The sharing of meaningful information
between two or more people with the goal
of the receiver
understanding the sender's intended message. In business,
the effectiveness
of a company's
internal and external communication process is often very important to its
overall success.
Communication (from Latin "communis",
meaning to share) is the activity of conveying information
through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech,
visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.
The
communication process is the guide toward realizing effective communication. It
is through the communication process that the sharing of a common meaning
between the sender and the receiver takes place. Individuals that follow the
communication process will have the opportunity to become more productive in
every aspect of their profession. Effective communication leads to
understanding.
The
communication process is made up of four key components. Those components
include encoding, medium of transmission, decoding, and feedback. There are
also two other factors in the process, and those two factors are present in the
form of the sender and the receiver. The communication process begins with the
sender and ends with the receiver.
Communication
requires a sender, a message, and a recipient, although the receiver doesn't have
to be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of
communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and
space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of
communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the
receiver has understood the message of the sender.