evaluated yourself as a communicator and how others evaluated you. What is the one thing that surprised you the most? Why? What other insights about communication did you gain this week? Choose at least two to share with others through your blog and consider how each might inform your professional work and personal life.
This assignment allowed me to examine myself as a communicator and to also see how others viewed my communication skills. I had a close family friend and my teaching assistant conduct the evaluation. The one thing that surprised me was that my close friend scored me fairly high in the "Verbal Aggressive" quiz. I don't see myself like that and neither did my coworker. It made me examine the types of interactions and behaviors that are present in my personal life that I don't show in my professional life. I think this assignment helped me to see that I need to work on verbal aggressiveness. I still don't see myself as a person that personally attacks during conversation. I think that this friend was biased because of a recent "tough" conversation we had or I'm in extreme denial : )
This week I learned that our personal schemas can effect how we look at a person, the body language, attire, and other physical features to determine how we will communicate with them. The discussion board was interesting this week. I would still like to know how close we were to the details we guessed for our mystery woman.
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