When I think if a person that I admire as an effective communicator, I do not go far from home. I admire my mother's communications skills. My mom is a wife, a mother, a sister and an aunt. She is the communication leader of my family. We always know how she feels and what she expects of us. My dad and mom have a great relationship, they are the couple that never keeps anything from each other. My mom always tells me that you should tell your husband everything because communication is the key to happiness. When you don't communicate that leads to problems and consequences. Between my brother and me, we were always told what to do in the best possible way. My mom had a way of giving us chores and responsibilities like she was giving us gifts. We felt proud to get opportunities to show her what we could do.
I chose my mom because she always had time to talk to me and my brother. We would sit at the table and have dinner together so we could talk. We would share our days, the good and the bad. We always communicated to each other without judgement. My mom would offer suggestions and tell us, when you have a problem you have to communicate, do not assume people can read your mind. As a family, my mom held us together because she always promoting sharing whats on our mind.
Now that I am working in the field of early childhood education, I do my best to follow what I have learned about communication from my mother. I do my best to tell everyone in a professional manner how I feel about the situations that occur at work and the implementation of new programs. I would rather have the mines of communication open with my staff and we do our best to meet at least one a week to discuss new ideas. Promoting the skills I have learned from my mom would allow me to be an adequate leader that staff can rely on.
Communication is the most effective way to tell people how you feel. Body language is a form of communication that we continue to use without knowing what signals we are giving off. I hope during this course, I can learn how to effectively communicate in all aspects of my life.
Natasha,
ReplyDeleteAs I was reading your post, I felt so inspired by the way your mother has built strong relationship with you and your brother. She has given you an invaluable advice with regard to being completely transparent with your husband and communicating openly. I appreciate the way you initiate communication with your staff and maintain channels of exchange as you let them know your stance towards various issues. The NCA Credo promotes “sharing information, opinions, feelings when facing significant choices while also respecting also respecting privacy and confidentiality” (As cited in O’Haire, & Wiemann, 2012). I believe that this enables you to build collaborative relationships and overcome emerging obstacles. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Reem
Reference
O’Haire, D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real communication: An introduction. New York, NY:
Beford/St. Martin’s.
I'm sure you staff appreciates the open communication you have with them. It is a happier work environment when as an employee, you are able to talk to those above you as though they are equal. When they treat you as an inferior, you begin to feel like it and slack at your job. I think it's great that you have learned such great communication from your mother. I'm sure it helped a lot growing up, being able to talk to your mom and brother as though they were friends.
ReplyDeleteNatasha,
ReplyDeleteI can tell that you have great respect for your mother as a person and as a communicator. It is important that we all have a good role model for effective communication. Sharing thoughts and ideas is incredibly important in our personal and professional lives. It sounds like you are aware of the significance of open communication and that you strive to work toward promoting effective communication in all aspects of your life. I am sure that your family and staff appreciate that you place such high priority on fostering open communication.
Sharon
Hi Natasha,
ReplyDeleteAdmirable! What a gift your mother has given her family. Communication is so important, and I have seen that it struggles the most in families. Thank you for your post, because I now want to communicate things as if I was giving gifts. This gift also reflects in your blog posts.
-Cassie
I chose my mother as well! We are so lucky to have mothers that have such strong communication skills! We learn from the best! I really enjoyed reading your post!
ReplyDeleteNatasha, I think it is so great that you had such a good relationship with your mother. I think that now a days children, especially teenagers, are missing that successful positive communication with their children. I am 30 years old with a teen age daughter and I try my best to have open communication with her (and all my children) because I think it is so important. There are times when she will say "Mom, why do you ask me so many questions all the time?" I explain to her that it's my job to ask questions and that it shows that I care about her. I also think its awesome that you are now using what your mother taught you to help others in the early childhood field.
ReplyDeleteAmber
Natasha,
ReplyDeleteYour mom sounds like a great person to look up to. I agree completely with what she says about not communicating leading to problems. I think that if everything is out in the open, there will fewer issues and relationships can only grow stronger.
Tara Fleishman
Natasha
ReplyDeleteI like that you included the importance of body language. Sometimes body language can actually help us read someone's mind. If their body contradicts their words, or if they are not using words but sending messages via body language. However, I agree with your mom in that you should never leave important messages to chance and you should speak your mind.
Thanks for sharing.
~Lora
Natasha,
ReplyDeleteYou have a great post, and it's always great to talk about our parents as being effective communicators. Especially, mom's my mom is great communicator and I have seen her in action. I really enjoyed reading your post about your mom.