Sunday, January 29, 2012

Profile in communication

The profile I did was very similar to those done by my husband and a child care parent.  NO big surprise  I am a people-oriented listener but I try hard not to let it interfer with my judgement. This has gotten better over the years  and to be honest I still hold people at arms length before giving trusted information to them.

I must do a great job of covering my nerves. My husband  and the parent rated my as having mild anxiety when I am really very anxious person when I have to speak in front of an audience. Although I felt better about public speaking this last time in an interview than I have all year long in this job search process.

The verbal aggression scale was interesting to view. My husband rated me as "significant" and I can see this because at home I can let him know how I feel without it leave the walls of our house. I have on more than one occiasion said some teens have "rocks for brain" because of the things they show younger children  to do and the younger child then tries to copy it.  However the parent and I scored closer together  in the moderate range because I try not to hurt other feels when they say something but ask them how they might do that or lets give it a try and if it does not work we'll try something else or prove that statement to me; where did you get your information.

As I look to how to use this assessment I will try to work on my feeling of public speaking so I am closer to what I appear to be this is not a bad goal to work on considering I would like to do workshops on being a teacher in the early childhood field. This is also a good personal goal when interacting in new situations such as parties and workshops and conference that I am invited to or go to.

4 comments:

  1. Laury-

    I am glad to know that others have anxiety when it comes to talking to an audience. I can talk to kids but you ask me to talk to adults and forget it. I must cover my anxiety well too because the others that scored me said I was low in anxiety. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Laury,

    It was great that you were able to have your husband evauluate you because he is probably the one that hears it all. To know that he was willing to take the time and answer the questions was enough for me. My husband told me that he could not do it because if he did not answer the questions the way I wanted him to, there would be a problem. I did not agree with him but I chose to other people that are close to me.

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  3. My husband was more afraid of giving me the wrong answer thananything else. When I told him there are no right answers he relaxed about it. And yes you are right he does hear it all at times.

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  4. Laury,
    I too had my husband complete the survey. We both scored within the same range for Aggressiveness but he did score me higher. It's funny how that walls and unconditional love give us a boost of confidence to speak our peace.
    It is also comforting to know that I am not the only one with anxiety when it comes to public speaking. We have two professional training days every year and I have to lead a trainging course each time. People who sit in on my class say that I do well but if they could only see how nervous I am on the inside.

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