1. What was the Chapter # and name of the Assessment?
The chapter number is seventeen, and the name of the assessment is Personal Assessment of Communication Apprehension.
2. What was the purpose of the Assessment?
The assessment purpose is to help identify personal anxiety levels about communicating with people in a variety of settings, so that I may be aware of potential areas of fear; which will help me be prepared to respond in more effective ways.
3. What was your score/result on the Assessment and What does it mean?
My overall score was a sixty-two, which would put me in the average category; my highest levels of anxiety were meetings at eighteen and public speaking at seventeen. The assessment summary mentioned that this is pretty …show more content…
Being able to post in this journal format is safer for me, I would not share in a larger class, what I share in writing here; I have thought about how I would do this in class, and it would probably be in a smaller group that is sharing information about themselves. My score on group discussion was the one, which rated the lowest in anxiety. I can see myself working on a team, which is sharing knowledge and creating greater knowledge that the sum of our individual roles and input. You also mentioned, in your podcast, about the richer channels of communication in the traditional class. I do think this creates fewer distortions; but I would hesitate in open dialogue, until that climate of trust was established. I have a strength regarding communicating in more informal and smaller settings, the whole process of feedback is interesting to me; because you discover details about other people and situations that you did not know, and the exchange makes your own thinking better. When each of us is acting as a sender and receiver, the process of creating new understanding is a process I enjoy; the value of the grapevine should be recognized and embraced in my role as a manager. Communicating with candor, once basic relationships have been established, is actually less threatening to me than getting up and making a formal presentation; but this anxiety about being up front and speaking could hurt the team, which I am representing. If I cannot get up and share what matters to them, what the direction and accomplishments of the team actually are, it could hurt funding or keep us from getting approval. I am also going to mention this in the second journal entry regarding my contribution as a team member. I do agree with Daft about gender differences in communication, I think
The chapter number is seventeen, and the name of the assessment is Personal Assessment of Communication Apprehension.
2. What was the purpose of the Assessment?
The assessment purpose is to help identify personal anxiety levels about communicating with people in a variety of settings, so that I may be aware of potential areas of fear; which will help me be prepared to respond in more effective ways.
3. What was your score/result on the Assessment and What does it mean?
My overall score was a sixty-two, which would put me in the average category; my highest levels of anxiety were meetings at eighteen and public speaking at seventeen. The assessment summary mentioned that this is pretty …show more content…
Being able to post in this journal format is safer for me, I would not share in a larger class, what I share in writing here; I have thought about how I would do this in class, and it would probably be in a smaller group that is sharing information about themselves. My score on group discussion was the one, which rated the lowest in anxiety. I can see myself working on a team, which is sharing knowledge and creating greater knowledge that the sum of our individual roles and input. You also mentioned, in your podcast, about the richer channels of communication in the traditional class. I do think this creates fewer distortions; but I would hesitate in open dialogue, until that climate of trust was established. I have a strength regarding communicating in more informal and smaller settings, the whole process of feedback is interesting to me; because you discover details about other people and situations that you did not know, and the exchange makes your own thinking better. When each of us is acting as a sender and receiver, the process of creating new understanding is a process I enjoy; the value of the grapevine should be recognized and embraced in my role as a manager. Communicating with candor, once basic relationships have been established, is actually less threatening to me than getting up and making a formal presentation; but this anxiety about being up front and speaking could hurt the team, which I am representing. If I cannot get up and share what matters to them, what the direction and accomplishments of the team actually are, it could hurt funding or keep us from getting approval. I am also going to mention this in the second journal entry regarding my contribution as a team member. I do agree with Daft about gender differences in communication, I think