Assignment: Effective Communication

Acknowledgement
First and foremost, I would like to thank God for giving me the mental and physical capability to do and complete this project. I would also like to express my profound gratitude to my daughter Aisha, for her dedication, keen interest and moral support.

Introduction
Every day we communicate. Communication can occur through various forms such as conversations, posters or body language. The most basic purpose of human communication is to fulfil a need. As we grow up, we learn language, which makes communication far easier. We can express our needs more clearly and more precisely. Learning new words almost every day, our ability to communicate keeps improving and developing. We learn to communicate for other purpose,

Livestrong.com states that “The goals of effective communication include creating changing behaviours and acquiring information and a common perception”.
Effective communication begins with encoding and ends with decoding. Encoding simply means choosing the vocabulary that you will use, while decoding is the process by which the significance of the message is converted by the recipient.
There are several ways in which effective communication can be practiced such as:
1. Effective communication improves when there is consideration for each context such as the gender, age, race, creed, nationality, cultural background of all participants and attitudes regarding these.
2. Senior managers should thrive to avoid premature assessment and the habit of patient listening of communication from their deputy. This will prompt free flow of upward communication. Also a good way of practicing effective communication 3. Consideration is to be taken on whether the message is informal or formal, or whether the message spoken, written or non-verbal. Moreover, if the message is for a ‘crowd’ do they have something in common, or is it a diverse

This comes about when the information is put into a form where the recipient cannot fully understand.
•Faulty Equipment-both the sender and the receiver need to make sure that all equipment they use is functioning properly. For example, if a fax machine runs out of ink, the message will not be able to be passed properly.
• Psychological noise-This is probably the most important barrier of all. “Psychological noise” is not real noise. The term refers to the ways in which we allow our personal feelings and attitude to affect our judgement and our interpretation of a message
2. Barriers which are as a result of outside impacts during the process of comunication.
•Noise- Features of the location that interfere with the transfer of correct information. In simpler terms, it most often refers to the physical noise. It also refers to other kinds of interference such as poor telephone connection.
We can overcome most of the barriers to communication by following a few simple rules.
1. Define the purpose- Ask yourself what the purpose of this communication is; what are you trying to achieve? This must be the over-riding consideration. You must make sure that the message achieves its