My Communication

My Communcication

            Do I communicate differently with different groups of people? Who doesn’t?

We have family, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings and cousins…. Then there are your friends, best friends, close friends, and acquaintances…. Then there are your colleagues and your boss, supervisors, etc. …

            Your family gets the respectful but informal type of communication… then when you think of your elders and your siblings and cousins who are your age they get the same communication your friends would… completely informal and relaxed, friendly and warm.

Your colleagues could get both a formal and informal type of communication depending on the situation.

Your boss depending on the relationship you share will always have a respectful and formal response from you.  Personally my boss and I share a personal relationship, as a result depending on the setting and the context in which we are communicating she may get a formal response in a meeting but when I am at her house for dinner there is a much less formal atmosphere.

So my communication style changes with context, settings, situations, and relationships.  Being a chameleon is what makes me a competent communicator.