ASSIGNMENT HELP | 1. Identify an interpersonal communication behavior that you wish to improve.

This project will take place throughout the first four weeks of the course and starts in week one with the self reflection assignment. After identifying two interpersonal communication behaviors to improve you will start making observations for this midterm. This assignment consists of journaling for the first four weeks and completing the following:

1. Identify an interpersonal communication behavior that you wish to improve. Gather information about the behavior (3 expert sources) and write a short paper that summarizes your research and outlines a specific plan for improving the behavior.

2. Keep a record of your progress in the form of a journal. Each entry should describe your active efforts to improve your chosen interpersonal skills. Be specific! Include an assessment of how well you accomplished your objectives. Be sure to include successes and non-successes in your journal entries. After the description, suggest reasons why you might have been more or less successful in the situation. These entries will provide the “data” for your final paper.

3. Write a report about your observations and efforts to improve your interpersonal communication behaviors. You will also write a short evaluation of your progress and the project.

4. Use the guidelines below to construct your paper:

– Provide a brief introduction and rationale for the chosen communication behaviors to observe.

– Discuss your findings from the three academic sources found about the observable communication behaviors chosen. Share what research tells us about these chosen behaviors that you observed about yourself over the four weeks.

– Share your observations. Provide excerpts from your journaling that shares your successes and failure throughout this project.

– Provide an overview of improvements or if you did not improve your observed interpersonal communication behaviors.

– Provide a reflection on the importance of self-reflecting on communication behaviors and lessons learned from this project. Discuss how a Christian perspectives about self-reflection on the area of communication behaviors may apply to this project.

5. Include a copy of your journal from the last four weeks (this can be scanned in as hand written notes OR as a word document, depending on how you recorded your progress).

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Interpersonal Communication

            There are interpersonal communication behaviors I wish to improve. First, I need to pay attention to the speaker (active listening) as I tend to be distracted when they are talking as I always assume I know what they are talking about during conversations. Secondly, I have the behavioral tendency of thinking of what I am going to say next when the other person is talking, meaning I do not often listen to what is being said. In this case, I am unable to focus on what exactly the other person is talking about as I spend most of the time | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT |communication behavior I exhibit is interjecting most of the things the other person is saying believing that I know what they are saying. Most of the time I am incorrect. Again, I struggle with time, and I end up not enjoying the engagement with other speakers as | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | listening is a critical communication skill; active listening overshadows simple hearing or passive listening to develop a deeper connection between the listener and the speaker as the speaker is given full attention by the listener. In this case, the research considers active listening to also…