Sukay's ARP

This Blog is specifically for journal entries regarding my Action Research project, conducted in accordance with my studies in the OMET program at Pepperdine University.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

Better questions and a little fear.

As I read through various books on communication styles , I've come to the conclusion that my first step (first cycle?) will be to take one or more communication and/or personality tests and then asking my peers to also take the tests but to fill them out not for themselves but as a way of evaluating me... kind of scary... but I think it will produce more objective results than simply interviewing them or asking them questions which I've come up with personally. I will then correlate the results to see first - if there is any relationship between what I find based on my own answers, and what my colleagues perceive about me. Ok... this isn't kind of scary, this is REALLY scary... what happens if they perceive me to be entirely different from the way I see myself? My next step (not sure if this is still cycle 1 or the beginning of cycle 2) will be to share the results with my team/colleagues and explore the correlations and differences. I'd like to have a discussion about how each person thinks I can improve my communication with them - not sure yet if these would be private meetings, some kind of group discussion, or both. I have to be careful to not encroach on their time too much or too often, as everyone feels that they are under a great deal of pressure right now.

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