{"id":658,"date":"2009-10-06T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hotpepper.ca\/?p=658"},"modified":"2009-10-06T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:39:22","slug":"arrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2009\/10\/06\/arrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrows; or what does this say about me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This afternoon, I sat in a teleconferenced workshop about how to communicate with finesse and tact. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if I learned anything or if I will be a better communicator; I guess time will tell. I did notice something though that made me wonder what kind of person I am.<\/p>\n

Among the pages of the workbook we had to print out prior to the workshop was a quadrant chart<\/a>. Along the top was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153open\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, along the bottom was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153closed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153direct\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153indirect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were on the left and right respectively.<\/p>\n

As the speaker continued with this part of her presentation, I realized the examples she had on the left and right quadrants were transposed: the two on the bottom and top right should have been on the left, and the two on the bottom and top left should have been on the right.<\/p>\n

Over the next 5\u00e2\u20ac\u201c10 minutes, everyone else in the room picked up on the error. Now here comes the interesting part.<\/p>\n

As far as I could tell, everyone in the room fixed it by prefixing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153direct\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and removing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153indirect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. When I looked at my chart, I had used arrows to indicate each example should be on the opposite side.<\/p>\n

So what does that say about me that I made my change graphically while everyone else in the room did it by editing words on the page?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, I sat in a teleconferenced workshop about how to communicate with finesse and tact. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if I learned anything or if I will be a better communicator; I guess time will tell. I did notice something though that made me wonder what kind of person I am. Among the pages of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4NkW7-arrows","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":599,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2009\/06\/12\/fawn\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":0},"title":"Fawn","author":"Kim Siever","date":"12 June 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortly after arriving at work this morning, I looked out the window and saw a brand new fawn, maybe a day or two old. 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