How to Meditate your emotional intelligence


Task 1: Meditate on your emotional intelligence
Collecting content for, plan, write and transmit reflection on your own emotional intelligence in accordance with the quality specifications:
      1.      Use at least one tool or method that is appropriate to identify your own emotional strengths and weaknesses. Options include, for example:
                          a.       Personal SWOT Analysis
Strength: Always optimistic, determined and tenacious
Weakness: Stubborn and careless
Opportunity: Having good English language skills in spoken and written
Threat: Job vacancies can be filled by all the majors

                          b.       360 ° evaluation workplace
the method of assessment 3600 they met with men to discuss the feedback they received from many quarters. Of course, the parties asked for input is limited to people who are believed to be able to describe the performance of the employee.

                          c.       Emotional intelligence test online
emotional intelligence is the ability to motivate yourself and endure frustration, relying on impulse and not excessive in pleasure, set the mood and keep free from stress, do not lose the ability to think, empathize, and Pray .However, Cooper interpret it as an ability to feel, understand effectively, applying power and emotional sensitivity as a source of energy, information, connections and influence human
note: Keep the evidence (eg, spreadsheets and screenshots) to submit to your reflection as evidence.
      2.      Identify at least three cases in which you have to feel stressed or experiencing a state of negative emotions in the workplace. For each example, consider the context of the right, the cause and response.

Excessive workload: Busy from morning until time to leave the office in the afternoon. There is no freedom for work. This type of work is high demand, low control so as to make the psychological tension.

Frustration: Working furiously, but never received proper remuneration. Sweat already incurred is not balanced with the salary brought home. Consequently so stressful

Consumers who prosecutor: you deal with annoying customers while you are required to always face them with a polite, quiet and friendly.

      3.      Identify at least two causes or triggers of your personal emotions in the workplace. Identify how you can use triggers such awareness to control your responses and achieve positive results, especially with respect to your impact on others and their work performance.

·      The lack of a sense of brotherhood: While working under the same roof, an employee may did not have friends who are really sincere. This caused a lack of a sense of brotherhood that could lead to conflict in the workplace, for example hostility among employees.

·      Poor communication: Conflict in the workplace, hereinafter the communication that occurs with every bad employee. As it is known that the relationship between yourself and the other person can not be separated with the name of communication. If communication is happening not optimal or even tend to be bad, it could be the cause of misunderstandings that lead to conflict in the workplace.


      4.      Identifying at least one instance of behavioral modeling work shows emotion management as an example for others to follow.
Workers in this role rarely have a clue about the management of emotions that are explicitly outlined in the employee handbook or during training sessions. However, these people clearly do deal with a lot of emotion on the job-good variety of "native" and "successful". For example, a nurse must address the genuine emotions (eg, sadness had a patient die) and express the emotions that he can not really feel (for example, dealing with "difficult" patients by cheery or professional).
      5.      Identify three actions you will take to improve your own emotional intelligence on the basis of self-reflection or feedback from others. Reflecting the principles of emotional intelligence and strategy to justify your actions proposed.
·      Recognizing Emotions Perceived: Recognizing emotions themselves is very important, because then you will be able to know how the real feelings and recognize the characters themselves. Identifying what is actually perceived helps to capture messages sent by yourself and also to know what would you feel at the time - a certain time.

·      Viewing Changes Emotions: If you feel often experience feelings that go up and down like a roller coaster then it can be minimized if you learn to observe yourself. Any change in emotions, mood, and behavior can be observed myself to learn to overcome the various problems that may arise. You also can find out easily what factors make you feel it.

·      Managing Emotions: Basically, emotion is a way for people to perform an action that will address the causes of the emergence of feelings. The ability to manage emotions themselves will give a person certain advantages in dealing with life. Being a person who has a very good self-control that can control the situation around smoothly, as he control his emotions rather than being controlled by emotion.


      6.      Send your reflection written and supporting documentation in accordance with the specifications below.

There are no perfect people in this world. Therefore closed employees like Pat should not be shunned. Precisely embraced slowly can open and want to socialize. Very rarely strong employees in the field of sales and marketing because it is an asset in the company.


Task 2: Respond to emotional case studies of intelligence

Appendix 1: Case Study - Australia Hardware

Hardware Australia (business simulation) is hardware and household appliances large and expanding retailer with approximately 140 stores located throughout Australia. In a vision statement, Australia Hardware stated that they intend to 'leading hardware and home improvement market in Australia within five years. In order to realize this vision, the organization intends to:
      Build market share by focusing on the customer experience
      Controlling direct and indirect costs through efficient internal processes
      Building a reputation as the company's hardware Australia socially and environmentally
This is an organization-wide strategic direction implemented from senior management down, in the form of performance expectations for managers and employees at every level of the organization.
Australia Hardware realize that business success lies in its people. For this reason, the organization asserts that managers build effective teams to respond to the needs of employees. The needs include safety and security, fairness, flexibility, skills development and self-actualization. Satisfying these needs will allow employees to focus more effectively on work tasks and customer needs. In addition, Australia Hardware encourages managers to take a flexible approach to meet performance targets and set goals in close cooperation with the employees.
To implement the strategic direction and promote Australian values ​​Hardware, managers are expected to lead employees with, first of all, modelling positive behaviours and attributes - those which they expect their employees to emulate and embody it in turn. To lead and inspire people, managers must show a keen emotional awareness and promote positive team-building behaviour on others.
You are the new General Manager Operations of Wollongong, NSW, store and you're ready for a challenge. You are directly responsible for managing the common sales and checkout staff, administrative staff and human resources personnel. You report to the Store Manager, who is responsible for all areas of responsibility stores (Timber, Plumbing & Electrical, Gardens and housewares department and general surgery).
For more background of this assessment task, the simulation Australia Hardware business information, including business and operational plans, financial information, and policies and procedures, can be found online at: <http://simulations.ibsa.org.au/>.


Appendix 2: Questions

For questions based on the following case studies, put yourself in the position of general manager of new operations and answer questions accordingly.

Question 1

Store Manager you have had a stressful months. This is the end of the financial year and sales revenue in Wood and Plumbing and Electrical Department dropped on the target, almost certainly due to increasing competition from smaller rivals for business trade contractors.
Just this week, the Store Manager held a meeting in which he yelled at all the department manager and told you and them to work out a way to increase revenue. Obviously, the explosion does not make sense as a department manager, such a big business, do not have the ability to raise a lot of revenue directly. Marketing and distribution innovations that could have an effect primarily the responsibility of the central office. Woollongong store inability to counter the threat of small, more agile trade suppliers has been the main reason for the income deficit.
Of course, the atmosphere around the shop and in the management team are quiet and some managers had discussed leaving the organization; Other managers have responded by encouraging the sale of unreasonable demands to their sales staff.
You now feel the pressure to do something: to act contrary to planning the budget and cut costs or to increase the pressure on others to offset the poor performance in other areas.
In your opinion, leadership behaviour is disrespectful to all managers, creating unnecessary worries about job security and undermine trust. Has no flow-on effect of negative clear down through the shop, which is now affecting people at a lower level. You justifiably angry at the manager's behaviour and blamed him for making a bad situation worse by poor leadership and poor emotional awareness.
In a written response to the above scenario:
      Explain what you think is the best way to respond to the behavior of the Store Manager. Explain how you will model the behavior of positive leadership.

Leadership Bureaucracy

This leadership style is usually applied in a company and will be effective if every employee to follow every workflow procedures and perform routine daily responsibilities.
Still in this leadership style is no space for members to innovate because everything is arranged in an order of the procedures to be followed by each layer.

      Explain the principles of emotional intelligence that the Store Manager does not show.
Stress tolerance The ability to face unpleasant events and stressful situations without falling apart by actively and positively coping with stress. This capability is based on:
·         The ability to select action to deal with stress (being resourceful and effective, able to find the right way, know what to do and how to do it);
·         An optimistic attitude to face new experiences and changes in general and optimistic in his own ability to overcome the problems faced; and
·         The feeling that we can control or influence the stressful situation to remain calm and in control. Stress tolerance has a myriad of appropriate responses to stressful situations
      Explain how the Store Manager to act and communicated.
Store managers had to collect the staff to do the meeting so that decisions agreed by all parties and none were harmed.
      Store Manager describes the relationship between behaviour and moral shop. Explain what the behavioural effects Store Manager can perform stores.
The manager and the management team must always be a tool that is able to communicate well and empathetic, to be able to manage the emotions of employees, and also educate employees emotion in the face of the realities of work and private life, which may be unjust by employees. Enlightenment continuously, and generate confidence in the hope seen through the vision of light, would be an effective way to evoke positive emotions employee. Let the frustration of employees in negative emotions will only become unprofitable in order to achieve the company's performance. The manager must have an adequate positive emotions to positive emotions can motivate employees, so that employees can work more effectively to contribute and do the work according to the company's expectations.

Question 2

An employee has come to you with problems involving co-workers. In general, the sales team is sufficiently cohesive team, but now a relatively new member of the team is rubbing people the wrong way.
He never participated in beverages or other social events outside of work. He never involve itself in normal, everyday conversation about family, movies or popular culture. The team began to form opinions that he was too aloof and not like the other team members and quite angry about it. In the sales team, it's really important to be able to feel a connection with the other team members. When you feel this relationship, you know you can rely on them - to relieve you when you need some private time, feeding you the information you need and help you serve customers.
You happen to know that a member of the sales staff in question is a valuable member of staff with good customer skills and knowledge products; However, as a conservative, foreign-born women, religion, she has trouble relating to other team members. Many team-bonding opportunities involve activities that he was not able to participate in, such as out-of-hours party, alcohol or confusing cultural references. He is in a bind because he wanted to be accepted as a member of the team, but when all the way to a team-bonding closed, he felt stigma and perceived by others as people who are not friendly.
In a written response to the above scenario:
      Provide at least two examples of possible misinterpretation of expression or behaviour that might arise in the context of a diverse workforce.
Misconception that allows drinking alcohol while culturally not justified and those who never participated in social events make this relationship becomes awkward
      Explain how you would explain to employees who come to you with a problem of how cultural expressions could be misunderstood - and has been in this case.
Only action which are instinctive course that is not a culture, but a very small percentage of such behaviour. The cultural study due to lack of action in the form of culture accustomed to the way of learning. There are some cultural learning process which is a process of internalization, socialization and enculturation

      Discuss how the team could improve their awareness of cultural expression and promoting effective communication to avoid misunderstanding in order to resolve differences.
Determine the relevant motivation in a culture, characteristic of the behaviour, the field of cultural values ​​which are relevant to this product and its characteristic shape in making decisions.

Questions 3

An employee that you manage really gets on your nerves.
This does not mean that their performance is all that bad. For example, employees always do what is required of them in terms of professionalism, administrative tasks and dress appropriately. They meet sales targets and customer service rank them on their performance scorecard either.
On the other hand, employees do not really respond to the team's training sessions and team-building that you start and that has proven very effective in maintaining team spirit and driving others to succeed. Other team members seem to thrive on, and draw energy from, this team sessions, while these employees, if any, appeared emotionally drained from interacting with their peers. They say that they prefer to work individually and that all things strangle team. You're really trying hard to build a culture of team work and it feels like a slap in the face.
In a written response to the above scenario:
      Explain how you will set aside your own emotions to focus on and identify how employees (probably) tasted. Referring to the relevant principles of emotional intelligence.
As a leader, to be able to keep any feelings of others while you are among them. Emotions owned must be managed as well - good, that what is spoken is not to hurt the other person. Everyone does have different emotions and be able to control your emotions when dealing with other people, but a leader must possess more than it
      Explain how knowledge, for example, style, personality type or style of learning communication, might be able to help you connect with and understand employees better and adapt your response.
Along with the development of the times, communication is also progressing one of them by electronic mail media are used as a way to interact with fellow employees or client. Yes, although it is very practical way, but this can cause a problem if the employees are not proficient in either letter. Of course it will cause great problems for the delivery of information difficult to understand by readers and are often misunderstood.

      Explain how you can use your awareness of your own feelings and employees to adapt your response so that the following requirements are satisfied:
     Your needs (Emotional need, need for teamwork, must meet the standards of performance): Develop effective communication skills. The foundation of a relationship is communication. Your communication with others to bring positive results, such as self-disclosure, assertiveness, a dynamic process hearing, criticism, problem solving and team communication.

     employee needs (Emotional need, need to develop and perform in a team environment)
Employees who continue to see the conditions and manage their own emotions in the company, the employee may try to not feel angry or frustrated when events happen to him. Employees can try to make another motivation on weekdays. Surpass self-management behaviours desired emotional displays in certain situations on employees within the company. the ability to manage emotions in oneself, includes the generation or suppress emotions on employees within the company
Referring to the relevant principles of emotional intelligence where applicable.

question 4

This is the end of the financial year and sales revenue in Wollongong store in Wood and Plumbing and Electrical Department dropped on the target. This problem is almost certainly due to increasing competition from smaller rivals for business trade contractors; but some action must be taken by management to reduce the effects of this problem in the store as a whole.
As a result of managerial discussions, it has been decided that some employees will increase performance targets where capacity exists and some programs, such as training, will be delayed. These measures will have the effect of potentially increasing revenue and reducing costs to offset poor overall performance than expected in stores Wollongong.
Each manager will have the responsibility to implement the decisions of this group in a particular area of ​​their responsibility. It will be important to consider the emotional impact on the staff and any impacts on health, safety and well-being as well as their impact on performance and achievement of organizational goals.
In a written response to the above scenario:
      Describing the relationship between people emotionally effective and achieving business objectives.
     Learn from mistakes. When we see that emotions do not fit happens to us, then we need to change it
     Learn to distinguish things around us that can influence and that does not give effect so as to obtain a better inner harmony
     Learning to take responsibility for any action to be able to control emotions

      Explain how to remember the emotional impact of decision-making can lead to better decision-making (in connection with business goals).
Things that are tangible and intangible, emotional and rational needs to be taken into account in decision-making;
Each decision will have to be used as material to achieve organizational goals;
Every decision must not orient toward personal interests, pay attention to the interests of others;

      Explain what the decision-making process that takes into account the possibility of an emotional impact could account looks like. The decision in this regard include, for example, set specific performance targets, or choose what can be delayed program.
Time taken to make a decision relatively short. For Those problems that limited his influence, decision-making will provide satisfaction in general.
Decision-making capacity of the decision makers is very instrumental, and it needs to be put to good use
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      Identify policies, procedures or laws that need to be adhered to in order to meet internal and external requirements associated with managing emotions in the workplace.
The policies involved is Emotional Intelligence -phrase increasingly familiar in psychology and education repertoire now ranging widely discussed also in the business circle.
Behind emotional intelligence in the workplace is nothing but belief in the existence of the employees treat emotions as valuable data in directing the situation, confirms that according to research, people who have positive emotions tend to perform better in the workplace.
It is said, positive people who were cognitively proceed more effectively. When in a positive mood, people will be more open to absorbing information and could handle it effectively. We do not need to change the colleagues work together are negative, but simply refuses to "catch" their negative mood.
      Explain how legislation OHS / WHS relevant to how managers implement business decisions.
Because it has something to do with the conditions and factors that influence or can affect the health and safety of employees or visitors or other people in the work location. Even the Organization can be exposed to legal requirements regarding the health and safety of people outside the direct workplace, or who are affected and activities at work.

Task 3: coach emotional intelligence

Appendix 1: Scenario Role-play

Background

Hardware Australia (business simulation) is hardware and household appliances large and expanding retailer with approximately 140 stores located throughout Australia. In a vision statement, Australia Hardware stated that they intend to 'leading hardware and home improvement market in Australia within five years. In order to realize this vision, the organization intends to:
      Build market share by focusing on the customer experience
      Controlling direct and indirect costs through efficient internal processes
      Building a reputation as the company's hardware Australia socially and environmentally
This is an organization-wide strategic direction implemented from senior management down, in the form of performance expectations for managers and employees at every level of the organization.
Australia Hardware realise that business success lies in its people. For this reason, the organization asserts that managers build effective teams to respond to the needs of employees. The needs include safety and security, fairness, flexibility, skills development and self-actualization. Satisfying these needs will allow employees to focus more effectively on work tasks and customer needs. In addition, Australia Hardware encourages managers to take a flexible approach to meet performance targets and set goals in close cooperation with the employees.
To implement the strategic direction and promote Australian values ​​Hardware, managers are expected to lead employees with, first of all, modelling positive behaviours and attributes - those which they expect their employees to emulate and embody it in turn. To lead and inspire people, managers must show a keen emotional awareness and promote positive team-building behaviour on others.
You are the new General Manager Operations of Wollongong, NSW, store and you're ready for a challenge. You are directly responsible for managing the common sales and checkout staff, administrative staff and human resources personnel. You report to the Store Manager, who is responsible for all areas of responsibility stores (Timber, Plumbing & Electrical, Gardens and housewares department and general surgery).
For more background of this assessment task, the simulation Australia Hardware business information, including business and operational plans, financial information, and policies and procedures, can be found online at: <http://simulations.ibsa.org.au/>.

Scenario

You have performance problems with Pat, one of your star employees on the sales team. Although Pat consistently achieve sales targets and have a rating of excellent customer service, recently Pat has been a drag on overall team performance. The reason is that the team has not been able to rely on Pat's expertise when needed to help serve customers.
Pat had a cold once and busy with something. This situation seriously affects the ability of other employees to focus on customers effectively and, perhaps worse, negatively affecting the working climate. Pat has been looked as a model employee and informal leaders. Now, new employees begin to feel that they personally disliked and not respected; that teamwork not the values ​​promoted by the team; that they can not rely on the senior staff of experts; and that, effectively, their own. This situation can only hurt the overall performance of the sales team into the future - as well as performance on other metrics.
Part of the problem could be that you are not pro-active in understanding Pat motivation and strength and provide leadership development opportunities. Perhaps you have taken for granted Pat. It's quite easy to do, if you have another, perhaps more serious, personnel issues to handle. You know that Pat could use some emotional intelligence training in the areas of weakness, such as self-awareness and empathy. You also know that Pat, who are committed and goal-driven, has the potential to become future leaders in the organization.

Balanced Scorecard

Australia Hardware using the balanced scorecard system to integrate the performance of the entire organization and align the work of each employee with the strategic objectives of the business. Pat has a personal balanced scorecard following information. Underperformance is thick.
Pat balanced scorecard
Perspective
KPI
Target
result
finance
Revenue generated by the sale of personal
$ 15,000
$ 16,000
The revenue generated through the sales assists
$ 15,000
$ 10,000
customer focus
360 ° evauation:


      evaluation managers, rating / 10
8/10 = 80%
80%
      customer evaluation, rating / 10
8/10 = 80%
90%
      peer evaluation, rating / 10
8/10 = 80%
50%
internal process
Completion of the sale and the related expense reporting
completion
completion
employee
hours of training / personal development
100 hours
7 hours
Evaluation of 360 °:


      Managers and colleagues combined evaluation, rating / 10
(Contributions to the climate of high performance and employee satisfaction)
8/10 = 80%
60%

Task

You need to intervene effectively to solve this performance problem. You will need to plan and conduct training sessions with Pat to get both Pat and the performance of the team back on track.
In session make sure you:
      Introduce a positive session to establish why this happened and ask coaching Pat to enter:
     Ask Pat to describe the performance of their own, personal situation, the barriers to, the feeling of performance and job satisfaction.
     Emotional intelligence model through empathy and listening skills.
      Build awareness of emotional intelligence Pat weaknesses and strengths - make sure you focus on the strengths Pat.
      Using the GROW models, establish goals and performance gaps Pat (reality):
     Build awareness Pat performance deficiencies and how emotional self-awareness and empathy can help identify personal barriers to success with Pat purpose, peer relationships and helps the entire team and organization to succeed.
      Continuing with the model GROW, build and discuss a sensible option:
     Allow Pat to give most of the options to achieve personal goals, professional and team.
      Continuing with the model GROW, building Pat willingness to do (and increase EI) in ways that are scalable and can be observed:
     Building a strong commitment from Pat to improve performance and help build a better team climate.

Role Play Strategies.
William stronghold here acts as HRD manager who wants to open Pat's closed nature and find it difficult to cooperate with others even though the results of his sales have always been stellar and seem unmatched. Here William is written as letter A and Pat is written as Letter B.
A: "Pat, how are you?"
B: "Yes boss. What is wrong?"
A: "I heard your sales are the best? Congratulations".
B: "Yes, thank you. I don't like being praised, O Lord Manager
A: "but I heard your co-worker doesn't like you"
B: "I don't need their attention, Mr. Manager"
A: "Why, don't be so. It's not funny if you just work alone "
B: "I work alone is fun"
A: "at least try to be friends. It's nice to hear other people's suggestions "
B: "before me, that's not what I need"
A: "Will you insist like that forever in this company?"
B: "maybe, and it seems like that".
A: "You are really good at selling. But friendship with co workers should not be released ”
B: "I just tried to achieve sales targets. Only that"
A: "Your obstacles are difficult to socialize with people. But I'm sure you can change.
B: "if yes, would you give me an award, O Mr. Manager, William?"
A: "of course because you are an asset to our company"
B: "Thank you very much Mr. William"

Appendix 2: Training Planner (GROW model)

construction phase
Activities / questions
introduction
Summarizing the reasons for a training session from your perspective:
      improve the skills of these employees in accordance with the change, progress and development of existing technologies
      improve the quality of work that is every company wants to have employees who have the ability and quality performance
Pat ask for input, to describe his own perspective:
      Cold and too busy in work
      Difficult to work together in teams
Aim
Asking questions to build understanding Pat performance expectations, personal goals and aspirations:
      To complete a task or job one must have a degree of willingness and a certain level of ability.
      Performance refers to the level of success in implementing the tasks and the ability to achieve the goals set.
Reality
Asking questions to build an understanding of:
      real gap between performance and expectation / performance goals Pat:
·      The gap is due to lack of precise translation company management perceptions on the expectations of the company's customers in the form of service quality benchmarks.
·      The gap created by the company was not able to fulfil his promise join-communicated externally through various forms of promotion.
      potential barriers to achievement, such as Pat EI skills and personal situation or work:
·      Weak capacity. Behavioural traits: Has an unsolved problem to solve using techniques that are less precise and unsystematic approach
·      Personal value is not clear. Behavioural traits: No question the value, acts differently on shared values, take a passive attitude toward life.
Options / opportunities
Asking questions to help Pat generate options or opportunities to help achieve the goal and close the performance gap:
      How to provide opportunities for employees to discuss the wishes and aspirations?
      Is there a way checking the implementation and development plan in accordance with the training needs?
Will
Asking questions to build the willingness and Pat agreed to concrete measures to improve the performance of time-bound:
      How do I keep the office performance is maintained or even increased with gratitude. Such an attitude of gratitude helps you focus on the positive value of a job or a career?

      Does it ever make room for the failure to defeat you?





Appendix 3: Reflection

Consider your own performance as a mentor and respond honestly to the following questions.
You are expected to provide an opportunity for Pat to express their thoughts and feelings.
How do you do it? Convince him to open his heart to avoid being personally closed

What can you do better? I'm sure because by being with an open heart hearts hidden all problems can be solved.


You are expected to help Pat to understand the effects of their behaviour and emotions in others.
How do you do? Make Pat understand the feelings of others who were upset by making Pat understanding. Although Pat was always being cold and busy about something.


What can you do better? Of course as with any other person understood little resentment or anger at Pat it will create better communication goes.


You are expected to manage their own emotions propel Pat.
How do you do it? Told him to remember the negative impact if it is not able to control emotions in yourself.


What can you do better? Emotions overflowing concerned usually makes dark eye. If it is so, he will hit, scream, curse, or damage the goods there. Well, to avoid this situation, keep in mind the negative impact that would occur if you can not resist the emotions.





You are expected to drive Pat to develop emotional intelligence and build productive relationships.
  • How do you do it?  Take four components of emotional intelligence and competence related as listed above, and the analysis of their own behaviour and its impact on others. Get the answers to the following questions: 'How well I in self-management?', 'How self-conscious I?', 'How are aware of the social me?' and 'How effective social  Skill me?'
  • Ask for input from bosses, peers, subordinates and clients. Try to find out what impression you make on them and where they think you can do it better.
  • Focus on those aspects of your behaviour that where, first, there is a room for improvement, and secondly, the possibility to be able to change it very high. Do not expect immediate results.

What can you do better? Certainly for developing emotional intelligence requires a process related to the nature especially Pat who tend to be cold. Will certainly take a long time to change.


You are expected to encourage positive emotional climate in the workplace.
How do you do it? Make Work environment that provides security, comfort, cleanliness and completeness of infrastructure.


What can you do better? With a perfect working environment then it will automatically give a positive climate in the workplace


You are expected to use force to get both Pat and performance of the team back on track.
How do you do it? Make more expressing Pat expression was not only being cold and indifferent


What can you do better? Is likely to occur because of the warmth of communication occurs when based on mutual openness.





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