Master one-on-one communication

Build and repair relationships through communication

Improving one-on-one relationships through deeper listening and strategic sharing

• · relationship context
• · communication goal
• · feedback to give

• · supportive message
• · self-disclosure plan
• · boundary negotiation

• · ongoing relationship
• · reasonable trust established

• · Mismatched self-disclosure depth (one person shares deeply, other stays surface)
• · Defensive climate created by judgment or control

• · Transactional communication model
• · Social Penetration breadth/depth
• · Johari Window
• · Relational dialectics tension navigation
• · Gibb supportive vs defensive climate