Doing this week’s application has helped me to identify
where I stand as a communicator. I learned that my communication anxiety level
was moderate, my level of verbal aggressiveness was significant and my level of
listening was classified group 1 people orientated.
I had my husband and coworker to both evaluate me using the
same assessments. To my surprise they both rated me as significant on a verbal
aggressiveness scale, moderate on communication anxiety and a group 1 listener.
This was a shocker to me, to know that someone else viewed
my communication skills the same as I do. I was a bit disappointed with one of
my results. To know that my words can be offensive towards others did not sit
well with me, although I have always been a person to speak my mind and be
through with it.
I expected my husband to score similar to me, but not my
colleague. It was glad to know that she viewed me as being a people person. She
knows that I love to communicate one on one, but when it has to done publicly I
tend to tense up a bit.
Learning about myself has taught me where my strengths and
weakness are, and how I can learn to correct the areas that need improvement.
Andrea,
ReplyDeleteThis self assessment and letting other assess us is quite interesting. I was shock to find that my daughter assessment felt that I was a little uneasy with other in my communication. But the self preception of what people think of us important so if we need change we can do so.
Hello Andrea,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your results. My husband rated me as significant on the verbal aggressiveness as well. My colleagues at work rated me as low. I think that with the people we are most familiar with we have a tendency to "let go" a bit. This is something I said I would work on.