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Hi there, good to share another thread of thoughts on our learning journey. Was scratching my head for a good time, on a title to write… many ideas passed by, but thought that I will deliver something concrete this time… on a topic, which is need of the hour, most important at this juncture, when your learning is at its high, a topic which the entire education system is grappling with… hmmm, that’s good enough to set the stage, am referring to title “Communication”. 

I will present this article as a series of sub-titles. A little theory, to start, kindle some fundamental questions, relate theoretical guidance to real life situations and last but not the least, advises… on how to hone our communication skill. Well, that defines a little framework  

K, let’s jump. Now, what’s communication? Yeah, it’s a big topic. Theoretically it involves transmission of, say a message from sender to recipient. Well, the challenge of communication, rather effective communication is almost at every stage of this transmission, challenges could be with sender, it could be with the way message is encoded, it could be the choice & quality of medium, understanding of decoding nuances, challenges could be with recipient or the message itself.  

Was that a little dry! let me relate. Did you ever wonder, how animals communicate with each other. Think about it, be it wild animals, or the pets at home, they do communicate amongst each other in the absence of a language or probably thru’ their native language. Did you watch the way humans communicate with animals and vice versa. Point is, communication is more than just the language. That would be the first distinction that you need to realize. 

So, communication is not necessarily about building English speaking skills. It is about how effective you are in articulating your views and ensuring that the recipient receives in the same form and feel, as you intended.  

To relate to theory, articulation is encoding. It is the way you gather your raw data, process them as information & present. Key pointers would be to be a knowledgeable person (meant well read), who has access to relevant data, who knows the art of processing data as information, skill of conceptualizing ideas as frameworks to present, identify or differentiate between information which would make sense to intended recipient verses junk, no value add – those are aspects of sender & encoding. 

Next step is transmission, choice of media. Again skill is about knowing the right media to choose, should I just pick up the phone, talk & explain or should I send an email, choosing the right media and obviously to understand the distortions of varied media and its impact on message.  

It is also key to know, how recipient would decode, what you communicated. May be to kind of understand, if possible, recipients bias, may be cultural aspects of recipient and so on….point I am trying to drive is to understand that effective communication involves understanding entire chain.  

You know what, let me stop here. You would hear from me, in my next article on….Hey, Watch this space for more details.  

Happy blogging.