Family Relationships
Successful Family Relationships = Communication
Successful Communication = Successful Family Relationships |
The work that we do, without exception, will have an impact on our relationships, our relationships at work and at home.
Work can provide us with many benefits, such as financial security, challenge, and a sense of belonging.
Work can also make us feel stressed, undervalued, unchallenged and ultimately miserable.
How we manage these emotional states is vital to our continued success, putting down sound foundations will ensure that when problems arise you are fully equipped to overcome any such problem, you can stand firm, safe in the knowledge that your foundations are secure and you will not waiver.
Perhaps the most important foundation for you to secure is that of your relationships at home, your family holds the key too many of the solutions we all encounter at work.
Communication- The key to successful family relationships
In your continued quest for a happy work life balance, your family will play an important role in your quest for a happy work life balance.
Communication is vital to the success of any attempt towards a happy work life balance
Taking action to ensure that our communication skills are applied at home as they are at work is crucial. Communication, or lack of, is often cited as a major factor in the workplace.
Occasionally overlooked by many of us, communication at home is just as important, and many would say more important than communication at work. How we communicate with our families on a daily basis will define our work life balance, failure to address communication issue at home will have a significant impact on your work and life.
There are major differences between family life and work life; both aspects contribute to our happiness, and both have the ability to influence us in so many ways. Many of today’s workforces are under pressure to perform, to produce, to ensure bottom line results. This can easily manifest itself into stress, overwork, frustrations and occasionally anger.
If these emotions are not addressed they will spill over into the family unit, leading to arguments, conflict and disillusionment.
Emotional IntelligenceDaniel Goleman states in his work about emotional intelligence that self awareness is one of five elements required for success in business, this state of awareness can also help you in your success at home, by being aware of how your emotions affect your relationships you can then self regulate, another element of emotional intelligence.
Self regulation is the controlling element of your intelligence, self regulation allows you to control your temper, control your stress levels and become more positive and action centered.
Clearly if you are not aware of any problems, then you will not be able to solve any of those problems.
This increase in awareness provides you with the understanding needed to address the problem, which nicely brings us to communication.
Being a good communicator is something that everybody should strive towards; communication is the key to happy family relationships.
Your self awareness will ensure that you communicate effectively, but more importantly it will provide you with the most important tool in the communicator’s toolbox.
Listening Skills.
Our communication (from the receiver’s perspective) goes through certain filters.
- Language
- Meta Programmes
- Belief System/Values
- Memories
- Decisions
Our brains then process this information as outlined below.
- We receive information via one of our senses.
- Our filters then determine our internal representation of that event.
- It is our internal representation that puts us in a certain state and this in turns creates our physiology.
- The state in which we find ourselves, will determine our behaviour or reaction to what happens around us.
- The process clearly illustrates that listening is a tough skill to acquire, it is however very important to any relationship…practice listening today…see for yourself how difficult it is.
Once you become aware of how difficult listening is you will become more willing to experiment with words, and body language, providing you with valuable insights into other people and how they communicate.
Communication improvements will not unfortunately occur overnight, sadly nothing worthwhile is quickly achieved, and practice is the key.
Effective Communication
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Effective Communication Skills is a six part e-course that is designed to improve your communication skills enabling you to express yourself more clearly and to talk with confidence and assurance.
Each of the six modules includes a number of exercises and assignments that will teach you all you need to know so that you can communicate more effectively with all of the people who you come into contact with.