Visual communication

• Graphic communication
• Picture worth a thousand words
• Forms are:
• Public signs,visual symbols,tables,
charts,maps,icons and emoticons.
Advantages and disadvantages
• Brings receivers attention
• Clarification of meaning
• Gain and regain
• Adds variety
• Limited scope
• Too brief
• Not easy
• Not cost effective
• misinterpretation
Communication cycle
 Importance of feedback
• To evaluate the effectiveness
• Important aspects
⮚ Completion
⮚ Effective evaluation
⮚ Meaningful
⮚ What the receiver is thinking
⮚ End result of an idea
⮚ Base for future
⮚ New idea generation.
 Descriptive feedback
• Multi dimensional
• Non evaluative
• Supportive
• Consistent
• Constructive
• Objective
• Timely
• specific
• Formative
Throughout learning process
• Summative
End of the istructional unit.
descriptive prescriptive
Good or not so good How you should
communicate?
Your communication Mam,how was my
style is good speech?
Your verbal
communication is not
good
Specific and non specific feedback
• The way you mentioned all points in a
logical order to convey your viewpoint was
good.
• Good job or you did great
 Types of communication barriers and
their factors
• Intra personal
• Inter personal
• Environment based
• Lack of planning and trust
• Ambiguity
• Distortions
• Implied meanings
• Noise
• Time and distance
 7c’s of effective communication
• Clear information
• Complete information
• Concise message
• Concrete and coherent presentation
• Correctness
• Consideration of the message
• courtesy
 Writing skills
• Solid structure
• Crystal clear clarity
• Candid consistency
• Selection of right medium
Sentence and phrase
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Paragraph construction