For your blog this week, think of someone (e.g., family member, celebrity, politician, friend, or professor) who demonstrates competent communication within a particular context. What behaviors does this person exhibit that make him or her effective? Would you want to model some of your own communication behaviors after this person? Why or why not?


I worked for a child care facility for a while and I had a boss there that had very effective communication skills. I could go into her office with a problem and she would turn the problem around into something positive that I was doing  in my classroom. She would make you forget that you were mad and mainly focus her conversation on how good of a job you were doing. Her form of communication was mostly praising her employees and putting a positive spin on things. This was effective with me for a while and then one day I realize none of my problems were being addressed properly or fixed. I actually got into a confrontation with my boss, to where she did not know how to act or respond to me, she could not take that I was being confrontational. Since then I have realized that being positive may have made her an effective communication, and kept me interested in what she was saying but after a while you see through those behaviors.