Communication
What is Communication
It is process of exchanging :
- Information : A message or a detailed knowledge
- Ideas : Group of concepts
- Thoughts : Group of opinions
- Feelings & Emotions : Sentiments
The communication exchanges through:
- Speech : Face-to-face interactions,
- Signal : Use of gestures
- Writing : Written content in form of emails, reports, etc.
- Behaviour : Explained as personal appearances of the people, the way of interaction including eye contacts
Types of Communication
- Verbal : Messages which are transmitted verbally
- Oral : Using voice or words
- Writing : Using sentences and words in written form
- Non Verbal : Sending and receiving wordless messages
- Appearance : Facial expressions
- Vocal characteristics : Flow of language
Elements of Communication
- Communicator : A person who wants to communicate
- Encoding : Translation of information
- Message : Verbal or non-verbal
- Medium : The way of communication
- Decoder : Receiver's interpretation of messages
- Feedback : Response to communicator
Miscommunication
It can occur while encoding or decoding a message
Communication Barriers
- Noise in the surrounding area : The message transmitted gets disturbance on the way before reaching to the receiver. That disturbance can be termed as noise.
- Unsuccessful transmission of information : A message which is sent to a wrong and non-accessible address.
- Block-out information : The content which gets conflicted with our own thinking and assumptions.
- Value judgements : The judgements made by the receiver.
- Source credibility : The trust and faith receiver has for the communicator.
- Semantic problems : Words which may have different meanings while communication also create a barrier in the communication
- Filtering : It is a filter in communication process which converts the information into positive on the receiver's side.
- In-group language : Sometimes the highly professional experts use difficult language in group which is not understood by the juniors.
- Status differences : People working in lower positions in an organisation sometimes act as a threat in the rankings of organisation.
- Time pressures : Sometimes people do not have time to meet up for meetings or for some certain project or a group work.
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