Handout 1: Communication Stories

Instructions: In stories #1 and #2, below, two people recall instances when they were told something positive about themselves. Read these stories, then think back on your own experience at Head Start. When did someone praise or compliment you? Why? How did this affect you? Write your own communication story in the space below.

Story #1: When I first began working here I felt young and inexperienced until one day a parent volunteer told me she thought I was older than I actually was. She had formed this opinion because of how hard I worked. This made me feel great because I finally felt I did it, I got a job I like and I'm doing well at it.

Story #2: Two of my colleagues were talking in my office. One said to the other that she never had any hesitation talking with me about any private matter in confidence. She said that they knew it wouldn't go any further than my office. For some reason I had always seen confidentiality as just part of my job. I felt good. It gave me a lot of confidence to realize that I had a reputation for being sensitive to the privacy of my co-workers.

Your Communication Story

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