Effective Communication Interpersonal Communication Communication Styles Communication Skills Dealing With Difficult People Team Communication Conflict Resolution Workplace Communication Business Communication   Effective Communication Dealing with Difficult People Interpersonal Communication Team Communication Communcation Styles Conflict Resolution Communication Skills Workplace Communication Business Communication   Effective Communication Values. Each of us maintains a set of values - moral or ethical judgments of things we consider important. Values can be a source of conflict within an individual as well as a barrier between people of opposing standards. Fearing a malpractice suit, for instance, a doctor who comes upon an accident victim may be reluctant to offer assistance. The doctor's values will determine what action is taken. Sometimes an individual will voice one set of values and be guided by another. For example, parents may scold their children for dishonesty but think nothing of cheating on their income tax. Go to Articles Interpersonal Communication This form of communication describes the interactions of two or more people. The most significant setting for interpersonal communication is direct face-to face communication between two persons. An interview, a conversation, and intimate communications come under this heading. It is more persuasive and influential than any other type of communication, for it involves the interplay of words and gestures, the warmth of human closeness and in fact all the five senses. Feedback is the key word here. Feedback is instantaneous. Go to Articles Communication Styles It is necessary to understand how you communicate with yourself before you approach the process of communicating with others. The elements that set the process in motion are called stimuli. The brain is made aware of the state of the body by nerve impulses, internal stimuli that can prompt you to respond by communicating. Let's say you have the flu. Your muscles ache, your fever is high, and you are depressed. Such a miserable state may prompt you to call a doctor to relieve your physical ills and friend to relieve your depression. The internal stimuli in this situation have resulted in communication. Go to Articles Communication Skills Effective communication skills are essential for a better understanding of how to communicate effectively - to individuals and groups, via spoken communications, written communications, and even electronic communications. In a recent survey of recruiters from companies with more than 50,000 employees, communication skills were cited as the single more important decisive factor in choosing managers. Problems with communication can pop-up at every stage of the communication process. Learn and refine your process of communication by: focusing on your sender communication skills, encoding your message information, reviewing different channels of communication, decoding your message to the receiver, giving feedback and being aware of the context of your communication. Go to Articles Business Communication The most basic level of communication is intrapersonal communication. It is a function of the physical self, the intellectual self, habits, and private versus public situations. In addition, the need for a unified conceptual system and the picture that you have of yourself- your self concept- also strongly influence these self-communications. Your past experiences, reference groups, and accustomed roles combine in ever-changing relationships to form this self concept. At the same time, internal and external stimuli affect the cognitive, emotional, and physiological processing of intrapersonal communication. Go to Articles Dealing With Difficult People Communication is part of your social self. Because we are using a person-centered definition of communication, not one related to machine or animal communication, it is important to see how a person's self is at the heart of all communication interactions. You think, you listen, you respond, and you speak and you do all of these things from your self-perspective. You need to look at the self- your self- to understand the key to any communication event. Intrapersonal communication is basis of the entire communication-taking place in variety of settings. Go to Articles Team Communication The larger the group the less personal and intimate is the possibility of exchange. In fact, as the group grows in size communication tends to become more and more of monologue, for participation becomes problematic. The degree of directness and intimacy, therefore, depends upon the size of the group, the place where it meets, as also the relationship of the members of the group to one another, and to the group leader. Group communication requires the following conditions: leadership, equal sharing of ideas, peer pressure, roles and norms, and focus on a common goal. Go to Articles Conflict Resolution There may be instances where the sender really doesn't care when the receiver will deal with the message. It's like delegating a task to someone. An efficient manager will not wait for that task to complete before going on to other tasks. This is being asynchronous. If a manager has to wait for the task to complete before doing anything else, first of all they are not an efficient delegator, and second, they are performing synchronously. If your application is running in an environment where the connection between the two applications is not reliable, or if one of the applications is running on a disconnected computer, like a laptop, then asynchronous communications can be a real benefit. Also, if one of the applications only ran during off-hours, then without asynchronous communications, the sender would have to wait until the next day to complete its processing. Go to Articles Workplace Communication When a message needs help to get from its source to its destination, mass communication begins to function. Usually some form of medium- one meaning of which is ‘between'- is needed to connect the sender to receivers. These media may be print (newspapers or magazines) electrical (radio, TV or video), or even electronic (computer modems). Mass communication powerfully affects our attitudes and beliefs, as well as our perspective on social life. Today mass communication is a major source of information, companionship, and entertainment. Yet mass communication does more than report information and entertain us. It also presents us with views of human beings, events, issues, and cultural life. Mass communication also grants a hearing and visibility to some people and points of views, whereas it mutes other voices and viewpoints. Thus mass communication affects our perceptions of issues, events, and people. Go to Articles  Share this:   Reddit  Del.icio.us  Live Spaces  Facebook  Digg  StumbleUpon