7 elements of communication

To communicate with others is not always an easy task. There can be many barriers to effective interpersonal communication. To a certain degree we experience them every day, both in the office and at home. The following seven steps can be used to identify and better understand the problems and barriers you may encounter in communicating with others. The folowing are seven key elements of communication: Understand yourself: Are you an extrovert or an introvert? It is important to make this self-assessment as you will communicate in a certain way with others and be perceived in a certain way by those with whom you communicate.
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Listening the communication is key: Are you a good listener? The skill to listen is a very important and key element of communications . A good communicator also exercises good reflective and active listening skills.
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The ensing dimension: !eople who prefer the sensing dimension only believe the data and information that they can actually see" focusing on practicality and reality" as well as personal experience#s$. Time orientation is now #present$" they want specific facts and their thinking is a step-by-step process" and they trust experience.
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The !ntuition dimension: !eople who prefer the intuition dimension are those who see and consider information in the bigger picture. They utili%e their sixth sense to focus on facts and issues as a sort of springboard to new ideas and new possibilities. Time orientation is the future & they try new ways of doing things and give way to their imagination.
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"on#verbal communication # $ppearances: 'ur non-verbal communication is (ust as important as our verbal language. The clothes we wear" our body posture" our facial expressions" status symbols" as well as the rate of our speech" pitch and tone" are clear indications of the impression we give to others" of our thinking and attitude towards others.
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%ositive non#verbal communication: Positive non-verbal communication leaves good impressions on others and tells them that we have a trusting attitude and are willing to listen to them. This is exercised by reflective and active listening and being openminded towards others.
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"egative non#verbal communication: Negative non-verbal communication

indicates a lack of trust" or of interest" and)or discomfort in communicating with others. *egative non-verbal language shows a lack of courtesy and leaves negative impressions on others. This is typically shown by defensiveness" frustration" boredom and disbelief. &e must all try and learn to 'manage our non#verbal language(. To do so, we should focus on our 'gestures( )our hands, arms and legs communicate how receptive we are to others*+ our 'mannerisms( )these communicate how interested we are in what,s going on and our own comfort level with a situation*+ our 'boundaries( )we establish these in different ways and they tell others how open and receptive we are towards them*. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isnt being said. %eter -. .rucker.

Communication (from Latin commnicre, meaning "to share" [1]) is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior. t is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more living creatures. !ne "efinition of communication is #any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person$s nee"s, "esires, perceptions, %nowle"ge, or affective states. &ommunication may be intentional or unintentional, may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may ta%e linguistic or non'linguistic forms, an" may occur through spo%en or other mo"es.( [)] &ommunication re*uires a sen"er, a message, an" a recipient, although the receiver "oesn$t have to be present or aware of the sen"er$s intent to communicate at the time of communication+ thus communication can occur across vast "istances in time an" space. &ommunication re*uires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. ,he communication process is complete once the receiver un"erstan"s the sen"er$s message.[citation needed] &ommunicating with others involves three primary steps- .,hought- /irst, information exists in the min" of the sen"er. ,his can be a concept, i"ea, information, or feelings. .0nco"ing- 1ext, a message is sent to a receiver in wor"s or other symbols. .2eco"ing- Lastly, the receiver translates the wor"s

or symbols into a concept or information that a person can un"erstan". Speech is the vocali3e" form of human communication. t is base" upon the syntactic combination of lexicals an" names that are "rawn from very large (usually about 14,444 "ifferent wor"s) vocabularies. 0ach spo%en wor" is create" out of the phonetic combination of a limite" set of vowel an" consonant speech soun" units. ,hese vocabularies, the syntax which structures them, an" their set of speech soun" units "iffer, creating the existence of many thousan"s of "ifferent types of mutually unintelligible human languages. 5ost human spea%ers are able to communicate in two or more of them, [1] hence being polyglots. ,he vocal abilities that enable humans to pro"uce speech also provi"e humans with the ability to sing. 6 gestural form of human communication exists for the "eaf in the form of sign language. 7peech in some cultures has become the basis of a written language, often one that "iffers in its vocabulary, syntax an" phonetics from its associate" spo%en one, a situation calle" "iglossia. 7peech in a""ition to its use in communication, it is suggeste" by some psychologists such as 8ygots%y is internally use" by mental processes to enhance an" organi3e cognition in the form of an interior monologue. 7peech is researche" in terms of the speech pro"uction an" speech perception of the soun"s use" in vocal language. !ther research topics concern speech repetition, the ability to map hear" spo%en wor"s into the vocali3ations nee"e" to recreate" that plays a %ey role in the vocabulary expansion in chil"ren an" speech errors. 7everal aca"emic "isciplines stu"y these inclu"ing acoustics, psychology,speech pathology, linguistics, cognitive science, communication stu"ies, otolaryngology an" computer science. 6nother area of research is how the human brain in its "ifferent areas such as the 9roca$s area an" :ernic%e$s area un"erlies speech. t is controversial how far human speech is uni*ue in that other animals also

communicate with vocali3ations. :hile none in the wil" have compatibly large vocabularies, research upon the nonverbal abilities of language traine" apes such as :ashoe an" ;an3i raises the possibility that they might have these capabilities. ,he origins of speech are un%nown an" sub<ect to much "ebate an" speculation.