Reflection Paper On Interpersonal Skills

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Purpose: The interpersonal skill which I intended to develop more was leaning how to express my emotions my accurately. Learning to express ones emotions is a challenging process that can develop over time. This skill personally for me was a challenge since I usually don’t express my emotions but I try to stay serious/professional in every situation that I can. I feel that not having the ability to express my emotions accurately hinders me from effective communication and relationships with others. Four main characteristics that I came across that are affected involve self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. I’m not able to give honest opinions of what I think, it affects my stress management, I don’t …show more content…

When the week is over I just want to forget about it and move on to the next week. I had to constantly remind myself and be reminded by my accountability part to journal. I also didn’t want to think about the past weeks since I felt that I could have had situations different and displayed my emotions in more various scenarios. But I felt that through these challenges I was about to stick with keeping the five goals in front of me and continually growing my emotional intelligence. Focusing on improving my skills made my relationships better overall, I was being more real and they would appreciate the authenticity. Lastly, I had to learn how to learn the strength of my emotional vocabulary. I had to learn how to process the words that really displayed how I was feeling. In “Nonviolent Communication”, Marshall Rosenberg elaborated more on identifying and expressing feeling. He stated, “In expressing our feeling, it helps to use words that refers specific emotions, rather than words that are vague or general” (Rosenberg 43). This I found was important and difficulty since, someone could say how are you? I would reply “doing fine” versus explaining how I really felt with better vocabulary. This is something I continue to work on through this

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