Principles of Effective Communication

Principles of Effective Communication 

General communication skills is when someone try to convey a message or point to another person or an audience. The audience is what determines what kind of language will be used and what manner will the message delivered

Differentiating between facts and opinion.

Differentiating between facts and opinion is important but it can be very difficult when trying to communicate a topic or issue that is of a sensitive, moral, ethical, personal or emotive nature. That is why it is very important that before a presenting these issues that what is being said is based on evidence and research that can be prove and are true or false but an opinion on the other hand is based on experiences or hearsay and is different for each person and can be changed.

Cultural consideration

Cultural consideration is important when it comes to communication. Different cultures can have different meaning for things. They may have a different language, accent or beliefs. They can also have different political view or sociality. It is very important that cultural differences are taking into consideration and respected when addressing your audience.

                                                       

Written communication is another form of communication. It not as simple as knowing how to type or write using your hand. It require language knowledge so that the audience understands what the message is that is be convey to them as visual cues such as body language or aural cues such as tone of voice will not be available to them. Written communication can be formal in terms of providing a legal seal such as a contract of employment or a business agreement.

Note Taking

Taking notes can be an important feature in written communication as it can form the basis of future documents there are different way that notes can be taken.

One way of taking notes is to writing them down in bullet and key points.

Taking notes in the way can be very quick, specific and easy to apply as there are build-in features in application software packages. Bullets points can be format as a short sentence or a single word. Another method of taking notes is shorthand. Shorthand is when someone turns a complete word into a short symbols to speed up the process of taking notes. Spider diagrams is a way of taking notes by using keywords and word or subject associations. Quotations is when some writes down a specific phrase or a quote from a particular authors or it can be or sources that can be used as references for future research. Annotation is another way to take notes these are used to provide an expansion to thoughts or ideas. Annotations can be textual or graphical.

Review and Editing Documents Created by Others

There are different methods of can be used to review and edit documents that are created by different people. These techniques for reviewing and edited work can range from proofreading. This is to check for currency, correctness and relevance in the content. Other can involve  highlighting text, using comment boxes, inserting footnotes or endnotes or applying some sort of formatting such as ‘strike through’ to delete text.

                                         

Interpersonal skills

Communication has one requirement, communication needs to be between two or more people. A person can covey a message by using words. These word can spoken or they can be written but there are other ways to communicate with a person with out using words. These methods are signs, signals, facial and bodily expressions and silence. Other people can pick up on these methods by using their senses to get the general idea of what the message is going to be.

Body language

Body language can be effective when try communicating with someone face to face. Word have more impact when they are accompany with gestures. These gesture can come a person’s hand, arm, face and the movement of the person’s body. A different gesture for different kinds of points can make the point stay in the mind of the intended audience. Body language does not work if the other person is on the other line of  phone or can not see the who is talking to them as body language can only be conveyed face to face.

Signing

Signing or sign language is a method of communication with people who cannot hear or people who are mute and unable to speak. Sign language involves  the movement of a persons body hands and face in gestures that represent words and phase to covey what that person is saying and thinking.