Exercise # 1
Step # 1
Choose a few examples in your life when you didn’t communicate the way you would have hoped to or when the message you wanted to say to someone was not taken the way you would have hoped for. There is a good chance you were using one of the three communication blunders above. (by the way don’t use examples where you communicated with people who are totally irrational by nature.)
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Step # 2
Categorize these few cases in your life and try to determine which 3 negative forms of communications they confirm to, i.e. indirect, aggressive or passive communication.
Examples: Aggressive, Indirect or Passive;
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