The Concept of Communication Climates

Communication is a two-way process that takes practice and time to be fully effective and is very important in every aspect our personal and professional lives. We communicate every day of our lives both verbally or nonverbally. The process of verbal communication is the exchanging information by transmitting an idea, send that idea, receive feedback, understand the idea and the feedback and provide feedback to the person who sent the message. The main components of communication are context, encoder, message, medium, decoder, and feedback. The context could be social, chronological, cultural, or physical. The individual sending the message will

Communication is defined as ‘a transactional process involving participants who occupy different but overlapping environments and create relationships through the exchange of messages, many of which are affected by external, psychological and physiological noise’ (Adler, R and Proctor, R. 2010). Communication doesn’t just mean verbal communication, as non-verbal communication is just as, if not, more important as verbal communication. According to Albert Mehrabian, only 7% of a message is communicated through verbal communication, 38% is communicated through your tone of

People from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in different ways because every family has their own way of communicating together. For example: some children might hear or speak more than one language at home or they could hear others swearing. This can affect children’s communication and how they communicate as adults.

In order to communicate individuals have to go through a process with another person. This process is called the communication cycle because the

It is often said that all good things come to an end. Relationships come and go, and some mean more than others. In fact, there was even a relationship model developed by a communication researcher by the name of Mark Knapp. In his model, he goes through what seems to be presented as a smooth step transition from each stage in which a relationship eventually evolves into. As I studied this up then down ladder model, I began to realize that I ought to build up some strong calf muscles, because my relationship sure has climbed up and down a few flights of stairs. Mark Knapp believes that relationships go through multiple stages, the uphill stages being initiation, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, then relational maintenance. On the flip side, Knapp believes the descending stages to be differentiating, circumscribing, avoiding, and eventually, termination.

What I feel were the most important topics of Chapter 7 that I had learned were the defensive and supportive communication climates. As I am naturally a defensive person, these defensive and supportive climates allowed myself to evaluate how I perceive information as well as how to properly communicate controversial messages. I feel as I had learned mostly how to respond non defensively when I am being evaluated. For example, I would naturally give an excuse if I am doing poorly, however, I must take in the evaluation and work towards improving myself in that area. When I receive constructive criticism that is supportive, it would motivate myself to try harder to improve myself in that area. Also, in regards to evaluating a peer, to support

For my eleventh paper, I would like to talk about communication climate. Communication climate refers to how people treat each other in relationships. The climates can differ depending on the communication between two people in a relationship. When I think of communication climates in relationship it makes me think of my first relationship.

After resolution of a conflict, it is recommended that parties maintain a good attitude between them. What is even more, if the parties are to continue working in the same setting; it is recommended that the environment remains positive. A good practice to maintain a pleasurable atmosphere between the parties is by using positive language: optimistic way of speaking that focuses on what should be done rather than criticism and/or demeaning others. The positive language can be promoted by reframing, relational statements, and specific behavioral statements.

Having a supportive style of communication impacts my attitude with my patients. I try to be patient and listen carefully. My low dominance allows me to be more relaxed and easy going. While all four communication styles have positive and negative aspects, I believe having a mix of styles and being able to adapt to different people and different situations is most beneficial. According to Reece (2014), some decisions are influenced by emotions, while other choices can be closely correlated to previous life experiences that, both positively and negatively, affect the

The way a person can express tone of connection to another person through messages that can be seen or heard, which are non-verbal and verbal respectively is what called communication climate. It entails how individuals think about one another in their day to day life and therefore a climate is not associated to a given situation in the way people may feel about one another thus making it possible in a relationship to have communication climate altered with at any time. It is obvious that relationships between individual differ depending on their culture or any other factor. If I take an example of Japanese cannot tell anybody about how they feel unless you are very close to them is different from those who come from western countries because they are free to expose what they have in mind regardless of their relationship to the other person (Seki, Matsumoto, & Imahori, 2002).

Communication with others includes giving or accepting a message by means of a medium and envisioning the reaction of the other. At the point when two individuals know each other, every individual is more sure of the answer. Otherwise, a condition of anxious reckoning is run of the

I am going to choose option 2. A communication perspective matters because if we own it, we will have the power and knowledge to explain things happen around us. I agree with those tactics for social actions mentioned in chapter 12 that can help us know communication perspective in a deeper level. The first one is advocacy through reflectivity. Embracing reflexivity make people think prior to them executing behaviors. Like the reason we have certain respond towards certain situation, the cause of us to behave in that way, and so forth. According to Warren & Fasset, 2015, “By being reflexive and asking hard questions of ourselves and our actions, we can better understand and challenge the discipline our cultures encourage us to practice” (P.246). It proves again that our communication has the connection to our culture.

The first word I would use to describe the communication climate of my current place of employment would be self-disclosure, I chose this word because of the office comradery. My coworkers and I have been employed for about the same time and it been nearly 10 years. I work for a small independently owned business that staffs 6-12 employees depending on the season, most of us have gained the trust of one another that we feel comfortable talking about anything in front of one another. We all know each other’s family members and speak to them quite frequently, my employer makes sure everyone feels comfortable they are very open and trusting of those who deserve it.

Some key aspects of communication involve utilizing sincerity when giving feedback, making feedback positive, avoiding becoming emotional, and practicing giving the feedback before actually speaking to the employee (Schamotta). All managers for the company will need experience or training to ensure that they are communicating with employees in ways that follow what the company believes to be acceptable (Schamotta).

Communication is one of the most important skills a person can develop. While simple, it is a key element of what makes us human. The ability to talk with another person allows us to create relationships that would never be possible if we could not communicate with one another. Interacting with each other is often the quickest way to understand someone else regardless of who they are. Although, when we communicate with others we use more than just our voices. A number of other senses are vital to the way we connect with others. The most important of these, in my opinion, would be sight, touch, and sound. However, if one or more of these senses were missing from the equation, would it be inevitable for a friendship to fail?