Personal Principles Of Communication

Choose three of the communication principles stated in the text. Use personal experiences to explain why you agree or disagree with them. One of the principles of communication is that “emotions drive our major decisions. To me this means that although we one tries to be objective and to make the most logical decision, there will always be a level of personal feeling and emotion underlying the decision made. One personal experience of mine that can prove this to be correct was during my two years of work at McDonalds. I was an assistant manager and I was left to run the shift by myself because my manager called out sick for the day. During the shift an employee who happened to also be a close friend of mine decided on his lunch break to
The textbook discusses the difference between I-thou relationships and I-you relationships. In an I-thou relationship the relationship becomes fully human, we reveal who we truly are and we take off the mask that we present to the entire world. There are few who we let get inside our true selves and those that do have most likely earned their right to be there. Examples of an I-thou relationship would be ones relationship with their mother, boyfriend/girl friend, and best friend. When dealing with a boy friend/girl friend, we tend to expose all of our emotions. Ideally with them we hide nothing and encourage them to do the same. An I-you relationship is the most common type of relationship, we tend to have more of these than I-thou relationship. In these relationships we are more preoccupied with our self image, instead of building of a genuine meaningful relationship we worry ourselves with the way we are perceived by the other person. We wear a mask to boost ourselves to the level that we think that they see us.
Write out the textbook definition of interpersonal communication. Using a personal example, explain the various parts of the
My personal experience of the first need would be at my very first job. During my first year there, myself and another co-worker were up for a promotion. The other co-worker happened to be a male and so was my boss, so naturally I had some stiff competition. I was constantly in a position where I had to be outspoken and vocal about my being respected equally. In situations where my male opponent had things given to him and got constant praise for the smallest thing, I had to go the extra mile and demand what I wanted and command attention. My experience of the second basic need happens every day through email. I am taking an online class, so in order to communicate with my professor and other classmates I send emails. The emails can be homework that I am handing into my professor or just some questions or comments going back and forth between the class. The third basic need is also a conversation between me and my best friend. Whenever I need to vent about something or if he needs to vent about something, we call each other to get some understanding. The fourth basic need; to cause a change or an action would be when I want to take a day off from work for an example. In order to get the day off it is understood that I must submit a request in