The Satir Modes refer to the communication styles categorized by Virginia Satir, a renowned family therapist. These modes are used to explain how individuals express themselves and interact with others. Understanding the Satir Modes can greatly enhance our communication skills and foster healthier relationships. There are four main modes: Placating involves excessive agreeability and prioritizing…
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What is the difference between advocacy communication and inquiry communication?
When you communicate, you function differently when you are in advocacy mode, and when you are in inquiry mode. Advocacy communication puts you in a position of “standing for”, or advocating a particular action, position or set of principles. In other words you are trying to persuade and argue for the position you are advocating….
What is The Abilene Paradox, Communicationwise?
The Abilene Paradox, Communication and GroupThink What is The Abilene Paradox? The Abilene Paradox was presented to the world by Jerry Harvey, in his book of management essays of the same name. In the first essay in the book, Harvey describes, in a humorous way that will immediately strike home, a conversation about “going to…
What are communication channels and why are they important?
Communication can be split into two parts — the message or content, and the channel it’s transmitted on. For example, you may want to communicate something about your emotional state — let’s say that you are angry. You can communicate that over a number of channels. You could write a letter. You could send email….
Why do the same words mean different things to different people?
People get perplexed because they may say something (a word, phrase or sentence) to one person and get one reaction and say the exact same thing to anther person, and get a completely different, or even opposite reaction. Don’t words mean what they mean? There are actually two distinct meanings to words and language. The…
What is cooperative communication?
Cooperative communication is a term coined by Robert Bacal in the 1990’s to describe communication techniques that tend to encourage people to work together, or cooperate (hence the name). The opposite of cooperative communication, he called confrontational communication. After working with thousands of people in seminars related to defusing hostile people, Robert noticed that some…