Final Paper: Letter of Advice Lawrence Hawkins COM 200 – Interpersonal Communication Inst. Angela Gillette April 23, 2012 Dear, David and Cierra; My advice to you for a healthy and successful relationship is rather lengthy and takes time to perfect, or even get good at. As you know, interpersonal communication, when used correctly, can decrease minor and major conflicts, and increase the happiness and satisfaction in relationships. As well, since we are born communicating, it is only right that we are able to do so without constraint. This letter is to explain, what I believe are, ways to effectively use interpersonal communication in your relationship.
My plan should address the three highlighted competencies of motivation, empathy and relationship. Motivation competency will be addressed in my development plan by documenting and reinforcing the need to build my self-confidence in these relationships, to convey my value added to the management team. This will yield improved recognition for my message as well as validate my presence at the management level. Secondly, working to develop relationships with the management team is key to developing empathy. This will require that I understand and build on the non-verbal clues conveyed by the team, responding accordingly in order to make a connection on a level that works for them.
Communication is a vital skill in social work practice because social work is underpinned by human relationships (Thompson, 2002). It is a tool that can be improved with reflection, experience, training and knowledge. Effective communication acknowledges that it involves interaction between two or more people. There are many kinds of communication to include but I found that I mainly used verbal, body language such as nodding in agreement and so on. Speaking with service users who have a mental health problem can be quite challenging in some cases (Kaprowska, 2005).
Unfortunately, I’ve learned the hard way that sadly not all people are good. I tend to face myself against reality when I don’t want to see the negative in situations. Which is why I have set making good friends as one of my goals. I believe that a friend should never hold you back from your dreams and instead they should be there to help and guide you through the bad, the good, and the ugly. They should be a support system and be there for you as much as you would be there for them and it’s always nice to have good influences as you grow into adulthood.
In my personal life my strengths will help me tremendously. Adaptability could help me in future jobs or relationships. Communication and woo will help to have better relations with people who enter my life and to keep them there. I also like to always think positive. Thinking in positive ways not only makes me feel better about situations, but I know it also helps other people dealing with the situation too.
1.2 Explain how to support effective communication within own job role Within my job role it is important to have good communication skills to develop positive relationships and share information. We communicate as much or maybe more through body language as we do with words; this includes facial expressions, eye contact, our stance or movement of arms, hands and legs. E.g. Effective body communication could be an open body stance, focusing your eyes on the service user or individual. Whereas crossing your arms or legs, sideway glances could block effective communication.
I was surprised that my blind spot was identified to be overconfidence in process because I rarely feel confident in anything. My values were described to be justice and fortitude and resultant behaviors are that I demonstrate courage and steadiness in the face of obstacles and I tend to avoid rash actions. My ethical lens directs my academic behavior by giving me good reasoning skills and allowing me to think through problems carefully and research all options. My ethical lens influences my critical thinking because it allows me to make informed decisions that I find are best for the well-being of everyone around me. I believe that a person’s emotions can influence critical thinking because some people’s ethical lens is more heartfelt and can let them make decisions with their emotions instead of with their knowledge and brain.
Being a counselor will require great analytical, organizational, planning skills, intellectual skills, and creativity in the assessing and overall treatment of my future patients. This test also highlights the areas in which I may need to improve upon in order to be most effective as a counselor. I am confident that I would use this assessment tool with my clients as in my open their eyes to skills and/or attributes they may not have ever realized they possessed as well as possibly providing me with another way to reach my patient should the need arise. In developing a treatment plan for a child that has
Although social intelligence and leadership suppose only positive traits of character, there is no guaranty that these people will always avoid interpersonal challenge. b. This topic is very wide and touches upon different aspects of people’s life. It is also related to the career field of human development and leadership. This career field supposes study of people’s interaction and relationships in different spheres of life; it is aimed at the development of leadership skills and appliance of knowledge of group and human development, and interpersonal processes.
This process of thinking also requires that a person gather more information, and put more thought into thinking. The three most significant things that I learned about critical thinking in this class was that first, in order to become a critical thinker, I must first be able to be an active listener. I did not know that being able to listen well to details so that I will have the right information was important to my critical thinking process. I also learned that critical thinking is a learned process and not something that you automatically do. A person has to teach and train themselves to become a good or even great critical thinker.