I chose my husband and my long term colleague
to evaluate my communication skills and much to my surprise is that they
evaluated me almost exactly like I evaluated myself. The slight difference that
we found was that I saw myself as having mild communication anxiety whereas
they both saw me as having low communication anxiety. My explanation is that I
probably hide my mild anxiety quite well.
In this week's reading I learnt the
differences between self-concept, self-esteem and self-efficacy and I found it
interesting, and very accurate that we avoid situations where we know our
self-efficacy is low (O'Hair & Weimann, 2012). Although I speak Arabic
quite fluently, when I need to speak it in a professional setting, I struggle
and so I try to avoid it as much as possible.
I also enjoyed learning the concept of
self-monitoring. Since I live in a tremendously diverse city, I have to agree
with the statement: "communicating successfully involves finding the
appropriate level of self-monitoring for the situation and the people
involved" (O'Hair & Weimann, 2012, P.56).
References:
O'Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real
communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's
Zeina,
ReplyDeleteI must do the same by hiding my anxiety among my co-teacher. She scored my way better than I scored myself. I felt that when she told me that I do a good job talking with the families and other coworkers it made me feel like I could do so much more. I know this is something I can get over and will work at everyday to get better at.