Example Of Interpersonal Communication

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Communication is something that we have done since birth. As babies, we could not speak of what we wanted. We cried till we got what we wanted. As we get older, we learned to speak and we were able to relate what we wanted with our words. Interpersonal Communication is how we listen, how we relate to people, how we understand emotions, how we deal with things that might arise, and how we communicate over all. Everything leads back to you and how you see yourself. If you believe in the positives about yourselves, then you see it, and believe it. Same with believing all the negatives about yourself; after a while, you would believe that to be true. It would be like a self-fulfilling prophecy. “A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief that comes true because we are acting as if it is already true,” (Psychology Today, 2012). So if we believe in the positive, then the positive self-fulfilling prophecy will come true. According to Essential Life Skills website (n.d.), self-concept “is the …show more content…

In one particular episode, George’s bosses decided to merge with another company and they were going to have to lay off several people, plus the other company made sure to bring in another manager who was ruthless and didn’t care what happened to those people that were to be laid off. That left George unsure of what to do. As George was talking with his wife, Angie, she was telling him his qualities and one of them just happened to be emotional intelligence. He didn’t realize it at first, but the more he worked it out for himself, the more he was able to come to terms with having emotional intelligence. He ended up outsmarting his co-manager and new bosses with his emotional intelligence. He knew the workers, because he had been in their place and he knew what had to be done. The other manager saw dollar signs and cutting corners as an

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