Emotional Intelligence

What is your EQ? This post follows up our class discussion on Emotional Inelligence Please review this article entitled "Teaching Emotional Intelligence In The Business School Curriculum" by Frank Bellizzi, Quinnipiac University. Then, check out this self test. Please create a post that makes application to your own emotional intelligence based on this reading, the results of your self test and any other experiences or readings on this subject.. The blog post should share your top two "personal" EQ improvements. What needs to be improved to develop your emotional intelligence? Share with us your personal strategies and/or plans to put them into action. Why might developing a high EQ be important to your long time success?

Communicating in Relationships

Please go to our Blackboard to find the article "Bringing Emotions into Social Exchange Theory" but Edward J.Lawler and Shane R. Thye. After reading this article, please do the following: 1) Make a brief list of what a particular relationship in your life costs you. Now list the rewards from the relationship. Apply the list of costs and rewards. How do emotions affect the costs and rewards of your relationship. Please post this time in Bb under discussion boards. This post is due the end of the day on Friday, November 12th. Should be a minimum of 300 words.

Interpersonal Communication and Conflict

It not always so much about the conflict but how we communicate or respond in conflict situations. Which communication technique do you use to reduce your conflict is a conflict situation? What are the healthy and unhealthy choices we make in such situations? Please read this article on interpersonal communication and conflict.
Discuss the approaches that you have taken in recent conflicts and your thoughts on healthy ways to reduce conflict learned after reading this article. This post is due by the start of class on Thursday, November 11. It will be included in our class discussion.

Self Disclosure and Social Networking

We will be discussing this week the concept of privacy and disclosure in our interpersonal communication. Please read this article which was published today in the Sunday, Asbury Park Press entitled, "Social networking: Are we revealing too much?". We will be discussing it and possibly posting about it this week in our respective blogs. Share your thoughts about how your privacy changes when the channel changes? How different is your self disclosure in a face to face encounter than online? Why? How?

Styles of Listening

We tend to utilize a style of listening in our interpersonal relationships which means it is our primary approach to understanding a listeners message. Researchers have identified four listening styles in Chapter 6 of our text. People centered, action centered, content centered and time centered. Identify which style is your primary approach in this post. Where did you think you learned this approach? Is it effectively working for you in most interactions? Should we always use the same approach in all listening situations? Share with me the answers to these questions and a time that you should have moved outside your primary approach to a adjust accordingly to the situation. This post is due on Tuesday, October 26th. by the start of class.

Technology and Interpersonal Communication

What does your cyber self look like? We develop a self identity and self create ourselves in the virtual world. After reading Chapter 11, please post to your blog and application of your self identity in your Facebook to the the four assumptions of online presentation of the self. And, then apply five additional concepts from this chapter that are being used to create your cyber identity. This post is due for Tuesday, October 12.

Nonverbal Immediacy Behaviors

Post your score if you feel comfortable. Reflect on your score. What Nonverbal behaviors do you use in the course of a day? What are you communicating with these behaviors? Are there behaviors that you should be using that you aren't using?

Adaptation Theory

Please post to your own blog now for the remainder of the semester. This blog is due next Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Conduct three conversations. Report on the blog your application to this theory. What kinds of adjustments did you make? What kinds of adjustments did your the other party make? In what ways does the topic and delivery affect this theory? Do all parties tend to make the same adjustments?

Words are Powerful

Words are powerful and are often selected very carefully by journalists. Can the selection of one word over another impact the effect of a message? What words are defined as powerful? Share with us in a post at least 200 words long an instance when powerful words were used? What happened? Were they content appropriate? In what instances would you use these words for effect? And, in what instances would you avoid using them? Post to your own blog by Tuesday, October 4th at the beginning of class.

Creating A Rider PSA on Campus Culture

Create a PSA that defines and promotes diversity on campus. Students will work in groups to create a Public Service Announcement that will include the following:
1) defines diversity on our campus
2) uses verbal and nonverbal messages to communicate examples of diversity in action on campus
3) promotes the benefits of diversity for students, faculty and staff on campus
4) include authentic images (nothing staged) in the visual component which is your choice, ppt, photostory or even youtube.
5) PSA should be between 1-3 minutes long
6) will be presented in class on Tuesday, Sept. 28.
7) Please submit to the digital dropbox a copy of your presentation by Tuesday, Sept 28 with all students name in the heading or title of the attachment.

Any questions, please email.

Identity Management

Identity Management theory refers to the ways we handle ourselves in various situations. We decide on a particular communication behavior to influence how others perceive us. Another important reason to communicate our identities is to become an active citizen, voicing our identitites. Goffman (1959) explains identity with an analogy of theatrical performance; when a person has motives for attempting to control the impression. Dillard (2000) add the actor who "perform" for the audience surrounding us. Discuss and apply the theory of Identity Management in this post after completing the viewing of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Include the terms of face, facework, implicit kpersonality theory, and the halo effect in your post. The goal to is recognize and apply the perception of self and interpersonal communication.

Communication Breakdown

Can you think of a interpersonal situation in which there was a breakdown in communication? Now that you are familiar with the elements of the communication model, can you identify where the breakdown occurred? Do you think that if you or the participants would have been knowledgeable of the communication process, it would have eliminated the breakdown or made a difference? Post your personal story and apply the communication model in your details. This post is due this Tuesday, September 14th at the start of class.

Welcome to Interpersonal Communication

Welcome to Interpersonal Communication. I look forward to exchanging ideas, and experiences and exploring this exciting topic! We will be using a blog to apply and journey on a trip of self discovery this semester. Blog posts are to be taken serious. Take you time and dig deep and examine your interpersonal communication in these posts. I will not give credit to someone that has not taken the time or made the effort to write and examine their communication patterns. These blogs will be a focus of our discussion during class time, so please keep that in mind.