...1. Communication is a vital tool that moves messages and stories from place to place and from people to people. In the next 5-10 years, my goal is to become a skilled multimedia and multiplatform communications professional who is up to date with the latest communication technologies. I want to be adept in my ability to understand and differentiate audiences and the messaging that best suits them. I hope to accomplish this goal by working in settings where I can learn from peers, colleagues and mentors as well as have the freedom to create and explore new strategies that use both creativity and insight to relay stories and messages. 2. My experience writing informational and promotional copy includes my time writing for the City of Arlington, Texas. For the city, I have written advances and promotional article about performances, sports competitions and entertainment guides. The latest promotional piece I wrote informed locals and visitors about the Special Olympics Texas Summer Games that took place in Arlington May 26-29. When it comes to informational and promotional writing, it is important to relay the who, what, when,...
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...1004 Interpersonal Communication Instructor: Dr. (Doreen) Kandy Simmons Phone: 925-726 9178 Office: Meiklejohn 3007 Office Hours: 11:30-12 or after class or by appointment Course description: Study of principles of oral communication in different interpersonal contexts. Listening and speaking intended to develop competence in oral communication, using different interpersonal contexts. Required Text: Beebe, S.A., Beebe. S.J. & Redmond, M.V.(2011). Interpersonal Communication: Relating to Others. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. Additionally, students are required to check into Blackboard at least once a week for assignments and announcements. Also check your CSU East Bay email at least once a week. Course Objectives 1. To introduce students to the theories and application of effective interpersonal communication. 2. To provide a constructive environment for students to apply those skills. 3. To assess students understanding of theories of interpersonal communication. 4. To coach students to their interpersonal basic skills use. 5. To help students understand that they have choices in trying to address interpersonal communication issues. Student Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students will 1. Demonstrate understanding of interpersonal communication theories and models as applied to a variety of interpersonal communication situations. 2. Plan and execute strategies to perform her/his own interpersonal communication...
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...M1A3 Goals Identification and Reality Assessment Worksheet Use this worksheet to organize your responses to Module 1, Assignment 3. Submit this worksheet in the Module 1: Assignment 3 Dropbox no later than Day 7 of Module 1. Include vocabulary and concepts from your readings to support and illustrate your own insights. In preparation for the papers you’ll write later in this course, take the time to organize your thoughts for each question and write clearly. The completed worksheet should be not more than three pages. 1. Describe a goal for interpersonal improvement in your personal life. Be sure to explain the following: • What aspects of your own interpersonal communication skills would you like to improve? • How far are you from attaining this goal? • Do you think this goal is set too high or too low? Why, or why not? • How long will it take me to attain this goal? • If the goal will take a long time to attain, could you set smaller goals that you could attain while still working toward your bigger goal? • How will you benefit from successfully attaining your goal? (Your personal goal and explanations go here. Be sure to respond to EACH question above.) 2. Describe a goal for interpersonal improvement in your academic life. Be sure to explain the following: • As an online student, what areas would you like to improve to help you be a more successful student...
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...situation that I observed that demonstrated poor communication and had a neglect effect. Will also describe the organizational situation in detail. Including answers to the following questions. Factors that affect the interpersonal communication in this situation. Listening habits that negatively affects the business relationship or the bottom-line results. An explanation of the empathetic listening skills in this situation. The affect of listening habits that affected the business relationship. Empathetic listening advantages that may lend an improvement of the interpersonal communication in this situation. Propose a strategy that will deal with the situation using empathetic listening techniques. The organizational situation in detail. This situation happened in my workplace while working in a hospital as a home-health aide (HHA). The name of this hospital is the Halifax Medical Center that is in Florida. This situation happen with a supervisor for an appointed work team who showed very poor interpersonal communication with the team and did not communicate well any members of the team. He seems to complain about a little bit of everything that was always negative. Many times he would remove members of the team constantly and they would be put to do work elsewhere. The team-members work would be left undone until whatever work he wanted them to do was complete. Members of the team was not allowed to leave the floor until the assignment were finish with the task for the day. Many...
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...Unit 2 Assignment Job 1 Job Title: School Psychologist and Director of Guidance Job Description:The psychologist will serve as the coordinator of the school's special education services including resource rooms and a self-contained classroom for 2013-2014 school year. In addition, in working with our pre-school program, the psychologist must understand child development and be able to communicate clearly with faculty and families. The successful candidate will be able to read and interpret psychological testing in a manner that is helpful to children, parents and teachers. Also, as the Director of Guidance this individual will work with the Principal and other members of the administration to develop a school-wide, age appropriate guidance program that integrates aspects of Jewish life, Sephardic culture and social/emotional understanding. A PhD in Psychology or a PsyD is required for this position. Skills needed for the job, taken from both the job description and your own analysis of the job (Note: Be sure to list at least 5 skills, three of which are specific skills in the XYZ field): |Skill |Necessity of Skill | |1.Active Listening |To be able to fully understand the issues that the client is dealing with so I have the | | |best ways possible in finding solutions...
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...Interpersonal communication is achieved through three styles of relating; submissive, aggressive, passive and, assertive. The former two have a multitude of limitations associated with them. However, the latter is regarded as the best form of communication both personally and professionally. Although an assertive style of relating often results in the best outcome for interpersonal communications; it more importantly has limitations. This essay will define what assertive communication is and why this is important in identifying its limits. Furthermore, it will outline how assertive communication can be achieved. Thirdly, it will establish and expand upon the advantages to an assertive style of relating. Moreover, it will outline the limits...
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...M1A3 Goals Identification and Reality Assessment Worksheet 1. Describe a goal for interpersonal improvement in your personal life. Be sure to explain the following: * What aspects of your own interpersonal communication skills would you like to improve? * How far are you from attaining this goal? * Do you think this goal is set too high or too low? Why, or why not? * How long will it take me to attain this goal? * If the goal will take a long time to attain, could you set smaller goals that you could attain while still working toward your bigger goal? * How will you benefit from successfully attaining your goal? My personal goal is to be able to communicate my feelings more often. I think it will take me a few months to successfully attain this goal because I’ve been so closed off for so long. I do not think my goal is set too high or too low because I believe it is a reasonable goal to achieve if I continue to express myself verbally. I will benefit from this goal because communication is key, not only in relationships, but in life. If I have trouble communicating to others I will not succeed. When an issue arises I will have the confidence to address it to the other person(s) and discuss it without feeling judged or belittled. 2. Describe a goal for interpersonal improvement in your academic life. Be sure to explain the following: * As an online student, what areas would you like to improve to help you be a more successful student...
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...Acct 325 Writing Assignment #1 Professor: Gregory Kunkel The Core Competency Framework The Core Competency Framework for all students who are entering the accounting profession must be proficient in three categories: functional competencies, personal competencies and broad business perspective competencies. All students are required to have technical and soft skills to be successful in their profession. It is my desire to build on my strengths while augmenting my weaknesses in pursuing a career in business and accounting. The one area I would like to improve on is in the criteria of soft skills. Within this criteria I would like to further expand on my verbal communication, business interaction, leadership, problem solving/decision making, professional demeanor and project management. By improving these specific skills I hope to become a well-rounded, career oriented professional. By taking accounting 325, I would like to polish my writing and verbal communication skills. My goal is to go to the writing center on a regular basis, develop my writing skills and expand my interpersonal communication skills with my associates and team members. I also intend to join the Beta Alpha Psi, which is the professional fraternity for financial students and professionals at California State University, Los Angeles. By doing so I would like to cement my public speaking and business assertiveness in a real world environment of like-minded financial individuals. At the end of the course...
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...Definition of Intrapersonal Effectiveness----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 2.2 Jackson’s Hybrid Model 2 2.3 Learning Style Profiler 3 2.4 Goals Settin 4 2.5 Organisational Effectiveness 4 3.0 Social and Cultural Issues---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 4.0 Interpersonal Effectiveness 5 4.1 Definition of Interpersonal Effectiveness 5 4.2 Communication Process Model 5 4.3 SPARK 6 4.4 Diversity and Culture 6 4.5 Organisational Effectiveness 7 5.0 Conclusion 7 6.0 References 8 7.0 Appendices 10 1.0 Introduction Learning is regard as holistic processes of adaptation to the world. People learn for the resolution of possible conflicts between dialectically opposed and synergetic modes between the workplace and oneself (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). In the portfolio I will reflect on my learning in relation to my experiences that I have study on BSB124. I will discuss it in two second, including intrapersonal effectiveness and interpersonal effectiveness. First, I will indicate how my learning style helps me be effective to intrapersonal study and work. Then, I will reflect on my practice as developing our group presentation. My reflections will be evaluated and supported by reference to the related theories and models we have learnt from this unit. Also, I have identified two areas of professional development in order to advance...
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...Intra-and Interpersonal Competencies Written Assignment The main character in the case study, Sammy, showed inability in inter- and intrapersonal communication. He is facing various daily life problems including defining his self-value and identity, getting along with parents and managing personal emotions. The first problem is that Sammy failed to develop self concept (i.e. Who he is, what he wants to do) but blindly follows his parents’ opinion to persuade further study in college. Based on Identity Statuses Theory, Sammy is experiencing identity diffusion (Marcia,1966) in which he failed to attain commitment (occupational belief) and crisis (actively exploring and making conscious decision to understand his own identity). Besides, he has low self-esteem (i.e. the value he placed on himself) as he consider his classmates are more competent in both sports and academic performance than he does. He feels inferior at school. In order to overcome Sammy’s identity crisis, he should try to explore his own identity by constantly questioning himself about his own value, beliefs and academic pursuit to clarify his occupational and social roles. He can join various extra-curricular activities such as sports and music to discover his inborn talent. He might not be good at sports but he might be good at music or arts and crafts. To boost self-esteem, he needs to gain approval from peers to develop sense of belongingness. He could join more class activities and be generous (e.g. share...
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...and you need to know that you are not going to be the expert in everything and you need to know how to be okay with that. From the first sets of reading in our class textbooks, we started with the basics. Self-awareness, trust and understanding our ethics and values (de Janasz et al, 2012) kicked off one set of reading, while taking a look at how we are affected by and handle conflict (Griffith & Goodwin, 2013) lead off the other. While the two offered different contexts for examining ourselves, they both stressed the importance of knowing yourself and being able to recognize how we are affected by the things going on around us. Once we have a handle on this, then we can move on to leading, helping and motivating others. This final assignment asks us to take a look at something that takes this intrapersonal evaluation a step further. By using a theory developed by Argyris and Schon in the mid-1970’s we are asked to take a look at what we plan to do in a certain situation (espoused theory) and we actually do in the situation (theory-in-use) (Anderson, 1997). Common sense might indicate that the two usually go hand-in-hand. We know how we should react and respond to a certain situation, but when that situation arises, do we follow through? An extreme, but simple way to explain the two is that the espoused theory states that if we were to...
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...Communication Technology: Efficiently Lowering the Bar Jason P. Hagle BUS 600 Management Communications with Technology Tools Instructor: Neil Mathur March 11, 2013 Communication technology in large organizations has significantly changed day-to-day operations over the past 10 years. General Electric (GE) is an infrastructure and financial services corporation. Its segments include: Power and Water; Oil and Gas; Energy Management; Home and Business Solutions; and GE Capital, which provides a range of financial services and products (mergentonline.com, 2013). Since the invention of Edison’s light bulb, technology and innovation has been at the heart of everything GE does. Email, conference calls, video conferencing, and virtual workspaces are all prevalent in today’s working environments. Managers and employees must be able to adapt to these technological advancements designed to increase productivity and reduce the cost of doing business. Incorporating new technologies allows employees to work more efficiently and effectively but can also present challenges that are more subtle and difficult to measure. Relationships become difficult to establish due to a lack of interpersonal communication opportunities. Employees working remotely at GE do not feel as connected to the larger organization as employees working in office sites. A common theme at GE is that the company does not want employees to feel like islands to themselves. The company acknowledges that its...
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...exciting days, May 3rd - 12th, 2013. As one of our grandest events to date, we'll need a team of volunteers to make the Festival a remarkable experience for all our audiences. Get involved, meet new people, and discover films from Europe. The festival committee of Europe on Screen 2013 will recruit +/- 25 volunteers this year to help with the festival activities in Jakarta. Requirements: • Minimum 18 years old • Can locate themselves in Jakarta during the Festival • Passionate about film • Skilled with intermediate level of English. • Able to work for minimum 5 days during the festival • Able to work from 11am – 10pm • Willing to be placed in any festival venues in Jakarta. • Excellent interpersonal communication skill • Highly initiative, friendly, reliable and a supportive team players • Able to follow the rules/guidelines given by Volunteer Coordinator • Remain professional at all times while working with a diverse group of festival committee, audience, guests, and other volunteers. Volunteers Job Description: 1. Technician/Venue Coordinator • Responsible for the execution of all film screenings in the designated venue. • Responsible for the order and performance of the other volunteers in the same venue. • Responsible to write a daily report according to the brief of the Volunteer Coordinator of the festival. 2. Information & Ticketing • Responsible to provide correct and proper...
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...offers the non-subject specialist an overview of the literature which has influenced the development of listening and interpersonal skills in UK higher education. It refers to articles, seminal texts and writers within the field. In order to provide some context, the first section of the review covers some issues relating to the definition of listening and interpersonal skills and some examples are presented to demonstrate their interdependence. The importance of these skills within occupational and educational domains is also highlighted. The review then goes on to place listening and interpersonal skills in context by exploring historical perspectives, factors influencing current developments and providing an indication of issues which may affect future development. The paper introduces different approaches to listening and interpersonal skills within some key disciplines and considers the extent to which the teaching and learning of listening and interpersonal skills has been integrated within these discipline. In conclusion we consider emerging themes relating to advances in technology and widening participation, including the cross cultural agenda. A glance at the definitions section below will reveal the substantial overlap that exists between this topic and some of the other LearnHigher learning areas, most notably those relating to oral communications and group work. Although we acknowledge this overlap at various points during the review, readers interested in a more...
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...Atunwa, Kehinde Temitope, No, Pa Samuel Adedoyin Street, Off Fate Road G.R.A, Ilorin, Kwara State. 24/10/2013 The HR Manager, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), PMB 5320, Oyo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Dear Sir/Ma, APPLICATION FOR TRAINING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT POSITIONS I am writing in response to your advertisement on International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for Training Administrative Assistant position. During my research about your Institute, I was excited to learn about the current openings for a position of administrative assistant. Your Institute being one of the world’s leading research partners has excellent objectives in finding solutions for hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. I am very much interested in joining your organization. In my former role as a front desk receptionist at Latbash Nigeria Limited, I was required to administer a range of administrative and specialized tasks in an appropriate and perfect manner. This comprised organizing meetings, directing visitors to appropriate contacts, answering...
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