Unit Interpersonal Skills

Lead in

What do you think of the following saying:

" When you GIVE more than you TAKE, you'll always RECEIVE more than you GIVE."

1.Read the text Interpersonal skills

What are interpersonal skills? They are characteristic traits that a person uses to interact with other people. They include body language such as behavior and posture and a knack for listening and understanding. Communicating with a constructive and respectful tone of voice is a critical interpersonal skill to making a favorable impression.

What are interpersonal skills? They are the means of how we interact and respond with others throughout our day, using what some refer to as communication or people skills. Mastering the use of interpersonal skills can influence both professional and personal lives for some people.

Accomplished users of interpersonal skills, use them to achieve certain effects or results in formal and informal social circumstances. For business environments these skills may increase productivity with an encouraging approach of communications, which should be clearly administered with specific objectives. In personal settings where emotions are generally involved, the tone used can manage and control the sensitivity that is usually involved with feelings.

Interpersonal skills are also sometimes referred to as soft skills or people skills.

2.Interview with a psychologist

How to Tell if a Relationship Is Good for You

What do these words mean to you? What role do they play in your relationships with people? Discuss in pairs and share your opinions with the group.

Empathy boundaries one’s own space

Insert the words into the dialog

Q: What makes a relationship healthy?

A: When you are connecting with someone who brings out the best in you and the relationship is not based on “What can you do for me?” Both people share ideas, feelings, respect. Both people listen and talk, and they do things to help each other.

____, really trying to feel what the other person feels, is a huge piece of a healthy relationship. It’s not trying to fix their problem, but just listening to them.

Often adults tell young people what they should be feeling or how to fix the problem. Everybody, including teens, needs someone to hear what they are feeling, because it helps us figure it out. We make better decisions when we know what we are feeling.

In a healthy relationship, you can be your real self. You don’t have to act like somebody else to be loved or accepted.

Q: How do you find your real self?

A: By thinking and talking about your own feelings. If you act from your own feelings, you’ll be true to your own values. You’re not worrying about what other people want you to be or what the media tells you to be.

Q: What questions should you ask yourself about a new relationship?

A: Here are a few:

Is the person able to give and take?

Do you feel valued for who you are rather than what you can do for them?

Can you be yourself?

Can the other person?

Can you have _____? Do they respect them? Can you say, “I can’t talk now, I have to do my homework(assighnment)/to do stay at home,” or, “I’m not comfortable telling you that yet”? Or, “I don’t want to have sex yet”? You deserve ______: intellectual space, sexual space, actual physical space, emotional space. And stick to it! Boundaries only work when we enforce them and follow through.

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