How to Communicate Effectively? Tips

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How to Communicate Effectively? Tips
How to communicate in an effective way?
1. Remember the definition of communication i.e. what the communication means
2. What's the purpose of your communication
3. Bring the process (elements) of communication into your mind
4. Work on following communication elements:

1. SOURCE - Identify the exact source of communication... From whom the information flows
2. UNDERSTANDING - Ensure the proper ideas for your purpose are present in your mind... For this read, read.. Read and read to "mature" your ideas
3. MESSAGE - Bring your ideas, feelings or thinking into meaningful, clear to understand and easy words... Don't use cliche or jaw breaking of tongue twisting words... Personify your ideas in a simple way... In other words make your message according to the demographic and psychographic features of your audience... Keep in mind the education level, age, gender, financial status, culture, social values, norms, mores, their language, their religious believes, accessibility and other things while making a message
4. CHANNEL - Choose the medium that is appropriate for the audience to accept the ideas... so they can buy it. Have time to watch/listen/read, easy access, etc
5. DECODING - Convey your message into simple language this will help the audience to decode your ideas easily
6. RECEIVER (audience) - While you are creating a message, always... first of all... Analyze who are your audience or to whom you are conveying your message... Bear in mind the socio-economic-relegious-financial level and demographic and psychographic factors
7. FEEDBACK - Always always seek feedback from your audience. This will help your to re-make your message according to your requirements for the purpose
8. NOISE - Always reduce noise/hurdles during the process of communication, noise can be either phyical or psychological:
   H1. Physical noise includes semantic noise... Wrong utterance of words, misspelling... Poor printing, problems in signals or transmissions... Or extreme volume difficult to understand etc.
   H2. Psychological noise includes frame of reference is not same, education level or field of experience is not same, communicator's bias, cultural factors and cognitive dissonance etc.

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		Moses Arun Chander Management Consultant, United Arab Emirates
	7 Communication Skills: 3 Factors. Listening: 2 Factors One can communicate effectively with 3 major factors: knowledge, language and feelings. The most important is to understand the receiver's (target audience) level of knowledge, language and feelings. Yes.. Listening has 2 factors: selective listening and deep listening (listening to words, gestures and bodylanguage too).. Any communication without creating a platform for the receiver to respond may not be more effective... Thanks for all your comments...

		Mirza Fareed Beg Management Consultant, Pakistan
	6 The Sweet Tune of the FLUTE in Interpersonal Communication F - Focus on issues -- not on people (their weaknesses, their misgivings, etc.) L - Listen; and listen with interest and empathy -- know and feel like the listener/s U - Understand that effectiveness in communication is the "exchange of understanding" between speaker and listener/s -- consideration of feedback is therefore vital T - Tolerate differences in beliefs, values, status, cultures, etc. -- be aware that 'total' congruence in feelings, ideas, thoughts (fit) between any two persons is impossible E - Encode what we feel, imagine and think into appropriate messages, while keeping in mind the situation and timing of the particular interaction What are your feelings, ideas, thoughts (fit) on this?

		michael harwig Analyst, United States
	4 80-20 Rule in Communication I was told (wisely) that there is an 80 - 20 rule to effective communications: Listen 80%, Talk 20%. People want to hear themselves, not you. If you listen 80% of the time, you hear what they have to say. Talking 20% shows that you are listening; however, not trying to control the conversation (not listening). Bottom line: people want others to 'listen to them'. Too many people want to hear 'themselves'; thus, neither is listening effectively. By listening 80%, you are showing that you really care about what the other person has to say. You will find that the speaker enjoys talking to you (because you are listening to them) and will always enjoy talking to you in the future. If you talk more than 20% of the time (in response) it means that, while they are talking, you are not listening; you are thinking about 'your response' to them.

		Ericka Alonzo Student (University), Nicaragua
	3 Communicating Effectively: Tone of Voice Thanks so much for all the extra information!! It will help me a lot with my communication skills I completely agree with every input here. I would like to add a little something: when we are communicating with others, or at least trying to, it makes wonders to regulate the tone of the voice, it doesn't matter what you're saying, if it is said assertively, believing what you're saying the message will go through with no problems. Thanks 12manage for such a great opportunity to know the opinions of all those people who take their time to share their knowledge with us who know so little.

		Jean Claude Perrault Manager, South Africa
	3 Communication: Keep it Simple Albert Einstein is quoted as having said "If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough". Irrespective of body language, eloquent speech and communication method used, you must communicate in a simple manner.

		Tleli Makhetha, South Africa
	3 Effective Communication The key to effective communication is understanding what you are communicating, with whom and why you are doing it. To simplify communication and make it effective requires that the communicator must use his brain to deal with all the above questions, not being lazy. Modern management seeks a silver bullet that will provide a complete answer to all effective communication challenges. But variations in terms of personality, culture, timing, language, emotional state, urgency, complexity of the desired outcome, etc preclude a universally applicable communication approach. It is more useful to define a process to determine the best way of communicating effectively under given circumstances. The only true measure of effective communication is the response by the target.

		ANTONIO BARRANCO RUIZ Director, Spain
	3 Theory and Practise of Communication (2) One of the major problems of communication is that most people, by the simple fact that we can talk and write, consider themselves good communicators, making those who are listening responsible (guilt (...)

		naomi husein-siregar, Indonesia
	3 What is Effective Communication From my point of view effective communication is simple; the exact word is "mutual understanding". In Indonesia there are more than 500 dialects, most people speak the national language, but for some (...)

		ANTONIO BARRANCO RUIZ Director, Spain
	3 It Takes Going Beyond Elementary Communication Theory to Communicate Effectively Dear Shahid: The text that you've provided is a good summary of the elementary theory of communication and its elements. It refreshes the memory. Even if most manuals of linguistics or communication c (...)

		Bomo Albert-Oguara, Nigeria
	2 Communication and Culture Communication and the impact of culture on its deliverability, reminds me of the Esso campaign in the 1980's in Italy. The campaign tag line had literally been translated into the Italian language and (...)

		Waseem A. Nisar, United States
	2 Effective Communication All contribution is great. However, I believe to be effective communication, we should cite the source(s) we got our material. (...)

		Stella Ang, Singapore
	2 Effective Communication: Feelings First Communication is about listening and trying to understand what the other person is feeling about the issue. Deal with the feelings first. Later it's more effective to communicate ideas for the issue. (...)

		Bomo Albert-Oguara, Nigeria
	2 Communicating Effectively AIDA, DAGMAR, Two Step Flow, etc. Beautiful in themselves. The most critical of all factors as far as I am concerned is knowing the right moment to engage your audience. Moment in communication is a (...)

		Anupam Swarup OD Consultant, United Arab Emirates
	2 Lack of Communication Skills Effective communication is not as easy as it may seem. We all communicate, everyday, almost every hour of our waking lives. Perhaps next to breathing, the next most done thing is communicating. We co (...)

		PAT O REILLY Ireland
	2 Skilled Communication To making a successful presentation or speech - here are my recommended points to keep in mind: 1. Attention span - How do you get the attention of audience - this is vital at the beginning 2. Remem (...)

		Paul jansen, Netherlands
	2 Communicating is Handling Information Effectively Communicating is exchanging information. The definition of information I use is: "Information is the meaning of the representation of a fact (or of a message) for the receiver". This reaction of mine (...)

		ANTONIO BARRANCO RUIZ Director, Spain
	2 Theory and Practise of Communication Effective communication occurs when a person INFLUENCES another. Otherwise we cannot speak of real communication. In addition, communication effectiveness is based on how clearly the listener receive (...)

		GS RADJOU CEO, France
	2 Simple is NOT Always Better. Why not? A) For managers communicating is making decision / processing activities. B) Take models in math, economy, etc. They are simple because it allows people to communicate easily and put links between ca (...)

		Mohamed Hisham, Sri Lanka
	2 Effective Communication Requires Effective Listening To have good communication, you need to have effective listening skills. Lots of people forget this when they're communicating. (...)

		GS RADJOU CEO, France
	2 Effective Communication: Funnel Theory Funnel theory for solving communication problems. Most of communications are unclear because of our perceptions. Rule: The sender message should convey not only meaning but also understanding. In a (...)

		shahid imran Student (University), Pakistan
	2 Communication is All About 'How your Message is Perceived' @ANTONIO BARRANCO RUIZ: Thanks. Being a research student of media studies, I strongly believe that Communication is not a static process; rather it is dynamic in nature. Whether it be direct / indirec (...)

		NVDS.RAJU Professor, India
	2 Communicating Effectively Means to be Brief Many speakers go in for impressing the group (showman-ship) rather than for expressing their view point / opinion. It's often said that every word we utter is a mantra and should be used selectively / (...)