The four challenges of Communication and how to overcome them ✔✔Effective communication
requires significant intellectual and psychological
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Not everyone we encounter will appreciate the value of communication.
We may over-rely on digitally mediated communication.
We live in a diverse world where intercultural understanding can be difficult
The Linear Model of Communication ✔✔The linear model of communication reveals the basic
components of a simple exchange between two people. It illustrates a straightforward process in
which an individual communicator transmits a message to a receiving communicator.
The Transactional Model of Communication ✔✔This more detailed, realistic model of
communication illustrates how the sender and the receiver develop, share, shape, and reshape ideas
at the same time.
The three elements of the perception process ✔✔Selection , interpretation , organization
Individualism vs. Collectivism ✔✔A culture that values individualism values people who are
assertive and speak for themselves, independent, and not reliant on others to any great extent.
Individualists tend to remain somewhat emotionally disconnected or distant from others.
collectivism value their membership in their particular in-group to such an extent that they place a
greater importance on their role within the group than their role as an individual.
High context vs. low context ✔✔When communicators require explicit or clear verbal messages
to understand a message, we refer to this as a low-context orientation to communication
, high-context communicators will rely more on nonverbal communication than straightforward
verbal messages.
High power distance vs. low power distance ✔✔place a great deal of value on social rank and the
status associated with certain occupations or political offices. These cultures are said to have a
high power distance orientation.
In low power distance cultures, such as those indicative of Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain,
Germany, Canada, and the United States (Samovar et al., 2009), people tend to communicate in
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