Strategy 2

As I was reading strategy 2 and I came to the phrases for miscommunication, I thought to myself, "Wow, I say over half of these things to my husband on a daily basis." I then started thinking that it is very important to not talk to people in these ways because often times, people may think that you are prying or ordering them around. My favorite miscommunication phrase that I am famous for using is the interfering one. I have made myself a promise to stop using these phrases and to try to find other ways of putting my ideas in a more understanding, helping manner.

Strategy 1 Change the Culture and Context of Conflict

I'm fascinated with the idea of looking at conflict as opportunity. If we do look at conflict as opportunity, it definitely will have the effect of solving problems for good and help us develop better relationships with our coworkers. I think that often we do use the metaphors and language of war to describe our conflicts. It has never occurred to me that changing this language would turn conflict into productive discussion.

New Blog Address

Hey everyone,

I made a new Blog page for my vision. Check it out here.

Crisis Communications videos

Interesting videos on crisis communication:

Crisis Communications Failures - from 911

BP Oil Spill and their PR effort to Beat The Press - Mistakes made

The Alyona Show - BPs PR Epic Fail - In-depth description of mistakes made

Crisis Management | Got Bad News? Spit it Out! - the benefit of being honest

Cool Video Site

Here is a site a came across while looking for some good science video. There is a lot of content that is of interest to the educator. http://fora.tv/

Communication video

Here is the segment I posted to to my blog. This is from the PBS special Frontline: Digital Nation.

Authors

I have made everyone an author in this blog so you can now post your future of communications videos here. Danielle's link is Future of Communication. See you Tuesday.