Receiver of your Message
Your message is delivered to individual members of your audience. No doubt, you have in mind the actions or reactions you hope your message will get from this audience. Keep…
Decoding your Message
Just as successful encoding is a skill, so is successful decoding (involving, for example, taking the time to read a message carefully, or listen actively to it.) Just as confusion…
Channelizing your Message
Messages are conveyed through channels, with verbal, including face-to-face meetings, telephone and videoconferencing; and written including letters, emails, memos, and reports. Different channels have different strengths and weaknesses. For example,…
Encoding your Message
This is the process of transferring the information you want to communicate into a form that can be sent and correctly decoded at the other end. Your success in encoding…
Source of the Message
The message is the information that you want to communicate. As the source of the message, you need to be clear about why you’re communicating, and what you want to…
Communications Skills – The Importance of Removing Barriers
Communication barriers can pop-up at every stage of the communication process (which consists of sender, message, channel, receiver, feedback and context, and have the potential to create misunderstanding and confusion.…
Importance of Communication Skills in Your Professional Career
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. The survey, conducted…
Why Communication Skills Are Important?
The purpose of communication is to get your message across to others clearly and unambiguously. Doing this involves effort from both the sender of the message and the receiver. And…