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‘One of the most important skills that any person within an organisation needs is the ability to communicate. Without communication your skills are less useful.’
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Homo sapiens’s Values, Beliefs & Thoughts define their Perception for Communication.
Key Words – Values, Beliefs, Thoughts, Perception, Communication Adaptation, Homo sapien.
Homo sapiens (human beings) are approximately 80% water (Cole,2000), therefore are approximately 80% identical, however what makes them different to each other is not how tall or what hair colour they have but what comes from ‘inside’ of themselves (Bone,2010). It is what is in their minds and their hearts which render their (1) values, beliefs and thoughts (Kelly, 1962). Many of these values, beliefs and thoughts are established from parents, siblings, friends and early experiences (Kelly,1962), which as they progress through life are adjusted and expanded upon according to what life, the society - in which - they exist, and the culture they experience have provided for them (Cole,2000). These values, beliefs and thoughts define Homo sapiens as individuals, and are the lenses through which they view their world (Cole, 2000). (1) Values, beliefs and thoughts colourwhat humans visualize, hear and think for example when a substance abusing group was questioned on what percentage of the human population they believed, consumed illegal drugs on a regular basis, most of them answered 95%. The substance abusing group firmly believed that these statistics were true and correct; their reality included drug use which they kept recreating and reinforcing over time (SH, 2008). Values, beliefs and thoughts influence the way - in which - the human population perceive one another, and how they communicate to one another for example crystal clear communication
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