Depending on who you ask, the answers may vary. Let's start with the most basic definition of communication. Straight from Wikipedia:
Communication is a process of transferring information from one entity to another.
Your next question may be: What is an entity? For now, let's call the entity that transfers information Sender and the entity that receives the information Receiver.
The sender and the receiver can be people, animals or devices. It can also include other beings, but since this website is about communication in the workplace, we'll leave animals, dead people and angels out of this conversation.
The information can be:Words, gestures, drawings, paintings, songs, music.
The means can be: speeches, emails, blogs, forums, text messages, voice messages, poems, essays, books, newspapers, ads, articles, and practically anything you can speak through, write on or draw on.
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Definition of Interpersonal Communication
ReplyDeleteInformation exchanged between people via words, gestures/signs and body language. The entities (sender and receiver) can be:
• One sender to one receiver
• One sender to many receivers
• Many senders to one receiver
• Many senders to many receivers.
So what is communication? Have you ever listened to a very polished, confident speaker and not understood a word of what they were saying?
ReplyDeleteA common mistake people make is to focus on the delivery of information, rather than how it is received. Communication has to be two-way.
You only communicate when the message you send out has been received and sent back to you, so you know that it has been properly understood.