Week 3

Do you find yourself communicating differently with people from different groups and cultures? If yes, in what ways do you communicate differently?


 

 It is highly important to use various ways and styles of communications when interacting / communicating with people from different groups and cultures. For example, the way I interact with children is different from the style I use it to communicate with my colleagues and my employees. Sometimes I need to be compassionate, another time I need to be more professional, even the tone of my voice can be changed based on people and culture. Thus, without utilizing different ways of communication I think that we would not succeed in developing good relationships, which is essential to understand and learn more about people and children we communicating with.

Based on what you have learned this week, share at least three strategies you could use to help you communicate more effectively with the people or groups you have identified.

1-Do not makes any assumptions or judgments about people’s behaviors and actions without understanding and learning about their differences.

2- Respect other cultures and their differences by showing people that their languages, habits, traditions and behaviors are respected and welcomed.

3- Being a good listener by giving children and their families extra time to express their feelings, emotions, thoughts, and perspectives can also help me to communicate effectively.

 

 

 

Week 2

Observing communication in Action

The show that I watched was parenthood. The show started with a little girl that seems doing laundry by putting her clothes away in a basket. She looks sad despite she was dancing because her facial expressions could tell that she was suffering from a problem. After that, she drove her car heading to the beach where she got a phone call from a woman that I guessed was her mother. They continued talking and both of them look uncomfortable just as if they are blaming each other. In fact, the show that I watched has many characters that every one of them seemed uncomfortable, frown and upset due to their facial expressions that gave us a clear picture of their tensions about something that was going on.

By watchingthe show a second time with the sound on, I found that I was not completely right about my assumptions towards some characters. I was correct about some of them and wrong about other characters based on their facial expressions that sometimes do not give us a full picture of what we think.

The assignment of this week has taught me that nonverbal communication is not always correct and may convey different message depending on how we interpreted the action or the message we received.

 

Week I

A person  Who Demonstrates Competent Communication

The person who demonstrates a competent communication is my husband. He is very influential speaker; he uses a language that is clear, concise, and organized. In his workplace, they always choose him to represent them in meetings and conferences because he can display all his organization work in a short time and in effective way. My husband can communicate with everyone despite he did not complete his education but he had worked very hard to educate himself through reading and writing which made him to be an effective speaker, writer, and poet. I remember the first time I met him he was able to present everything about his life, work, dreams, and his future in few moments and in inclusive way, which is thing that made me admired him .He is very kind, cared, flexible, responsive, good listener and everyone love him. Therefore, having these attributes had served him to be a competent communicator that can influence everyone he interacts with. In fact, he is my role model and I  really learned so much from his skills of communication that I think would help me when working with children and their families.