Communication 22 October 2005

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Communication22 October 2005
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What does communicationmean to you?

• Making people aware of something
• Making contact with others
• Connecting with other peoples thoughts and ideas
• Conveying information
• Sharing knowledge
• Reporting
• Revealing how you feel
• Correspondence with others

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Reasons why we communicate?

• To inform others
• To learn
• To find out things
• To persuade
• To amuse and entertain
• To enable us to relate to the feelings of others
• To supervise or give instruction

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Reasons why we communicate?

• To negotiate
• To help and support others
• To exchange ideas
• To make people aware of how we feel
• To express our opinions

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Different ways we communicate

• Speech
• Phone
• Mobile voice text
• Internet
• Email
• Sign language

• Letter
• Codes signals
• Body language
• Listening
• Media

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Effects of GOOD communication

• We will learn more
• We will influence others
• We will get more of what we want
• We will make better relationships
• We will settle differences
• We will be able to help others

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Effects of BAD communication

• Relationships will be difficult
• We wont learn as much
• Others will find us confusing
• We wont be able to achieve what we want
• Well be unable to get help when we need it
• Well miss out on important information