Effective Communicator
     When I think of a person in my life that I feel is a wonderful communicator, I think of our Human Resources consultant at work.  I find that I think of someone that is better at certain things than I am.  This woman is always fair.  She is always calm.  She listens well and waits until someone is done talking.  She even jots things down as you speak, so that she can remember to come back to things that you have said after you are done talking.  She is kind and she remains objective.  Most of all, she can speak very calmly and never lets emotions overtake her.  I think that this is what I struggle with the most.  I often become very emotional and this causes me to behave in ways that make me completely ineffective as a communicator.  Once I become emotional, I have lost any ground that I might have had to be able to communicate effectively.  This woman that I speak of never becomes emotional.  She is kind, calm, fair, unbiased, professional, unemotional, and listens very well.  These things are all things that I feel make her a very effective communicator and someone that I would like to be able to model when I need to communicate with others.