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General Journal Entries Assignment

Management Communication

The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to applycourse concepts and to engage in and observe situations that relate to communication as a way of learning and effective communication skills development. Each journal entry should be at least 1/2 of a typed page- single space - no more than 1 page.

Required Entries

A: Required Entries per Assignment (1 point each for following assignment requirements)

1. Engage in "small talk" with a stranger; record the results.

2. Give an example of when you used confirmation or disconfirmation (Chapter 5) and what was the result?

3. Engage in a communication where you utilize an effective "I-message" (from Chapter 10); state the I-message you utilized and discuss the result.

4. To enhance relationship effectiveness, the POSTIVE (see Chapter 9 of the text for meaning of this acronym) approach can be used in relationship communication. Discuss a relationship you have/had where some or all of the POSITIVE principles were not evident. What principles were not utilized (missing) and why? Are there POSITIVE principles you would utilize differently? How?

5. Record how you responded to a specific interpersonal conflict with another person or in a situation you observed. Apply one or more of the conflict styles in your application. What could/would you do differently today?