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?