Abogado, Marxel S.

ICT 201

1. How can we achieve effective communication with other people?

Communication is essential to us because it utilizes our abilities of sense,

knowledge, empathy, and reflection. These abilities make us human and
superior above any other living thing. To communicate effectively, we must
maximize these to what our capabilities can handle and always put them into
practice.

Our five senses gather information from the physiological aspects around
us and send these to the brain for us to react back to what we sense. The senses
of sight, hearing and touch are the most dominant in communication. They are
channels for verbal and non-verbal communication. Sight can be used for
reading, eye contact, seeing one’s gestures and body language. Hearing is for
observing sounds like voices, ambience, and even noise. Touch gives us intimacy
with other people like high-fives, hugging, kissing, yet even physical abuse such
as punching. A person with great senses can significantly observe the intentions
of someone or something. They can give feedback with the appropriate
emotions and contribute well in communicating.

Knowledge gives us an advantage in communicating because it gives us

more paths in creating signals and channels yet makes the message easier for
everyone else to understand. I believe that this can make an effective
communicator, in which they can balance a conversation of those of multiple
levels by adapting to their way of thinking and understanding. It is also
important to know that when there is knowledge, there is content and meaning
to a message. With this, it will make communications fulfilling with more things
to say and more feedback the receiver can give, and vice versa.

A person with empathy can recognize and understand another’s emotion

without the need of experiencing the same situations. A good example of
expressing empathy is listening. Listening thoroughly shows that you are in the
conversation and would not let the message get away from you. It helps you
know what appropriate emotions and encoding you will use to keep a
conversation your way. Empathy can also make sure that others can give their
messages clear because they can freely express them.

Reflecting on something shows that you had an experience then learned

from it. Reflection is important in effectively communicating because it shows
that we understand the information we gathered and see ourselves applying
them after. It can also result in better empathy with other people. We can also
use these in the future for sharing to other people and developing better
communications.
 It is important to set our best efforts to keep these in practice because it
will make higher tendencies to repeat and it will be easier for one to be
accustomed. Effective communication

2. How is communication affected by media and information?