Monday, May 14, 2012

Week 8_Effective Communication


Communication is a massage from a communicator to a communicant that can be happened for at least two participants. Communication must be effective to avoid misunderstanding. There are five steps in communication process: sensing, interpreting, feeling, intending and expressing; which also include empathy and sympathy.
Five technics that we can use in effective communication:
1.    Good listeners.
2.     Use your wise to react your opposite communicator.
3.     Find your similarity (es) with your opposite communicator.
4.     Do not monopoly the communication.
5.     Avoid debating with your opposite.
There are four basic of personalities:
1.       Choleric               : direct, focused, tough, analytical, logical and strategic. 
2.   Sanguine          : spontaneity, optimism, enthusiasm, high energy, mental flexibility, novelty seeking, impulsiveness and curiosity.
3.        Phlegmatic        : nurturing, sympathetic, agreeable and emotionally expressive. 
4.       Melancholic       : tend to be calm, loyal and orderly, just as their personality name sounds.
Three basic communications styles:
1.       Aggressive.
2.       Passive.
3.       Assertive: the most recommended. Know when we need to be aggressive or passive.

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