I tried the challenge Pam gave us on Friday, to seek first to understand then be understood. When we were discussing this habit in class I thought that it would be easy to add this into my everyday life and that it would be an easy/ fast way strengthen my relationships with others. While in class I figured that it would easy to really listen to someone without just thinking about what my response will be without probing, or advising the situation. I thought that just repeating what they had said a little differently would be okay. While repeating what they had said differently helped them to know that I was listening, for me I found that it wasn’t helping me pay more attention to the subject we were discussing because I was just thinking about how I could reword it. I was wrong when I thought that this habit would be easy to incorporate into my communication skills. It is going to take some major practice with this habit to really feel comfortable with the way I communicate with others.
--Kate Kendrick
No comments:
Post a Comment