What are the communication skills?

Communication means conveying your ideas and thoughts. Communication skill is the ability to convey your message in a nice manner. It is the process of interchanging information, ideas, feelings, and opinions, with or without the use of words.

The word communication is derived from the Latin word ‘communis’ means to share or to participate.

Two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which parties involved exchange information, news, ideas, and feelings.

The process of communication

Communicator

A person with ideas, intentions, information,  and a purpose  for the communicating

Message

An idea or experience that a sender wants to communicate

Encoding

Converting a message into the group of symbols that represent ideas or concepts

Medium and transmission

The carries of the message

Decoding-receiver

The technical term for the receiver‘s thought process.

Feedback

The receiver’s response to the senders’ message

Noise

The factors that distort the intended message

Effective communication

·      The clarity

·      Adequacy

·      Timing

·      Integrity

Communication Barrier

·      Semantic or language barrier

·      Physical barrier

·      Organizational barrier

·      Emotional barrier

·      Personal barrier

·      Technological barrier

·      Cultural barrier

How to overcome communication barriers?

Evaluate your feedback and try to improve your listening skills it is essential to overcome communication barriers. Also, improve your writing skills will help you to convey your message easily to another person.

Avoid credibility gaps and clarify your ideas before communication and put your consideration. You can overcome your communication barriers by beware of language, tone, and content.

Audience analysis 

An audience is a large group of people or receivers and audience analysis is a task that includes assessing the audience to make sure the information provided to them is at the appropriate level an audience requires the consideration of many factors, such as age, culture, and knowledge of subject. Now after considering all known factors, the profile of the intended audience can be easily created

Communication is a series of experience

       

·      Touch

·      Taste

·      Hearing

·      Seeing

·      Smell

Types of communication

Verbal communication

Verbal communication is the communication with the use of words and language to communicate messages with another party. It may be either written or oral.

Types of verbal communication

Oral communication

Written communication

Non-verbal communication

Non-verbal communication is the process of communication without the use of words, facial expressions, body language, posture, gesture, or more.

Types of non-verbal communication

·      Kinesics

·      Artifacts

·      Proxemics

·      Chronemics

·      Vocalics

·      Haptics

·      Listening

·      Reading

·      Writing

·      Speaking

·      Gestures