A negative communication event

For this final discussion, turn your powers of critical inquiry onto yourself, with the goal of understanding your role in contributing to a “negative communication event”. A “negative communication event” is nothing more than an interaction you have had – with another person or a group of people – that did not go well. We have all been there!

Maybe it was a meeting with a colleague, coworker, or team, or perhaps a discussion with a partner, friend, or neighbor. Be creative, and consider using a recurring situation; maybe next time it will go better!

These negative communication events are problems to be understood, and if we’re lucky, maybe solved, even if after the fact. Critical inquiry, here we come!

For your initial discussion post:

Describe the situation (who, where, what, etc.) and what resulted from it.
Next, using what you learned in this week’s module about critical self-reflection (and what you learned about critical inquiry throughout the course), apply specific questions about your participation in that event, with the goal of understanding how your own thinking, biases, assumptions, or other internal thought processes may have contributed to the problem.
Finally, based upon your critical self-reflection, identify any biases, assumptions, or perspectives that you believe contributed to the negative outcomes of that communication event, and propose how you would approach that communication event differently.

Requirements: no limit