Friday, July 19, 2013
COMMUNICATION AMONG OTHERS
I’ve always keep my personal life and professional life separate. It's very important to have standards of professionalism when interacting with colleagues. In my currently position, I’m a Head Start Teacher and during staff development meetings, my communication is always professional using high language (formal) and gestures. In my home environment around my friends and family, my guard is down, and I’m more relaxed. I use more low language (slang) when talking to friends and family. Also, when I work with families in the early childhood profession, I avoid speaking to families using words that could be intimidating. For example, “YOU NEED TO……!” Using a phrase like that with families can set the tone of the relationship and hinder building a quality relationship with the family. Also, it gives the impression that I’m tell them what to do. In my family culture, I may tell my children, “You need to complete your homework", which is acceptable in my family culture. So I believe communicating should be different based on the situation because individuals can take things the wrong way.
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This is so important to me. I tend to keep my personal and professional life separate also. I can cut a rug in being funny and having a good time but I have limits. I think I show the same level of relaxation with my body posture when talking to family, friends and colleagues,however, at my job I rarely ever share anything personal.
ReplyDeleteAntowah I agree that communication is different in all settings and culture. We have to adapt to our environment and make sure everyone is comfortable in that environment, including ourselves. I believe when we can adapt to our environment shows how diverse we are and can be. Not everyone will understand slang and not everyone will understand formal communication. I think communication is interesting because the simplest conversation is us is difficult to someone else. Thank you for sharing.
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