Essay about The Importance of Successful Communication

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

Every worker should send their message using the right method preferred by the person they are communicating with and give feedback immediately whenever possible.

Communication isn’t just about talking. There are so many different elements to communicating in society. How a person gestures, the tone in an individual’s voice, an expression on a person’s face, how a person listens is all a part of communicating. As we all know, in order to communicate with one another we must be able to listen. I think in society people think that communication is all about speaking but in reality it is just a little piece to a bigger picture. In today’s society, listening seems to be a skill that is being neglected. Even though it is basically the first communication skill that we are exposed to, we have pushed it aside and chose speaking to dominate our lives. Researchers have discovered that fetuses can process incoming sounds during the last trimester of pregnancy, and that by 12 months children have learned sounds of and rules of their native language(Worthington, 3). This shows that children’s abilities to speak, read, write and reason are influenced highly by how well they are taught to listen. As parents we can all be teachers to our children so that they can grow up to be well-rounded communicators.

My discourse community, the Bartlett High School Band, has several ways of communicating. One of those ways of communicating is using the Remind messaging system. Mr. Dwight Dodd, the band director, uses this system to send messages including but not limited to the band schedule, where to report to for a band competition, and the most common is the entire email he sent that is usually an extremely long email. That brings up another way that we use to communicate which is by email. Mr. Dodd might “blow-up” our phones with text messages using Remind but we get emails daily from him. This is where he sends us the schedules and the messages that are to long to put in a text although he sometimes does it anyway. If you are on the email system with Mr. Dodd then you will know what is going on at all times. Another way that the band uses to communicate is through the Facebook group that was created by our own Bartlett Band

The communication process is used in every kind of relationship. It could be in a friendship, an acquaintance, a significant other, a family, and many more. I found out these processes can be harder than you think three years ago. My father got remarried and I was forced to become up close and personal with complete strangers, my step family. The communication process language in my step family describes the concepts and ideas of the transactional communication model and the social penetration theory.

TO: Alison Allen, Human Resources Director; Cary Hasler, Marketing/Advertising Director; Joseph Earl, Customer Service Director; Elizabeth Hope-Earl, Client Account Director

Communication is important in relationships as it allows us to share our interest, concerns, support each other; organize our lives and make decisions; and it allows us to work together. Effective communication is based on the way we talk and listen, how we respond and our body language. We can all learn how to improve the way we communicate.

Perhaps the single most important skill a supervisor can lies within the art of communication. “The basic purpose of communication is to transfer understanding” (Kreitner, 1980).

When I first started working at TAPCO, I had little to no experience. The woman who was working in this position before me was retiring and the position needed to be filled. I interviewed for the job and in the same day, was hired. During the few days that I was trained, I learned all I could before she left. Figure 8.3 shows the process of communication. The sender encodes the message for the receiver to decode and then gives feedback to the sender. In my case, the woman who was training me was the sender. She had to teach me how to use the software programs and how the employer expects everything to be done. She would tell me to enter “SPR latches” into the “latch” or the “.035 SST Wire” into the “type of wire”. Of course, I was confused because I have never worked in an office or worked with security doors and screens. She had worked for the company for five years and knew every jargon, or specific words, used in the company. She started off by teaching me how to correctly type the production sheets for the purchase orders that would come into the office. Communicating with her in person made it easier to understand what she was saying because I could read her facial expressions and her body language while she was teaching me. She could show me the step-by-step process by pointing to the screen or writing it down for me to understand how she did it. In this case, I am the receiver. I had to decode what she was trying to tell me and give feedback of what I understood. I

An example can be when you are speaking to a friend of yours and he verbally refers to how exhausted he is. He may also later in the conversation begin to yawn. These two cues would tell you that they are extremely exhausted and the conversation would end. If a person did not properly interpret these messages they may find themselves having a difficult time communicating, due to the internal noise of your friend, and would not be a proper conversation. I believe that communication can be distorted or disrupted in many ways within a business setting. The one element I feel would really cause trouble would be channels. Channels are the methods of communication that are available to be used to relay information to another person or persons. These can be email, text, in person speaking, video chat, and even memos. When sending an email in a business setting we may not be as skilled in explaining certain subjects or can be misunderstood. I have personally experienced situations where I said something that could be taken as a negative response or a positive but was taken in a positive way. I believe that it would have been due to my non-verbal communication taking place. If I were to have sent an email it may not have been the same story. Choosing what channel to communicate in a business setting can be crucial on how others may perceive the

I utilize both written and verbal communication within my agency. We have a system called CPRS and we document all interaction with veterans in that system with SOAP notes. I also utilize email as a form of written communication for my supervisor and other staff members. The verbal communication is between the veterans and me, along with the staff. I have received positive feedback from my supervisor regarding my verbal interaction and written documentation for CPRS. I always send all documentation to my supervisor for approval prior to entering the information

During the encoding process, she was not very clear on what she wanted. During the coding process, I asked for a sample chart, which she said she would not provide. It was up to me to prepare it. The message was not clear since she really did not know what she wanted – and the message was verbal. I then communicated back to her via email, and asked her to provide me in writing what exactly she is looking for. The email was a little clearer and I prepared the document. As the receiver, I sent the document via email to her.

The Managing Director has three audiences in which she will have to communicate her goals. Since the main issue revolves around Jenny’s actions, she is the primary audience. A week ago, the Director sent Jenny an important email regarding report edits that needed changing before sending it to the client, which also included detailed instruction on the

The methods that my supervisor uses are email, and verbal and nonverbal communication. Communication "refers to the process by which information is transmitted and understood between two or more people" (McShane, S.L, & Von Glinow, M. 2016). Majority of the time these forms of communication are effective, but sometimes they are not. In regards to verbal and nonverbal communications, our supervisor seems to be more concerned

In addition, understanding different models of communication enable members inside and outside an organisation to depict different messages being provided by the employee or customer and develop their communication skills. The Shannon and Weaver model of communication was developed to show the effects of communication between two people (Kikoski, 1993). In the Shannon and Weaver model, a message is encoded (via a symbolic form) from a source (the sender) through a medium called a channel, and decoded (retranslated) by the receiver. However, the message can be interrupted by a process called noise and can result in discrepancy and sometimes negative feedback from the receiver (Bowman and Targowski, 1987). In response to the Shannon and Weaver model of communication, through the identification of any noise within the communication process, as a result of the manager level of attunement in communication skills, the encoded