Comm 150 Afternoon Friday 2/2/07

Happy Groundhog Day! Since he didn't see his shadow, spring's coming early or will it in Rexburg?

Looking forward to your comments as we get better at empathic listening!

By the way--who was it that said they could help people in class that are still struggling with blogging? Remember that you can go to the computer lab on the 3rd floor of the library to get help. Does someone else know where else students can go with technology questions?

Comm 150 Afternoon

Add your comments from class to this post!

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

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.

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