Effective Communication with Different Groups

When I communicate with others at work I am more professional and adhere to my communication skills all the time. People at work and in my neighborhood are vastly different from each other. I still maintain respect and dignity at both work and home, but I have to be professional at work and at home I am more laid back and relaxed. I find myself communicating to others more openly and opinionatedly at home than at work. I work with a lot of diverse individuals and we agree to disagree respectfully with each other. We communicate in a manner that helps us to use the platinum rule. I do not feel that I communicate differently with other individuals based on their culture make up, race, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and varying abilities. I do believe that I make sure to show respect and dignity to others when I communicate. We have to understand the individuals we work with just as we understand the parents of the children we take care of. We must understand the cultural differences of our co-workers to make sure that we respect them for who they are and what they believe and how they live. This is also true for my friends and my neighbors. I do not know my neighbors very well, but I communicate to them and respect their home and property as I would want them to mine. Which is the platinum rule, "do to others as they themselves would like to be treated” by Milton Bennett. I was raised to respect others for who they are not how they believed or how they looked or how their economic status was. I was raised to show respect to others and be respectful to others no matter how they did or didn’t respect me. Communicating to others and communicating to them in a respectful manner is a verbal and nonverbal communication skill that has to be taught and learned, which is different for each culture, heritage, race, and ethnicity. I try to communicate to others and try to do so in a manner that demonstrates who I am as an individual that is professional when I have to be and laid back when I can be.