While in Bali, my family and I were in the car driving back to our villa and I decided I wanted to get a massage when we got back, so I contacted the masseuse to book one in. However, because of other conversations happening in the car at the same time, it made it extremely difficult for the receiver, which was the masseuse, to hear the accurate message that I was transmitting. Though I asked the woman if I could book a masseuse to come to the villa, she thought I asked to book in at the spa. Because of the noise in the background, the communication flow was affected. This made the masseuse wait for me at the spa, when I thought I was waiting for her at the villa. Eventually, the villa staff contacted her and got the situation sorted. …show more content…
This powerful theory was generally designed to improve technical communication and later began to be used to represent different fields of communication. Shannon and Weaver’s objective was to analyze how signals could be communicated with little misunderstanding and how messages could be transformed into electronic signals adequately. They wanted to determine the fastest and most effective way to get a message from one place to another. Today it consists of numerous ideas including sender, who is the individual that initiates the message, encoder, which is the translating of information into a message, channel, is the medium that carries the message, decoder, is what the sender is communicating, receiver, is who the message is directed too, feedback, is any feedback the receiver has, and noise, which is any factor that disrupts the communication. The idea of noise is that it goes through the channel and makes the message much more difficult to understand by the receiver. The various conversations that took place in the background are considered to be the factor called noise. This disrupted the flow of information and made an impact on how my message was received. In my experience, the issue pertaining to distraction affected the message being sent as well as feedback. The result of the noise was that the receiver acquired an …show more content…
It is important to be aware of your own cultural beliefs, values and traditions as you communicate, because this influence’s the quality of listening. I am aware that I need to be cautious of the language I use in the clinical environment, as I can see how this would have an impact on my communication as a student midwife. Furthermore, I am aware that use of good body language is crucial, as it says a lot about how engaged you are in a conversation. Body posture, eye contact, facial expression and touch are all very important characteristics of communication. I believe it is important to hold good body language and make eye contact to the person speaking to you otherwise they may believe you are not interested in what they have to say. I will use all of these aspects while being a student midwife, as it will improve my body language skills that will have a positive impact on how well I can connect with someone. This will then help them to feel validated, trusted and comfortable with me. In addition, I suffer from anxiety. Anxiety has a very bad impact on a segment in the brain that manages communication skills as well as creativity. This makes it difficult to be able to concentrate, as well as effective communication being decreased due to irritability. I have found techniques since being at Wintec that benefit, including yoga, deep breathing,