A Journey Through Angie's Mind

I want to say this class really helped me see myself and my lack of listening and communication skills. However it also heightened my drive to become better at it, yes it is a slow process and I'm still working on it. After this class I can truly say I'm a better communicator and listener because of everyone I encountered in this classroom. A discussion board didn't determine my skills the assignments did, they allowed me to see the world in a different perspective. I hope everyone got something out of this class because I sure did. Good Luck!

I would say from my past experiences when you've grown so fond of people and use to working with them, its defiantly hard to spilt and go your separate ways. Most of our group members still talked on a daily at work others went back to being themselves. From my point of view I don't go to work to make friends long term more so just coworker friends so leaving a group doesn't really affect me much. I would agree that working with people who think the same way you do and move at the same pace is hard to come by and hard to let go. I say that because now- a - days people have no work ethic  and no passion for what they do. Usually when a group project is over with we have a pot luck and all the participants bring something in. Leaving the group I defiantly gained different incites on how to get parents to participate on their children's lives. From the master program I have read and learned many things from my peers which will help me in my future endeavors toward owning m...

Lately I've noticed that I have conflict with administering the rules and regulations at my job to my workers. This is mainly because going from their co-worker to their boss is kind of a difficult transition. Alot of my co-workers I feel still dont take me seriously or listen when I say certain stuff. For me its hard I guess being serious when needed to people I use to joke around with. I have found talking with God, my boyfriend, and my boss about my struggles and hearing them out with their advice is making it much easier for me to do my job. At home me and my boyfriend sometimes have alot of misunderstandings due to miscommunication on both ends. Either I dont say enough or he says to much and im left confused. I've found actually listening to what he says and not just listening to respond. When I do that it really helps our conversation move forward. I sometimes would rather keep things in and then when things happen let it all out and I've come to realize that is not...

During this evaluation this week I came across some interesting view points on my communication styles from my colleagues and friends. I was also shocked at how hard I am on myself when it comes to communicating. I've realized that sometimes I try to hard to talk because I'm use to keeping everything in and that can sometimes come off as clingy. I thought it was interesting how others thought I communicated affectively when I literally have to look up things to talk about sometimes or how to deal with my anxiety of talking to a group of people. I have to admit it has gotten better working with kids and having to talk all the time, I still have my moments but the shell is broken. I do think I still have a ways to go especially when it comes to the many ways of listening, but I call myself a work in progress.