The two people that evaluated me were my husband and my Assistant Director at work. These two people are probably the two adults that I spend most of my time with if you are to consider time and home and time at work. As I looked back over the results similarities of the scores were that I fell in the same range of both the listening style and verbal aggressiveness. The differences were that my husband scored me higher but same range in the verbal aggressiveness and lower in the communication anxiety. When I read the results of how he scored me differently I was a little surprised at first but then as I thought over the results I realized that maybe it was just my comfort zone as to how I both communicated and listened to others. At home I feel most comfortable and do not have a fear of how I communicate. I know that I have unconditional acceptance. At work I know that I have to be cautious of how I say things and also struggle a bit with public speaking. My anxieties with public speaking are less then better I know my audience and the subject matter that I am speaking about. My anxiety also settles down once I have begun my delivery.
My scores vs. my husband
Communication Anxiety – Elevated / Moderate
Listening Styles – People Oriented
Verbal Aggressiveness – Moderate
When I was younger and living at home with my parents my dad would say when it came to arguing I had all the courage in the world and hoped that I would take that confidence and apply it to the outside world. However, when it comes to public speaking I lose most of my confidence. Just thinking about getting up in front of a group of people or answering a question in a meeting or classroom gets my heart beating faster. Unfortunately, it is this fear that I feel holds me back in life. It has kept me from doing many things that I would probably be very successful at.
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