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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		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.

		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 is... communication. I need to be aware that I assume to great extent that whatever intentions I have, you will 'understand' or at least 'follow' my drift (since I know better and what I say is just common sense...). And yet, after these last words, some may shut down ("what an arrogant bastard"), some may smile (on my "cynical joke") and some may dissect my every word on a pure rational/dictionary level… The post is very good for a specific context of communicating. In general however proper understanding of the meaning of 'information', and even breaking the very 'rules' of this post, may prove to generate even 'greater communication'. Communication is not a science but rather an art. Techniques may support this art, but should never replace it, nor proclaim 'this is effective communication'.

		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 people we speak with gestures and signs but the important thing is we understand what we mean. So the complicated theory is good to know but the simple thing is that you understand each other and can response or react.

		Paul jansen, Netherlands
	0 Naomi Nailed it Perfectly Naomi wrote: "[communication is] that you understand each other and can response or react." I truly love it!

		Mary Carmen Garcia Tapia, Mexico
	0 Communication Yes indeed, body language is important to see, it gives a lot of information.

		SATISH PANDE Business Consultant, India
	0 Body Language > Lie to me Body language definitely contributes to communication. I recommend 'Lie to me' on Starworld at 10pm on week days. In India. Excellent!!!

		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.

		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.

		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.

		LAKSHMAN PURIHELLA Accountant, Saudi Arabia
	1 Communication - When it is Effective Let there be an excellent talker. But as long as he/she is not aware of how the other person has perceived it.... How on earth would that be an effective communication? (...)