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The Process Of Communication


Welcome Back to Being Better! I hope you all are doing well. Since my first blog Communication - A Bridge or A Gap?, I was wondering what to hop onto next. So I have considered to create a small blog series about communication. One step at a time. I insist you to click on the above link if you haven't read my previous blog. It would definitely give you away a kick start.

Quick recap about my previous blog :
  • Communication is an inseperable part of our day to day life.
  • There are basicaly 3 types of people in the world of communication : Intoverts, Extroverts, Ambiverts
  • Introverts prefer to be alone in their own world and prefer less interaction.
  • Extroverts are active for communicating and gelling up easily with other people.
  • Ambiverts possess the ability to have a combined nature of both Introverts and Extroverts.

You must have observed so far by now that communication is a two-way process. It is simple like receiving a call. A person to deliver something and another one to receive it. A giver and a taker. Now what if the taker doesn't receive what the giver has to offer? What could be the reason for the receiver to not have what the giver has to offer? Could there be a gap in the channel? What is a channel now? Again too many things to know about. We will start with some basic terms and definitions to get a better idea.

How does the communication process works?

 

Here note that the audience can be a single person or a crowd as well. The speaker addresses to the audience to deliver content. So our first basic requiremnet to have a complete communication process is to have a speaker.


 

A listener is temporarily a static personaliy during a communication who simply records, considers, analyze and understand the data delivered. It is a kind of observation process but with utmost attention.

Fun Fact : It might sound too easy to just listen or hear out someone but in order to be effective and have benefits of listening you must pay attention and concentrate deliberately.

 

The channel is kind a mode of communication. For eg. If someone is speaking and the other person is listening then Voice is the channel of communication. It is generated by a person and received and understood by the other.

Another eg. is a mime act. Here the facial expressions and acting are the channel of communication. A person enacts and the other person visualises it and understands it by making a meaning out of it. There can be different channels for a communication. It's like a FM Radio signal, the frequency must match to hear the channel. Similarly while using a communication channel, the frequency must match. Like while communicating verbally, the language of communication must be known by both member at the end. Similary in an act, the spectator must have an abled vision and stable mind to understand.

If the frequency doesn't match i.e. the channel is disturbed then neither the content nor it's meaning are delivered at all. That is where our next term comes into the picture.

 

Communication Gap is one of the most frictional part of a conversation which leads to ineffective communication at times. If not taken seriously and done something about it, it keeps existing and widing the Gap between the speaker and the audience. We might cover this topic in detail in the upcoming blogs.

I hope you liked it and did learn something new in an indulging manner. Feel free to express your thoughts, opinions, suggestions and questions if any in the commnets. You can also suggest topics and headings you would like to read on the blog. I would be happy to connect and entertain you. If you learnt something by reading this blog, even the smallest thing which could be just a new word, please do share and subscribe to this Blog. I would really appreciate that.

Thank You!

- Kishan Ponda

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