Eric Duncan Jr
9.21.2014
Business Communications
Journal Entry #3
Gender communications between men and women is different in several ways but just because they differ in communication styles both genders have good intentions. When talking about problems women often want empathy and try to reach a mutual understanding, while men want quick solutions that often lead to heated exchanges. It's easy to see that women communicate to build rapport and men communicate to preserve independence and dominant status. A person's communication with the opposite gender could be based off the persons childhood for example growing up if a boy has three sisters and lives with his mom he's going to learn greatly how to communicate with women just because he has experience in dealing with them. Men and women are from different worlds they have different needs, goals, values, and communication styles.
It's often important that a business has a difference in gender communications because in a firm it is good that you have a diversity of thoughts from males and females. Males want to get to the point while women often want the best options at hand and also talk out solutions. When you have both genders together the business gets the best effort to get the job done and that is a major factor in the business workforce. We need to look past our assumptions about the meaning of a particular manner of speaking to build better mixed-gender teams. In today's society women aren't afraid to give their views to men which builds a greater respect between the two genders.
I learned many things from difference in gender communications the most important is that men and women go about communicating in different ways. A few good ways to balance constructive communication that I learned from this topic are: Understanding the motivation behind a person's behavior, Recognize your own