Being a Leader Interaction 1

This week I employed the chapter 9 principle of HTWFIP entitled "making people glad to do what you want." I am currently enrolled in the class Speech 210- interpersonal communication. This class is infuriating. There is absolutely no purpose to the things we do in class and the professor is impossible to talk to. Attendance is worth half of our grade in this course. Unfortunately, the spring is also softball season and I miss a significant amount of classes through the course of the semester. In addition to this damaging my grade I received a very low score on a paper I had recently submitted. I picked the paper up during her office hours and this gave me a chance to speak with her one on one. I received the grade and was very irritated however I analyzed the situation and used principle 9. I began by expressing my desire to do well in the class and how important interpersonal relationships are in every day life. As she is the professor of the class, she strongly agreed with this statement. (This is actually the yes yes approach.) She nodded her head as if to say yes, this is important, and yes, I also want you to do well. I then led into my poor grade and said this paper was not a true reflection of my work. How would I be able to better express myself in the context of this assignment? My goal was to be able to somehow add some points onto my paper. She told me that my personal life was missing from the paper (god-forbid I did not talk about my personal life during a reading response-I simply responded to the reading, how foolish.) To better express myself I could plan a presentation (for the entire class) about how the reading relates to my personal life. Well I got what I wanted, the SPCH 210 class will soon be fortunate enough to listen to an entire presentation about how poor interpersonal communication physically harms the body. Somehow it turned out to be a good thing that my sister currently has four ulcers.