Principles Of Effective Communication 2
Task 2 – Explain the principles off effective communication
By Zain Riasat
General communication skills
“Understanding cultural difference, finding ways to engage an audience and being able to adapt to a situation.”
Wherever you go you are bound to come across cultural differences, these can range from variety of things such as the language people use (e.g. English people say "petrol" compared to
Americans who say "gasoline") to the way they greet each other
(English & Americans shake hands compared to Japanese who bow) and the way they eat (some Asian countries use chopsticks instead of knives and forks).
Adapting
The rule is then to adapt yourself to your surroundings rather than expecting them to treat you the way you expect.
If you were English and went to America and asked for “chips” you would get “crisps” in return because of the difference in meaning of the word.
Effective communication has a number of common elements.
When communicating, remember the following:
1.
Modulate your voice
2.
Correct terminology
3.
Suitable format
4.
Communication is unambiguous
Engaging audience
When being taught by a teacher you sometiems think is the technique the teacher using actually working for you. Most teachers in the school would create a Powerepint presentation and would run through it for the whole lessom ,with you expected to take notes. No one asks the question off am i actually gaining knowledge/ learning from this?
Another example would be Mr Wright’s way of teaching for our
BTEC class. Instead of showing us a presentation he would upload a flipped video which covers the topics we need to know. For homework we would watch this video prior to our next lesson. So when we have our next lesson we would go over what was in the video etc.
https://sites.google.com/site/btecict/unit-30/task-4
Potential barriers
The barriers to cultural differences are when you go abroad not to offend there culture. You sometimes only
By Zain Riasat
General communication skills
“Understanding cultural difference, finding ways to engage an audience and being able to adapt to a situation.”
Wherever you go you are bound to come across cultural differences, these can range from variety of things such as the language people use (e.g. English people say "petrol" compared to
Americans who say "gasoline") to the way they greet each other
(English & Americans shake hands compared to Japanese who bow) and the way they eat (some Asian countries use chopsticks instead of knives and forks).
Adapting
The rule is then to adapt yourself to your surroundings rather than expecting them to treat you the way you expect.
If you were English and went to America and asked for “chips” you would get “crisps” in return because of the difference in meaning of the word.
Effective communication has a number of common elements.
When communicating, remember the following:
1.
Modulate your voice
2.
Correct terminology
3.
Suitable format
4.
Communication is unambiguous
Engaging audience
When being taught by a teacher you sometiems think is the technique the teacher using actually working for you. Most teachers in the school would create a Powerepint presentation and would run through it for the whole lessom ,with you expected to take notes. No one asks the question off am i actually gaining knowledge/ learning from this?
Another example would be Mr Wright’s way of teaching for our
BTEC class. Instead of showing us a presentation he would upload a flipped video which covers the topics we need to know. For homework we would watch this video prior to our next lesson. So when we have our next lesson we would go over what was in the video etc.
https://sites.google.com/site/btecict/unit-30/task-4
Potential barriers
The barriers to cultural differences are when you go abroad not to offend there culture. You sometimes only