Experience in the Leadership and Communication

A. Reflect on your experience in the Leadership and Communication course by doing the following: 1. Provide a brief overview of your understanding of your Energy Graph from the Learning Report, including two personal strengths and two personal challenges that relate to your working style. Note: Consider discussing your intensity level (Extreme, Effortless, Deliberate, Stress) in your main dynamics—Explore, Excite, Examine, and Execute—and how they relate to your strengths and challenges. 2. Describe your experience(s) of conversations as they relate to the laws of conversation and the four levels of the conversation meter. 3. Discuss your strategies for being a successful student, including how you will incorporate your strengths and address your challenges. 4. Reflect on your overall experience in the course and how it applies to two of the following: academic activities, professional career, or personal life. B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission. TASK 2 Select a conversation where you had a disagreement that had an impact on you and triggered a bioreaction. The conversation could have been a long time ago or recently. A. Explain what happened during the disagreement by answering the following questions: • Describe the situation that led to the conversation. • When did you realize that there was a disagreement during the conversation? • Describe a bioreaction(s) that was experienced during the disagreement. • How did the conversation end? B. Analyze the conversation by answering the following questions: • Using the four levels of the conversation meter, what level were you listening at, and what level was the other person listening at? • Give examples of two factors that describe how you and they were listening in at these levels in the conversation meter: feelings, behaviors, language, or tone. • What were your points of alignment or disagreement? C. Reflect on how the conversation encouraged you to listen differently by answering the following questions: • How could you have listened differently moving up the conversation meter, and what effect would that have had on the disagreement? • How could you incorporate listening for needs, purpose, or concern to create value in the conversation (including describing what that would look like)? • What have you learned about accuracy and authenticity that could be used to improve the conversation? TASK 1 Note: Complete the Learning Brains and bioreaction material found in module 1 in your course of study before completing this task. A. Describe a time when you were in a social situation that triggered a bioreaction(s) by doing the following: 1. Describe the environment around you before and during the bioreaction(s). 2. Describe the stimulus (which the amygdala interprets as a threat) that triggered the bioreaction. 3. Describe the bioreaction(s) (i.e., fight, flight, freeze, and appease) you experienced. 4. Describe the physical sensations (e.g., sweaty palms, tight muscles) you experienced in your body when you became aware of the bioreaction(s). 5. Describe the feeling(s) you experienced in the social situation before, during, and after the bioreaction(s). 6. Describe what you would do differently to successfully navigate this type of reaction the next time you experience a similar social situation. a. Reflect on why it is important to react differently when you experience this bioreaction.                                                                                                      

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