EXERCISE IN COMMUNICATION
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A. Check one (1) of the following to indicate your largest communication problem
1. Explaining exactly what you mean without any doubt from your listeners.
2. Expressing yourself to meet the requirements, values and experience of your audience.
3. Having your ideas understood by others.
4. Thinking fast on your feet and making clever. suitable statements.
5. Telling an appropriate joke and delivering the punch line well.
6. Listening.
B. You keep attempting to discuss an important matter about your future with your spouse. He/she keeps speaking to the children, straitening up the house and looking over your shoulder, as if not concentrating on what you are saying. You feel: (check one):
1. Sympathetic towards the spouse: there doesn’t appear to be time enough to talk.
2. As if you should say, “Sit down, look at me – and listen.
3. That this is the way married life has to be,
4. That the spouse is disrespecting you.
5. That you must cause the spouse to talk to you and tell you what the problem is.
C. You get a good idea, which you feel could earn your company a great deal of money. You go to your boss to present the idea, feeling that he will elated. But, the boss is angry because of a slight error you made the day before and he doesn’t respond to your new idea. You feel:
1. Angry.
2. That you should relax, allow the boss to release his tension, and re-present your idea.
3. That you should do only enough to earn your salary and not show any extra initiative,
D. Write down the name of two people with whom you talk frequently and like very much and why. (briefly)
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