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The discussion focuses on models of interpersonal skills improvement and methods for developing those skills, both personally and professionally. In what ways can personality profiles and assessments aid in the improvement of personal and on-the-job team performance? Thoroughly explain your rationale.
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Reflect and Relate, 6th Edition
Chapter 1: Introducing Interpersonal
Communication
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What Is Communication?
Communication: The process through which “people use
messages to generate meanings within and across
contexts, cultures, channels, and media”
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Defining Communication
Communication:
• Is a process
• Uses messages
• Is exchanged through interaction
• Uses various modalities
• Happens via sensory channels
• Occurs in contexts
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Communication Technologies Used by U.S.
Young Adults, Ages 18 to 29
figure 1.1
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Understanding Communication Models
Three models of the communication process:
• Linear communication model
▪ Sender, noise, receiver
• Interactive communication model
▪ Feedback, fields of experience
• Transactional communication model
▪ Fundamentally multidirectional, collaboratively create meanings
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Linear Model of Communication
figure 1.2
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Interactive Model of Communication
figure 1.3
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Transactional Model of Communication
figure 1.4
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What Is Interpersonal Communication?
A dynamic form of communication between two (or more)
people in which the messages exchanged significantly
influence their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and
relationships
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Defining Interpersonal Communication
(1 of 2)
Interpersonal communication is:
• Dynamic
• Typically transactional
• Primarily dyadic
• Creates impact
Intrapersonal communication involves:
• One person, aloud or internally
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Defining Interpersonal Communication
(2 of 2)
Buber names two ways of relating to others:
• I-Thou: Deepens bonds and affirms individual
uniqueness
• I-It: Leads to interpersonal communication and
even disrespectful communication
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Principles of Interpersonal Communication
(1 of 2)
Interpersonal communication:
• Conveys content and relationship information
▪ Meta-communication: Communication about
communication
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Principles of Interpersonal Communication
(2 of 2)
Interpersonal communication:
• Can be intentional or unintentional
• Is irreversible
• Is dynamic
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Motives for Interpersonal
Communication (1 of 2)
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:
1. Physical
2. Safety
3. Social
4. Self-esteem
5. Self-actualization
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Motives for Interpersonal
Communication (2 of 2)
Interpersonal communication fulfills three types of goals:
• Self-presentation goals
• Instrumental goals
• Relationship goals
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What Is Interpersonal Communication
Competence?
Interpersonal communication competence:
Consistently communicating in ways that are appropriate,
effective, and ethical
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Understanding Competence (1 of 3)
Communication skills: Repeatable, goal-directed
behaviors and behavioral patterns routinely practiced in
interpersonal encounters and relationships
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Understanding Competence (2 of 3)
Appropriateness: The degree to which your
communication matches situational, relational, and cultural
expectations
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Understanding Competence (3 of 3)
Effectiveness: The ability to use communication to
accomplish self-presentational, instrumental, and
relational goals
Ethics: The set of moral principles that guide our behavior
toward others
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Improving Your Mediated
Communication Competence (1 of 2)
Mediated communication: Interactions using devices
such as mobile phones, laptops and desktops, and tablets
through social media, email, texting, or in massively
multiplayer online video games
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Improving Your Mediated
Communication Competence (2 of 2)
• Choose your medium wisely.
• Don’t assume TMC is more efficient.
• Presume posts are public.
• Remember posts are permanent.
• Practice creating drafts.
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Issues in Interpersonal Communication
• Culture
• Gender
• Sexual orientation
• Technologically mediated communication
• The dark side of interpersonal relationships
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Reflect and Relate, 6th Edition
Chapter 2: Considering Self
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The Components of Self
The self: An evolving composite of three components that
develop continually over time based on life experience
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Self-Awareness
Self-awareness: The ability to view yourself as a unique
person and to reflect on your thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors
Self-monitoring: Using self-awareness to assess how
well your communication matches situational norms
Social comparison (Mead): Observing and assigning
meaning to others’ behavior and then comparing it with
your own
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Self-Concept (1 of 2)
Self-concept: Your overall perception of who you are,
based on the beliefs, attitudes, and values you have about
yourself
Looking-glass self: Your self-concept as shaped by what
you believe others think of you
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Self-Concept (2 of 2)
Self-concept clarity: The degree to which you have a
clearly defined, consistent, and enduring sense of self
Self-fulfilling prophecies: Predictions about future
interactions that lead us to behave in ways that ensure the
interaction unfolds as we predicted
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Self-Esteem (1 of 2)
Self-esteem: The overall value, positive or negative, that
we assign to ourselves
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Low Self-Esteem: A Vicious Cycle
figure 2.1
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Self-Esteem (2 of 2)
Self-discrepancy theory: Your self-esteem is determined
by how you compare to your ideal self and ought self.
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The Sources of Self
Our selves are shaped by the powerful outside forces:
gender, family, and culture.
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Gender and Self
Gender: The composite of social, psychological, and
behavioral attributes that a particular culture associates
with an individual’s biological self
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Family and Self (1 of 2)
Interactions with caregivers shape two dimensions of our
behavior.
• Attachment anxiety
• Attachment avoidance
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Family and Self (2 of 2)
Four attachment styles:
• Secure attachment
• Preoccupied attachment
• Dismissive attachment
• Fearful attachment
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Culture and Self
Culture: An established, coherent set of beliefs, attitudes,
values, and practices shared by a large group of people
• Membership in individualistic versus collectivistic culture
shapes our views of self.
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Communicating Your Self
People know and judge the “you” who communicates with
them, not the “you” you keep inside.
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Maintaining Your Public Self (1 of 2)
Face: The public self you want others to see and know
(Goffman)
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Maintaining Your Public Self (2 of 2)
Mask: A public self designed to conceal your private self
Example: Rick Welts
Embarrassment: Losing face creates feelings of shame,
humiliation, and sadness.
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Disclosing Your Private Self (1 of 2)
Self-disclosure: Revealing private information about your
self to others
Interpersonal process model of intimacy: Closeness
we feel toward others is created through self-disclosure
and the responsiveness of listeners.
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Disclosing Your Self to Others (2 of 2)
Self-disclosure:
• Varies across and within cultures
• Happens more quickly online
• Promotes mental health
• Occurs among men and women equally
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The Relational Self (1 of 3)
We carefully craft the presentation of our self to create
interpersonal relationships.
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The Relational Self (2 of 3)
Social penetration theory: Revealing the self to others
involves peeling back or penetrating layers.
• Breadth: The number of different aspects of self
revealed at each layer
• Depth: How deeply into each other’s self the partners
have penetrated
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The Layers of Self
figure 2.3
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The Relational Self (3 of 3)
Intimacy: Feeling of closeness and “union” that exists
between us and our partners
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Your Hidden and Revealed Self
Some “quadrants” of our selves are open to self-reflection
and sharing with other people.
Others remain hidden.
The Johari window: Each of us has a public area, a hidden
area, a blind area, and an unknown area.
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The Johari Window
figure 2.4
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Competently Disclosing Yourself
Ways to improve your self-disclosure skills:
• Know yourself.
• Know your audience.
• Don’t force others to self-disclose.
• Avoid gender stereotypes.
• Be sensitive to cultural differences.
• Go slowly.
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The Social Media Self
Interacting online gives us freedom to be flexible with our
identities and to control how others perceive us.
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Self-Presentation on Social Media
Selfie: A positive photo of oneself taken by oneself
Always consider the warranting value of information
presented to you online.
• Degree to which it is supported by other people and
outside evidence
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Improving Your Social Media
Self-Presentation
Three ways to improve online self-presentation:
• Be wary of information that contradicts your self-image.
• Routinely conduct web searches on yourself.
• Keep the interview test in mind.
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