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Enhancing Relationships

Enhancing Relationships. HCOM-100 Instructor Name. Communication Principles. Enhancing Relationships Preview. The Importance of Friendship The Importance of Family The Importance of Colleagues Stages of Relationship Development Managing Interpersonal Conflict.

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Enhancing Relationships

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  1. Enhancing Relationships HCOM-100 Instructor Name

  2. Communication Principles

  3. Enhancing Relationships Preview • The Importance of Friendship • The Importance of Family • The Importance of Colleagues • Stages of Relationship Development • Managing Interpersonal Conflict

  4. The Importance of Friendship • Friendship over the Years • Childhood • Adolescent • peer relationships are the most important social influence on our behavior • Adult • Elderly and friendships

  5. Enhancing Friendships • Awareness of yourself • We Use Communication To Initiate, Develop, Deepen And Maintain Friendships • Listening And Responding Are Critical • Learn to Adapt

  6. The Importance of Family • Changing Nature of Family • Enhancing Family Relationships • Discover who we are in families • Earliest lessons about verbal and nonverbal communication • Family relationships are built upon trust • Family relationships involve adaptation

  7. The importance of Colleagues • On the job communication • Communication skills are highly valued • Enhancing Workplace Relationships • Uncertainty reduction • Verbal and nonverbal communication skills • Listening and responding • Adaptation is critical to successful coworker relationships

  8. Stages of Interpersonal Relationships • Relational Development Proceeds in Discernable Stages • IPC is Affected by the Stage of the Relationship • IPC is Affected by the Stage of the Relationship • IPC Facilitates Movement between the Various Stages

  9. Elevator Model

  10. Relational Escalation • Pre-Interaction Awareness • Initiation • Exploration • Intensification • Intimacy

  11. Relational De-Escalation • Turmoil or Stagnation • De-Intensification • Individualization • Separation • Post-Interaction

  12. Managing Interpersonal Conflict • IP Conflict is a struggle that occurs when two people cannot agree on a way to meet their needs.

  13. How Conflict Functions in Relationships • Conflict is normal • Constructive Conflict • Construct something new • Suggest areas of change • Revitalize the relationship • Destructive Conflict • Dismantles relationships • Lack of flexibility is the hallmark

  14. Conflict Involves Power • Interpersonal power means the ability to influence another in the direction we desire. • Power and Relationships • Complementary • Symmetrical • Parallel

  15. Assertive and Aggressive Communication • Assertive communication takes the listener’s feelings and rights into account; aggressive communication does not. • To assert yourself is to let your communication partner know that his or her behavior is infringing on your rights.

  16. Styles of Managing Conflict • Nonconfrontational • Placating • Distracting • Computing • Withdrawing • Giving in

  17. Styles of Managing Conflict • Confrontational • Control • Win/lose philosophy • Cooperative • Conflict is not a game • Conflict is a set of problems to be solved

  18. Conflict Management Skills • Manage Emotions • Manage Information • Manage Goals • Manage the Problem

  19. What questions do you have? Homework: 1.) Reading? 2.) Turn in assignments?

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