Pick a conversation you had with a person of another gender that illustrates two different Genderlect styles.
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Pick a conversation you had with a person of another gender that illustrates two different Genderlect styles. Answer the questions under each heading.
Conversation
- What conversation style did each of you use? (i.e. Connection versus Status) You may have used a style opposite of your gender.
- Identify evidence of each style in the conversation. Who said what? What did each person do? Think? Feel? Give specifics.
Coping Strategies
- Describe how each partner copes with the difference and/or similarity between these conversation styles i.e. anger, stuff feelings, manipulates, asks questions.
- How effective or ineffective are these coping strategies? Why?
- What would you tell your conversation partner to do or think that would make the conversation go better and improve the relationship?
Related Book For
Management of Organizational Behavior
ISBN: 978-0132556408
10th edition
Authors: Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Dewey E. Johnson
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