Communication Assessment

As I look at the similarities and differences between how I evaluated myself as a communicator and how others (My Husband) and (My father-in-law) evaluated me I was somewhat discouraged at the way my “Verbal Aggressiveness Scale” Point score. I thought I was in the Low level stage as trying to remain respectful of others and viewpoints but my score showed to be in the high level which leads me to believe that I often “attack” and “ridicule” others and not consider their viewpoints. I may think to attack and ridicule viewpoints but to be honest I try and remain considerate and not actually be verbally aggressive unless I’m upset and find myself in a disagreement with someone (most likely my husband) or my 6 year old daughter (that sometimes has a hard time listening and wants to make her own decisions when I tell her to do something). As far as my communication anxiety score I scored myself higher than my communicators. I see myself as having a moderate level of communicating anxiety and take precautions when speaking with people whereas my communicators both placed me in the Mild level of anxiety which shows that I’m a confident communicator.  The one thing that surprised me the most is the fact that my listening style profile group remained the same. All in the level of group one. It’s nice to see that they believe I’m a people oriented person and often build relationships with others. I do agree with the description about remaining very trusting of other people and this could be a slight downfall, which is one of the insights I gained from this assessment. I believe that I trust others as I would want them to trust me and if I don’t receive the same amount of trust back or find myself in a situation of mistrust. I become less of a communicator. I would like to share my blog with a few of my colleagues and ask that you post comments of your thoughts I greatly appreciate them. Thanks!