Monday, October 26, 2009
Parroting
~Daryl Justin De Rozario~
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Informative Speech
An informative speech should contain useful information that is unique for the audience and draws their attention towards the speech. If you can achieve this objective then you can easily become an informative speaker and deliver an informative speech in a proper manner. Most of the informative speeches either are written for some events or processes or are just meant to describe some new concepts and ideas.
Usually, it is not the speaker who selects the topic of presentation as the topic either is given by the high-level officers or is situational. However, if you need to figure out the topic for informative speech then you must concentrate on the topics or field in which you are an expert. Try to recall the personal experiences relating to that topic that you can include in your speech. Then the next step would be to do detailed study of the subject so that you have knowledge about every aspect of the topic. For an informative speech, it is very important that you include the matter by gathering material for the speech from libraries or from the internet.
An informative speech should be divided into three parts. First, a brief introduction of the topic is required. Then the body part of the speech should include all the details. At last, you need to conclude on a specific solution. The conclusion should draw the meaning for the informative speech and include the message to be delivered within the conclusion part of the speech. An informative speech requires the speaker to adjust the body language according to the type of explanation required, as some audiences may feel distracted due to irregular body language. Practice makes a person perfect in delivering a speech; therefore, you must practice the speech so that all the pros and cons are clear in your mind if you have chosen a controversial topic.
Louis Beh ®
Group Communication
Monday, October 19, 2009
The 101 on Resisting Pressure to Self-Disclose
1) Don’t be pushed:
Realize that we are in control of what and who to reveal to. If we are hesitant in revealing, do not reveal until we are sure we want to share our thoughts/ feelings with others.
2) Be indirect and move to other topic
Play dumb and avoid questions we are uncomfortable with. Try to change topics to hint the other party.
3) Be assertive in your refusal to disclose
If the other party is still oblivious to your hints, tell them that you’re not comfortable talking about those matters.
-Carmen Lee-
To disclose or not to disclose
1) Consider the motivation to self-disclose
Before self-disclosing, make sure that the motive of it is to bring more good than harm.
2) Consider the appropriateness of the self-disclosure
Time, place etc must be taken into consideration. Self-disclosure should be done to a person who could help you or a close friend and not some random people on the street.
3) Consider the disclosures of the other person
When you are self-disclosing, be aware of the other party’s reaction. If she is not responsive and responds awkwardly, that is an indication for you to stop self-disclosing.
4) Consider the possible burdens self-disclosure might entail
Weigh the possible effects of self-disclosing before blurting all your deep dark secrets. Will it take a toll on your personal/professional life? And also think about the person you’re disclosing to. Will it be a good choice to tell your friend about how you accidentally killed someone? If it leaves the listener with mental scars, do not self-disclose.
-Carmen Lee-
Last post.
Breath in for luck
Breath in so deep.
This is air is blessed you share with me.
It means, the writer is thankful and he thinks the air around the girl he loves is blessed because they get to see each other that night. He takes deep breaths because he is excited.
This night is wild
So calm and dull
These hearts they race from self control.
The writer describes the night as wild,calm and dull. Both of their hearts are beating fast because they are emotionally excited.
Your legs are smooth
As the grazed mine
We're doing fine, Were doing nothing at all.
Just by the slightest touch of her leg. He is so emotionally affected that he had to put it into this song. It explains just how much he loves her.
My hopes are so high
That your kiss might kill me
So wont you kill me
So i die happy.
My heart is yours to fill or burst
To break or bury
or wear as jewelery
whichever you prefer.
The writer states that he loves her so much that even her kiss will eventually lead to his death.
He continues by saying that he would die at that moment because he knows that he will be happy spending his last breath on earth with the girl he loves. He later adds that his heart is hers and she can do whatever she wants with it.
A song or music can be used to write a story or even a love letter.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Interpersonal Attraction
Interpersonal attraction is the attraction between people which leads to friendships and romantic relationships. Interpersonal attraction is related to how much we like, love, dislike, or hate someone. It can be viewed as a force acting between two people that tends to draw them together and resist their separation. When measuring interpersonal attraction, one must refer to the qualities of the attracted as well as the qualities of the attractor to achieve predictive accuracy. It is suggested that to determine attraction, personality and situation must be taken into account. Repulsion is also a factor in the process of interpersonal attraction, one's conception of "attraction" to another can vary from extreme attraction to extreme repulsion.
Louis Beh ®
Message Meanings Are In People
That sensitivity is especially vital when it comes to aligning the meanings that people inside and outside the organization have for the words and symbols that organizations use to communicate. It's common practice to do focus groups with customers to test promotional messages for interpretation and impact before rolling out a big advertising campaign. However, you rarely see the same attention given to assessing how employees inside the organization interpret those promotional words and symbols. What's more, the implications are seldom considered for how employees need to perform in order to deliver on the promises being made in the marketplace.
- Don't ask what a word means - because IT doesn't mean anything. Instead, ask what people mean by the words they use.
- Don't assume people know what you mean when you tell them something or send out a message. Check to make sure they've interpreted it the way it was intended.
- Don't ask people if they understand what you mean if you want to make sure they understand something important. Ask them to repeat what you've said until you're satisfied you share the same meaning.
- Don't expect to find common ground in a debate about the meaning of a word, but rather in a conversation committed to a common understanding of what is meant by the people using it. As the famed communication theorist, Marshall McLuhan, once said, "Propaganda ends where dialogue begins."
Louis Beh ®
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Last but one post.
On not so rare occasions when your girlfriend suddenly appears at your house as a surprise, there is a chance when she's there she's going to ask you where you got all those stuff. ||
Tell her you got it from your sister or cousins. THERE YOU GO.
On the other hand, it is bad for your relationship too. So think about it first. DO you want to have a long relationships based on lies or do you want to end that relationship so that you can find other relationships that will lead you to the perfect one.
To those who are not in a relationship right now. Just wait and one day you will find the perfect one.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Love triangle
Love triangles can either be relatively balanced, in which the two candidates each have a fair chance of ending up with the protagonist, or they can be lopsided, in which the hero or heroine has an obvious romantic interest in one of the candidates, and considers the other candidate as less permanent love triangle occurs when a former lover of the main character makes an unexpected appearance to win back the character's heart, provoking feelings of jealousy from the main character's steady partner. However, this situation is usually not considered an actual love triangle since there is little possibility of the main character breaking up with a longtime partner to pursue a just-introduced character, and it is often used as only a test of the true depth of the main character's devotion to their partner.
Usually, a love triangle will end with the hero or heroine confiding their feelings in the suitor they feel is most virtuous or has the most interest in them. The other suitor usually steps aside to allow the couple to be happy, or comes to terms with their feelings, often claiming they couldn't love the main character as much. Sometimes they are written out of the love equation entirely by falling in love with someone else, or being killed off or otherwise eliminated. While love triangles can be accused of being cliche, if done well, they provide insight into the complexity of love and what is best to pursue in a romantic relationship.
~kAv!p Pr3yA..,
Phones
Nice
Conflict...
verbally or non-verbally. How if a pair of 'best friend' fight. What do they do and how they react?
The reason for this is because our brains default to a fear response system when we encounter something that puts us in the conflict. Unless we consciously choose to make peace, we will end up fighting.Conflict is good because it tells us that there is something that needs to be changed. In addition, conflict pushes us to be innovative, changing things that need improvement for the better. The problem with conflict is how we approach it. If we approach conflict from an unconscious perspective, too easily conflict can become destructive. The fear response system in our brains, if left in default mode, will compel us to freeze, flee, or fight. This can be very destructive because as people fight each other, obvious great damage can occur. On the other hand, conflict can be very constructive if people are conscious about it. If people realize that there is a conflict between them, and they consciously choose a peaceful process, they can then choose a number of different tools to assist them in finding a new, improved solution to an existing problem. In those cases, the lives of everybody will be much better. However, the key is being conscious about the conflict. Unconscious conflict is destructive; conscious conflict is constructive.Have you ask yourself how conflict solve their understanding?
~kAv!p Pr3yA,
A better alternative - Talking.
There is only one real alternative to solving conflicts beside force. This is by plain talking. Talking doesn’t bring negative effects like how force does. Still, many people fail to recognize the importance of talking in solving conflicts. Though talking is a more peaceful way in settling conflicts, it requires patience, time and great self-control. Famous, influential people like President Barack Obama knows how to talk his way out of conflicts. This quality is crucial in salvaging relationships.
- Carmen Lee-
Solving Conflicts by Force
-Carmen Lee-
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Defensive Communication
Defensive behavior is defined as that behavior which occurs when people perceive threat or anticipates threat in the group. People who behave defensively, even though they also give some attention to the common task, devote an appreciable portion of energy to defend themselves. Besides talking about the topic, they think about how they appear to others, how they may be seen more favorably, how they may win, dominate, impress or escape punishment, and how they may avoid or mitigate a perceived attack.
Such inner feelings and outward acts tend to create similarly defensive postures in others; and, if unchecked, the ensuing circular response becomes increasingly destructive. Defensive behavior, in short, engenders defensive listening, and this in turn produces postural, facial and verbal cues which raise the defense level of the original communicator.
Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message. Not only do defensive communicators send off multiple value, motive and affect cues, but also defensive recipients distort what they receive. As people become more and more defensive, they become less and less able to perceive accurately the motives, the values and the emotions of the sender. The writer's analysis of tape recorded discussions revealed that increases in defensive behavior were correlated positively with losses in efficiency in communication.
The converse, moreover, also is true. The more "supportive" or defense-reductive the climate, the less the receiver reads into the communication distorted loadings which arise from projections of his own anxieties, motives and concerns. As defenses are reduced, the receivers become better able to concentrate upon the structure, the content and the cognitive meanings of the message.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Miss-fire communications
Well, the analysis is that my words to her was double meaning. It shows that I did not think before I present my compliments which in turns leads to misunderstanding. The next was that I assumed that she knew what I meant and know what I think. Classic fouls. Last but not least, her expressions. It is a mean of displaying one's emotions. Like in Lie to Me. A quick smirk can mean as satisfaction. Hers was just blank, and it might mean that she was trying to hide her emotions or just making me guess. Personally, I think that if retreat was not my option, it probably mite turn ugly or we'll just laugh it out though.
p/s: Carmen, sorry again. But it was fun to laugh at it now. rofl
~Daryl Justin De Rozario~
True Love
- Passion
- Intimacy
- commitment
~Daryl Justin De Rozario~
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Lie To Me
Monday, October 5, 2009
Reaction
Herr von Osten had a horse, Han, in fact a smart horse. He thought it to count and answer questions on addition, subtraction and multiplication. After sometime, Han could even answer question on language. It made headlines which quickly spread throughout Europe in the early 1900s. Naturally scientists, psychology professors, and veterinarians were skeptical and established a commission to decide whether its trickery or its just plain smart. What they discovered was that when they asked a question, they asked it loudly for everyone in the hall to know also and it answer correctly. But when they whispered the question, it was just dumbfounded. So, what it means is that whenever the question is asked loudly, the answer is answered to Han by the crowd. Because the crowd gives out reactions no matter Han's answer is right or wrong. It therefore knew the answer.
Case 2
Have you ever experience this? That whenever a phone rings and someone tells you to turn the volume mute, and because the volume is mute, you tend to watch the film or movie in a different a way by watching out for the facial expression on the face of the actors, or the reactions to the actions did. Also looking more detail into the show whether the performers is smiling, or squinting or scowling. You don't miss a bit of the story even though it is muted because just from their expression, you can tell what they are thinking about and what are they trying to say.
In everyday life, what you should is even when talking, keep an eye on your listener and watch how they’re responding to what you’re saying. Are they smiling? Are they nodding? Are their palms up? They like what they’re hearing. Are they frowning? Are they looking away? Are their knuckles clenched? Maybe they don’t find it interesting.. Are they rubbing their necks? Are they stepping back? Are their feet pointing toward the door? Maybe they want to get away. Most people know if their conversation partners step back or look away, they’re not interested in what you’re saying. When they think you’re a pain in the neck they rub theirs. When they feel superior to you, they steeple their hands. You don’t need a complete course in body language to know all this if you watch closely. Make it a habit to get on a dual track while talking. Express yourself, but keep a keen eye on how your listener is reacting to what you’re saying. Then plan your moves accordingly.
The purpose of the story is that PEOPLE or HUMANS gives out reaction no matter what the topic or matter is about. All we need to do is learn how catch and see the reaction. If Han, a horse can do it, why cant you?
~Daryl Justin De Rozario~
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The end of communication.
Personality
While there are many different theories of personality, the first step is to understand exactly what is meant by the term personality. A brief definition would be that personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. In addition to this, personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life.
Some of the fundamental characteristics of personality include:
- Consistency - There is generally a recognizable order and regularity to behaviors. Essentially, people act in the same ways or similar ways in a variety of situations.
- Psychological and physiological - Personality is a psychological construct, but research suggests that it is also influenced by biological processes and needs.
- Impact behaviors and actions - Personality does not just influence how we move and respond in our environment; it also causes us to act in certain ways.
- Multiple expressions - Personality is displayed in more than just behavior. It can also be seen in out thoughts, feelings, close relationships, and other social interactions.
While our informal assessments of personality tend to focus more on individuals, personality psychologists instead use conceptions of personality that can apply to everyone. Personality research has led to the development of a number of theories that help explain how and why certain personality traits develop.
kAv!p pR3yA..;)
Z for Zebra ( I couldnt resist that !) ;D
The art of communicating with Z is simple. All you have to do is not talk. Z loves being the centre of the universe and any minute not spent talking about herself is a minute wasted. Take away all the “I” , “me”, “my”, “mine” in her conversations and she can barely string a sentence.
Besides that, Z is also not the kind of person who will rejoice in people’s happiness. In fact, every time someone succeeds, Z will give that person a phoney half-smile and you could see pure jealousy in her eyes. Sometimes, I do pity Z as I know she must be unhappy with her life. Z is a nice girl but she needs to find the balance and know when to talk and when to listen.
-Carmen Lee-
Each and Every Action There is a Meaning
kAv!p pR3yA..
Her Greatest Gift
Friendship of Reciprocity is a 2-way friendship. It is based on equality and this kind of friendship is characterized by loyalty, self-sacrifice, mutual affection, and generosity.
I have a good friend named S. She means the world to me and I’m sure she thinks likewise. Our friendship has survived all odds as we have been through everything together, from family problems to crushing on the same boy. Though so, our friendship remained the same if not, even better. S and I will talk on the phone for hours every evening. During those hours, we will have equal amount of time to talk about what happened and every time one party talks, the other listens.
S did the greatest thing one day when I broke a lunchbox of our mutual friend’s. S accompanied me to look for a new lunchbox to replace the broken one. We spent the whole day scavenging for a similar lunchbox in malls around KL. After many hours, we finally decided that the search was a failure as no mall seems to stock these kinds of lunchboxes as my friend bought it in Japan. Seeing the look of disappointment and defeat on my face, S told me she was willing to spare me her newly bought lunchbox from Japan. She passed her lunchbox to me with no hesitation and asked me to give it to our friend and to say it was from me.
I knew S LOVED her lunchbox, why, the moment she got back from Japan, she was droning on and on about how she bought the prettiest lunchbox . The fact that she was willing to give it to me makes me smile just thinking about it. In times like these, people get to see who their true friends are. According to S, I’ve done some pretty amazing things for her too. But I’m not going to write on that here as I’ll just be blowing my own trumpet. ;p
"The best of friendships are the ones where two friends can sit on a swing, not saying a word, but walk away feeling like u just had the best conversation ever."
-Carmen Lee-
Public Speaking
One of the worst mistakes is that we can make as a public speaker is talking too long. It doesn't matter if our entire speech were brilliant and the audience came away with information that will change their lives. If we talk too long, they will leave saying, "That speaker just would not quit." Don't let this happen to us. Say what we have to say and sit down. Before we do, give them a well thought out closing.
If the subject is appropriate, I happen to be fond of humorous closings for several reasons. If we leave them laughing and applauding, we will exit, but an extremely positive impression about us will remain. Another good reason to leave them laughing is that the room will not be deadly silent as we are walking back to our seat. I hate when that happens. I do love laughter and feeling good; finishing a speech humorously gives me and the audience an opportunity to feel great. Speeches that are for entertainment purposes only should generally leave the audience laughing.
In brief, don't be afraid to use humor when speak in public.
Leadership Function
Leaders are the decision makers so they are free to take decision. First of all, they must consult with the team and then impose the decision . However, there are some points which are no liable to be consulted with staff . They are the principles set by the organization and governing the code of conduct. The most important quality of the leadership is to asses the performance of the organization and reputation among the public . If the organization is an educational institute , then it must sustain its standard and provide quality education along with talented scholars .The leadership functions also contains alignment of organizational practices with values and vision . This mean that the organization must follow values and the vision .Leaders can alter organizational practices and standards so as to make them suitable for the people to adapt and avail. They take initiative for the improvement of the intuition and its products . They also facilitate the quality interactions among the staff as well as the general public or consumers.
In conclusion, leadership is the back bone for the development and structure of any organization.