This topic is very interesting because the experiences people have in everyday jobs with communication between co-workers vary. This topic can be very helpful to many people in many different areas of employment. This essay will be mostly about an experience in the nursing field and the troubles with communication. During this week communication was observed and some difficulties were noted such as the inability to engage in dual perspective, lack of responsiveness, and expressing liking and disliking.
There were many things observed in conversations at meetings and around the halls, but what stood out the most was the inability to engage in dual perspective. When you have difficulty in dual perspective you are not understanding both our …show more content…
Lack of responsiveness is very powerful especially at the work place. Responsiveness is a dimension in relationship-levels meanings (Wood, Julia 19). For example when you are engaging in a conversation and the person or people in this case and they are having side conversations or not paying attention this causes lack of responsiveness. This is a very big issue that this group has because it happens almost daily. It was most offensive and frustrating during this particular meeting because the lack of responsiveness was directly effecting people in the interdisciplinary team. What was noticed is that no one was listening and the meeting became counterproductive. People walked out of that meeting felling unaccepted in the group or not felling a sense of belonging which is one of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Wood, Julia 2016). What was interesting was the people who have I- you communication where you are treated as you were an object and do not see the person as an unique individual (Wood, Julia2016) were the ones who were not listening and the people with the I- Thou relationship which are people who communicated on a deeper level (Wood, Julia 2016) were the people who were the people trying to keep the meeting going in a productive
There were many things observed in conversations at meetings and around the halls, but what stood out the most was the inability to engage in dual perspective. When you have difficulty in dual perspective you are not understanding both our …show more content…
Lack of responsiveness is very powerful especially at the work place. Responsiveness is a dimension in relationship-levels meanings (Wood, Julia 19). For example when you are engaging in a conversation and the person or people in this case and they are having side conversations or not paying attention this causes lack of responsiveness. This is a very big issue that this group has because it happens almost daily. It was most offensive and frustrating during this particular meeting because the lack of responsiveness was directly effecting people in the interdisciplinary team. What was noticed is that no one was listening and the meeting became counterproductive. People walked out of that meeting felling unaccepted in the group or not felling a sense of belonging which is one of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Wood, Julia 2016). What was interesting was the people who have I- you communication where you are treated as you were an object and do not see the person as an unique individual (Wood, Julia2016) were the ones who were not listening and the people with the I- Thou relationship which are people who communicated on a deeper level (Wood, Julia 2016) were the people who were the people trying to keep the meeting going in a productive