Interpersonal; (adjective) - of or
relating to relationships or communication between people: you will need good interpersonal skills.
Did you catch it? It’s like the example sentence was
directed to us! (Weird^2)
(yeah yeah….
I know it looks long but I just couldn’t stop myself J)
A huge shout out to Lauren and
Dylan on a job well done, I very much enjoyed your learning session was well
put together and the execution was superb.
It also got me thinking about another class I am in right now, and if
you’ve taken a presentation class you’ll probably know what I’m talking
about.
In this course the professor drills
into our heads the difference between a lecture/speech and a presentation. A presentation is different because it
requires audience involvement. This just
happens to be oh so very important, especially for us as peer mentors. Getting people involved during a presentation
can have a tremendous impact on the desired outcome.
Dylan, Lauren, and Amy all did an
excellent job of encouraging discussion with our neighbor and then facilitating
discussion as a group. Talking with your
partner first can help build confidence and takes away the stress of maybe
saying the wrong thing as a group.
Discussing gets us to regurgitate the information and this forces us to
think about the topic and eventually process the information.
Processing is by far one of my
favorite parts of an activity, it might be the engineer coming out in me but we
can all appreciate its value. It’s the
point in a presentation where you can challenge the audience and really drive
in the message. I know we have all had those “huh… that makes a lot of sense”
moments, I think I do every other day in EM 274. It’s the point where we take all the
knowledge, material, terms, ideas and “process” it into what matters and why we
should care. Real powerful stuff ->
use with caution ;).
Since they did such a great job of
putting this elements together I know I was able to walk away with a greater
understand of interpersonal communication and its importance. The “Tips for Sending Messages” on pg. 118 of
our text really stuck out to me as some things to always keep in mind. Things
like taking personal ownership by using “I” and “my” shows that they really are
your thoughts, ideas, and feelings and our peers can have no doubts that we do
in fact feel that way. We can always
look for feedback to be sure our messages are being received in the way we
intended. The one in particular that I
am personally going to work on is to describe behaviors without evaluating or
interpreting. Instead of identifying how
somebodies actions may seem or makes me feel, I would be wise to identify their
action and let them know how it is affecting others or myself.
I don’t know about you guys, but I
am looking forward to some awesome lessons from the rest of our group. See you
Wednesday!
~Easten
I am really nervous that when it is my turn to teach the class I wont do as well as Amy, Lauren, and Dylan have, they did rock! I also like how you can incorporate this class with your other ones.
ReplyDeleteI remember the good old days when things didn't move in my classes, that was when i had "aha" moments, now I have shoot this stuff makes no sense moments. Carly and I are doing the lesson this week. Let's just say I'm a bit nervous.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog - you put a lot of effort into it. We definitely have a couple of standard bearers to try to match when we give our lesson plan in a month.
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