Developmental analysis concepts and applications

Interpersonal Communication: A Plan for Growth
Developmental Analysis
Introduction
Hello. My name is XYZ, and I am presenting today my interpersonal communication plan, which will demonstrate the course-related knowledge with a commitment to developing and maintaining healthy, healing, and helping relationships. With effective communication, I will express my ability to compose and deliver a message effectually. The main points of my presentation are:
· An overarching life or career goal and the role of interpersonal communication in line.
· Behavioral blend along with my background and identity and challenges/opportunities I have faced as a communicator
· Communication barriers I have faced throughout this course and their effect on my relations
· Strategies that I feel might help remove those barriers
· Action plan for implementation of those strategies
Overarching Goal
· To become a motivational speaker or teaching.
· Both of these involve speaking in crowds, and this is the area I want to enhance my communication skills.
My overarching goal of life or career goal is to become an energetic, motivational speaker or to become a professor. This goal is essential to me as I have been very good at speaking in crowds since I was very young, as I did not feel restricted in expressing my thoughts. There are times when I might want to hold back my feelings, especially when there is someone close standing in the crowd so that I should not hurt his feelings, but still, I manage to deliver the overall central idea of the conversation. I feel I have influential “people” skills, and I can interact and influence them. The reason for the impression that I can change people is that I am cautious in selecting my words so that I do not upset them. Instead, I try my best to comfort them by being warm through my communication style. Besides, I like to research and prepare before I engage in any conversation, which is a great advantage if I become a professor. I am also a problem solver to support and inspire others.
Behavioral Blend and Background
· Communication style involves being inspiring and submissive
· Sometimes shy but comfortable speaking in large groups
· A crowd-pleaser and a loyal friend
· Very emotional and show concern for others openly and privately
My background and identity make me both motivating and passive since I might be friendly and enthusiastic in my conversation, but I lack assertiveness. As I mentioned above, I try to keep some feelings to myself so that the other person should not feel offended. I do not like to have conflict, and I overthink before saying something. I try to avoid making others unhappy, and for that, I sometimes give control of the conversation to others. I do not pressurize anything on anyone since I want everyone around me to be happy. I am a problem solver, and when somebody gets to me for help, I listen to him or her privately. Both these negative and positive aspects of my personality influence my communication style, and there have been challenges faced as well. Challenges include other taking control over me and me neglecting to be firm against them. In such a situation, I do not put my viewpoint forward in front of people. On the positive side, it has sometimes come out as an opportunity to make friends sooner since I try my best not to hurt anyone’s feelings. I do stand out in the crowd but stay behind when the time comes, and the situation requires.
Communication Barriers
The most significant interpersonal communication barriers and issues that I face are:
· Letting people intimidate me into doing things that I don’t want to
· Resisting others if they make me look bad in front of people
· Extremely emotional and get hurt easily
· Always struggling whether or not I should speak against others
These barriers have negatively affected my relations since when these situations occur, I try to stay away from that person or circumstances so that I should not hurt him or get hurt myself. I try to refrain from people who work to degrade me in front of others or make me do something I don’t want to as I know I would not be able to say no and would have to do something undesirable. It puts me in a constant struggle whether I should negate what people assume since I feel that would make them mad about me, and I would feel torn about what to do. Although I am an excellent public speaker and can participate in conversation light-heartedly, there are times when I have to decide how to respond and think before speaking. As long I stay positive and agree to what others say, I become acceptable for them. I am aware that there are conditions when I need to be more determined in my actions and words, and for that, I become problematic in my self.
Resource and Strategies
The strategies and resources that I will use to overcome barriers in my interpersonal communication are:
· Using communicative strategies such as turn-taking, repair, and termination.
· Collaborating more by saying “yes” before saying “no.”
There are seven communicative strategies, which are nomination, restriction, turn-taking, topic control, topic shifting, repair, and termination; I will make use of three of them. With the help of turn-taking, I will first give them a turn to express themselves, and I will let them speak their whole heart out. Then I will take my chance to say what I feel and think about the topic. In this way, a productive conversation will take place by giving me more opportunities to argue positively. With the strategy of repair, I will let others initiate to set the discussion straight and then encounter with my perspectives. It will allow me to understand and address the situation in a better way. The termination strategy will be used for ending the conversation positively so that soliciting agreement from others could give a meaning to the discussion. The approach of agreeing more before disagreeing and saying no will help me put my opinion in front of others. First, I will take them in confidence, and they will feel comfortable in listening to what I have to say rather than pressurizing me into doing something unwanted.
Action Plan
· GPA theory: “Action”- explicitness, dominance, argument and control over outcomes
· Attempt to negotiate
By making use of the “action” part of the GPA theory of interpersonal communication, I can focus on four dimensions and inculcate them into my action plan for implementing resources and strategies. If I try to be as explicit as possible, it would be beneficial for me to utter a clear message to others, and it would be easier for them to understand. I will try to be less dominant since that is the type of personality I have. I do not want to hurt other people’s sentiments and evade conflict. I will try maximum argument but with positive justification to avoid implanting negative thoughts into other participant’s minds about me. I will try to be less controlling; hence, this dimension might be less in my conversation, but I will be as persuasive as possible. Consequently, I will try to create circumstances of negotiation where both participants have a win-win situation.
Conclusion
I can work well with people since I can get along with them quickly. I can be passively aggressive. I am not very demanding and don’t feel the need to be dominant. I want to conclude with a quote from Anthony Robbins, who is an American author and a motivational speaker, “To communicate effectively, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
References
BrainyQuote. (2020). Perceive Quotes. Retrieved from https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/perceive-quotes