Personal Narrative: My First Communication Strength

My first communication strength is listening to my friends and family. I am very adept at listening to my friends and families because I’m competent at the five stages of listening, specifically: receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and respond. I have this uncle named Rajah who tells stories non-stop. He can start a story at eight in the morning, and then continue until three in the afternoon. His family would tune him out around ten- thirty, but I would listen because he loved attention and he was a very entertaining man (also I don’t see him as much so all his stories are new to me). The reason he has lots to talk about is because he came to Canada five years ago, thus he has seen and experienced a lot back home in Sri Lanka.
My second communication strength is dealing with conflict (with friends and family). My friends say I’m good at dealing with conflict. Anytime my friends have a conflict or an argument with someone they come to me for advice and help. One time my best friend James and his girlfriend got into a verbal argument about how many different partners he had in the past, this issue was especially pressing because his girlfriend had never known about his history. So he came to me to vent and I listened, then he asked what he should do, and I told him to take responsibility in not disclosing that information and then let her know that his past does not determine his present or future- that though he had a lot of partners that he is a committed boyfriend and tell her not to mistake being in a lot of relationships to not being a loyal guy, because I know him very well and he is one of the most loyal people that I have met. I don’t get into conflicts often, now I’m not saying that I never get into conflicts; it is just that I feel that conflict is unnecessary and I hate drama and conflict. Sometimes being good at dealing with conflict can be a gift and a curse, as I can help a lot people, but sometimes I tend to avoid conflict even when it is
There are 4 categories of conflict: goals to be pursued (house or apartment), allocation of resources such as money or time, decisions to be made (buy the house or apartment which impacts whether you either work full time or go to college), and acceptable or unacceptable behaviours. Though I’m good at dealing with conflict in my personal life, it is difficult and a weakness of mine of dealing with it in my work. Particularly because I’m at a job that I really enjoy and do not want to go against the grain because I do not want to get fired or thought less of. Sometimes I disagree with something that my boss proposes, but I do not want to disagree in fear that he will get offended. Thus if there is a conflict in my workplace or a chance of a potential conflict, I just avoid it. I understand that conflict is not bad in the workplace and I will try to work on that particular issue because if I’m not being myself and authentic, then how important is the money? In addition the positive benefits of conflicts are to examine that otherwise might be avoided (for instance if my boss’ proposition is bad for the company I would helping the company if I offered a different