Comm 455

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Comm 150 Afternoon

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Empathy when Emotions High and Trust Low--Comm 150 AM

What insights did you have today from discussion, things posted on the white board, and the spontaneous role play?

Peer-to-Peer: How Organizations Hear!

Today's discussion: "The Great Eight" (Organizational Disciplines) and the Peer-to-Peer Communication connection.

Also--rethinking education:

Today's quote:

"Give a student a text, lecture and test and you teach them for a semester. Get a student into "google"ing, case preparation and blogging, and they teach each other for a lifetime!"

--Brad A. Adams, a student taught by students!

Student Blogging: Expectations, Tips and Tricks

Please add your questions or concerns about blogging to this post as comments. Those of you who can answer questions others have can post your responses to them as a comment to their comment.

I'll also be modifying this to include blogging instructions for you as they are developed.

Stay patient and comfortable with the new learning as best you can--and start having fun with sharing your thoughts (appropriately) on line!


Blogging Expectations for each of BrAdams's students:
1. Create post in MS Word/equivalent
2. Spell and Grammar Check it
3. Post it to your blog (cut and paste)
4. Find the most recent post for this class on www.bradadams.blogspot.com
5. Click on the comment link below that most recent post
6. Paste your Post in comment window
7. http://photoman-comm250.blogspot.com/7. Find at least two other classmates blogs that do not have 2 comments on their post for the day. Leave good comments questions, observations there.


BrAdams

Empathic Listening & the Emotional Bank Account

Comm 150 Afternoon Class

I sense that class today felt frustrating to quite a few of you.

We've been trying in the role play to let you experience first hand what it would mean to

1. reflect feeling
2. rephrase content

when empathic listening is needed.

We've talked about the importance of empathic listening when both:

1. trust is low
2. emotion is high

Yet we're still developing skills in this area that is so critical to relationship and leadership success. Because this is a skill seldom learned by people it is helpful to understand that while we are still just moving past level 2, you will learn to be at 4 as part of this class:

4. Unconscious Competence
3. Conscious Competence
2. Conscious Incompetence
1. Unconscious Incompetence

Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox, and Autobiographical Listening

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a life time." ---Lao Tsu, Ancient Chinese Philosopher

Rather than have you read today from a text book, we'll let you "go fishing!"

1. Please Google "Empathy" or "Empathic Listening" or "Empathetic Listening" or just "Listening."
2. Find an article or some writing to read that you find informative and helpful given the topics shared in class.
3. Create your post from at least three insights you gained during class presentation, discussion, the video, personal reflection or reading.
4. Put it as a new post on your blog
5. Make sure your blog is public, or create a new blog for this class that can be public
6. Copy that post as a "comment" to this post of mine
7. Make sure your post in my blog either highlights your name as the link to your blog, or type in the address or URL to your blog
8. Go make comments on two other blogs.

The 5 branches that lead to effectiveness in any organizational tree

From the student leadership of our organizational consulting group on campus--Comm 455.

Below are their comments on the key disciplines that work together to create organizational effectiveness.

When emotions are high and trust is low . . .

From the students in Comm 150-09

Check out the comments below of students who are really learning to listen empathically.

The Praiseworthy Principle

In Comm 150-01 we just talked about observing the Praiseworthy Principle. When we catch other people doing good things or doing things well, we actually help them feel drawn to doing more and more things that are "praiseworthy."

We discussed the situation of a single mother who would be away from her children sometimes for days on end because of her work. Another woman would come stay with her children while she was gone. This woman began to express concern about the misbehavior of the children. The mother began to post a

Check out the comments below from these students who are really learning how to listen empathically.

Columbia's Final Mission

Check out the comments from the awesome students in this class

Organization Communications class today was about the space shuttle Columbia's final mission and the issues that arose within different areas of NASA that led to its distruction. The comments that follow will describe, through words and visuals, perspectives from the following disciplines:

1. People
2. Market
3. Capital
4. Technology
5. Organization

Check them out!

Effective and Efficient Time Management

Dear Time Management Students

Please post your comment's here regarding the Time Management lecture.

Later, I will edit my post with my thoughts about today's class.

Thanks! Brother Adams

Target Client Accounts--Who we choose to work with

Dear Comm 455 (Comm--Organizational Consulting)

After you have posted your entry for today's class to your blog, please copy your post as a comment to this post in my blog. Later, I will edit my post with my thoughts about today's class.

Thanks! Brother Adams

Autobiographical responses vs. empathic listening

Dear Comm 150 section 9 (Comm--Interpersonal 0702--my Afternoon class)

After you have posted your entry for today's class to your blog, please copy your post as a comment to this post in my blog. Later, I will edit my post with my thoughts about today's class.

Thanks!

Brother Adams

Listening in tough, emotional situations

Dear Comm 150 section 1 (Comm--Interpersonal 0701--my Morning class)

After you have posted your entry for today's class to your blog, please copy your post as a comment to this post in my blog. Brother Adams





Today's class: question about biological cycles and impact on communication, more male/female differences, Serving others vs serving selves, empathy is not sympathy--which is usually evaluation or sometimes interpretation. Autobiographical responses of APIE--advising, probing, interpreting and evaluating.