You are to fill out the following worksheet that analyzes one aspect of your communication skills over the course of this semester. Please follow the steps below.
Choose one problem that you currently have with communication with one person in your life.
THE PROBLEM
1) Who the person is you have chosen? ____________________________________
2) Briefly describe your relationship with that person (How do you know them? What
is your relationship like?) _________________________________________________
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3) Describe (with examples) the communication problem you are having with that person. ____________________________________________________________
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4) Write out a sample dialogue, a typical conversation you have had with that person that illustrates the problem you are having.
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5) Choose ONE communication topic from this class that relates to the problem you are having (circle it):
distorted self concept, self fulfilling prophecy, perception checking, non-inclusive language, difference between hearing and listening, why humans are poor listeners, types of nonlistening, how to become a better listener, Self Disclosure, Knapp’s Stages of Relationship Development, Johari Window, Communication climate, Confirming and disconfirming communication, Defensiveness, Defense mechanisms, Preventing defensiveness in others(Gibb categories), Conflict styles.
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6) Relate that topic (the same one circled in #5) to the communication problem you have described in #3. _______________________________________
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7) How could the problem be improved? (what can YOU do to help solve the problem, even if it is not you that is primarily at fault)___________________________________
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8) Write out a sample dialogue, how the conversation might go in its improved form.
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