Interpersonal Dynamics

Interpersonal Dynamics Name: Course title: Professor: Institution: Date Due:  Communication may be defined as the process by which individuals assign and convey meaning in creating a shared understanding with one another. People exchange information with words, signs or behavior by a process. The communication process requires a broad range of skills in interpersonal and intrapersonal processing, observing, listening, analyzing, evaluating as well as questioning. The utilization of these processes is on developmental basis and is transferable to all occupations; community, home, school and beyond. It is through communication that cooperation and collaboration could be realized (OSPI, p1). Effective communication is hardly taught and more of hardly learned in the society. However, exemplary communications are by no doubt very important in living a life of one’s own design. Effective communication skills include the ability of the sender to communicate messages to the receiver, and have that message effectively replicated in the receiver’s mind. If certain aspects of communication become unclear to the receiver, it is his or her responsibility to clarify the communication by employing the artistic use of questions. The communicator in this aspect accepts the responsibility for the result in the communication. This translates that the communicator must be conversant to code a communication so that it is received in an understandable way to the recipient (Hogan, 2012, p1). This also points out the essence of listening on the part of both the speaker and the audience. Listening in the communication process is the capability of obtaining the information from the process in a clear manner. It is the main element in all the communication process by both the speaker and the audience. Without effective listening, the anticipated information may not be clear to the audience and therefore, the audience will become unease. This would subsequnelty make the speaker to become irritated and frustrated (Adler, et al, 2009). In order to communicate effectively, speakers as Morgan, (2008) explain, should master the capability of communicating with their audience in a powerful and authentica manner. It is acknowledged by many people that communicating without understanding the audience, their feelings, experiences and point of view is not sound and will yield minimal results. According to Morgan, communicating authentically means that the speaker should be himself or herself in all situations. This is because; it may not be possible to please all the audience. The speaker is reminded that listening is a crucial element, which he or she should harbor if they wanted their communication to be effective. It is the goal of the speaker to understand their attitudes and experience. In doing this, he or she should occasionally ask them questions and give them an opportunity to talk to understand their feelings and obtain their views. Apparently, the audience might not even express their thoughts or f...