ROADBLOCKS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Some of us have trouble communicating effectively with others – especially family members. We think that we are “entitled” to behave and communicate differently with those closest to us because we don’t have to be on our “best behavior” due to familiality, attitude of “they’ll get over it and should understand” and so on.
Look at the following list and see if you recognize these roadblocks in your communication with others. If so, you are not an effective communicator that wants mutuality, unconditional positive regard, and respect in your relationships with others. Contact me at www.drkathiemathis.com to help you overcome these and other roadblocks in your life:
1. Ordering, directing, commanding
2. Warning, admonishing, threatening
3. Moralizing, preaching, imploring
4. Advising, giving suggestions or solutions
5. Persuading with logic, lecturing, arguing
6. Judging, criticizing, disagreeing, blaming
7. Praising, agreeing, evaluating positively, buttering up
8. Name calling, ridiculing, shaming
9. Interpreting, analyzing, diagnosing
10. Reassuring, sympathizing, consoling, supporting
11. Probing, questioning, interrogating
12. Distracting, diverting, kidding