My Final Goodbyes

I am preparing my blog as my heart begins to feel heavy only because we have come to the end of another interesting but yet fulling class. I must say that this is been an eye opening experience for me these past 8 weeks and without you guys comments, support and motivation I wouldn't been able to make it. I thank you. I want to wish all of you guys well with great success. We are done with our core courses and now its time for our specialization areas and soon graduation. I want you guys to always put your best foot forward in whatever you do and to keep God or whomever you serve 1 st in your life. If you need anythign please don't hesitate dropping me a line via-email.

Team Building

I remember when I was in the academy for the Sheriff Department for 8 weeks with a total of about 36 individuals. On the first day or orientation I didn't know what to expect I just look at it as I am going to do these 8 weeks graduate and have a good paying job. Little did I know that each day each week me and my classmates became closer and closer to each other. We began forming study groups with each other to ensure we all past the test, workout session so that those that was physically meeting the requirements met the requirements and even began eating and going out together. You can say we were one big happy family.
Out of all the groups I have been involved in I would definitely say that my academy class was the hardest to leave. Even though after graduation we were going to the same place but we would no longer see each other like we did for 8 weeks and we had the greatest class counselor ever. On our last day we did a team bilding and even though we had already bonded well it made the team bulding exercise even better. On graduation we all cried tears of joy and we have our class counselor a token of our appreciate. Right before graduation we all sat in  a circle and we talked about the ups and downs of academy and how at the end we all made it.
I feel adjourning is essential to teamwork because it tells you your strengths and weakness what you can achieve as a team to continue or to get stronger.

Nonviolent Communication

Its funny that we are suppose to blog about htis particular topic of nonviolent communication. I can recall a recent situation in my personal life when I was having just a small heated conversation and both of us were going back and forth and no one could hear no one because of the yelling. I suddenly realized and ask myself why are you yelling because this is not a way to solve a situation. So I just hushed and allow the other person to continue vent because at this point that is what they was doing because I began to listen. I think allowed them to get whatever it was off of their chest and I remember in order to have a civilized conversation you have to respect, respond, and reciporate.  Once the other person observed my actions they were able to calm down and we were able to began an adult conversation. By the end of hte conversation we both listen to each other views and we were able to agree and disagree without being disagreeable.
I believe that the only thing that changed the disagreement was one had to show respect for the other so both parties ended up respecting each other.
The question I have for my colleagues is what other way could this been avoided.

Who Am I as a Communicator

    As I participated in this week's assignment I learned that even though I feel I am a better listener than a talker to a point I talk every now and then people looked at me as a better talker when it comes to meeting people or just talking in general. Its odd because I am kind of shy when it comes to talking in public or just opening up to people, but I guess as I get older I find it as a gift of evanglism.
    
      When I saw my results it just boost my confidence up to want to speak more. I was told that it makes it easier for people to get to know me when I talk because I am a humble individual and when I speak if some I love I have passion about the topic or conversation.
With that information shared about me it works highly in my favor because i'm in a career to where I talk to young people almost all day long and sometime I talk to others to try to get them involved in volunteering.

      I was taught not to talk so much and just listen and I guess now its the opposite talk much and others will listen. Now when it comes to my personal life it takes me a minute to get to talking but once I get to talking then that is the ice breaking. I guess I have to feel comfortable when it comes to talking unless I am already close to you. I am still working on that one.