What Is Communication Skill

Many persons have the opportunity of talking in public, no matter if it’s about a discussion in family, a business meeting or sustain an essay in front of 200 people. But, talking in public it’s not considered an opportunity by all people. On the contrary, lots of persons that must sustain a public presentation are scared about this thought. People make presentations daily even if they talk five minutes with their manager or two hours with more than 100 people. The presentation has an important role in almost all domains of activity. Through their light, the other appreciates the efficiency. The manner of behavior when it’s sustained a presentation speaks volumes not only about expositor and his attitude for work but also about his level of knowledge upon the treated subject. Every business depends very much on communication skills of those involved.

Communication skills are very important not only for information, illustrating, deciding, discussing but also for enthuse, for convince, asking, incentivizing,
For realizing a good presentation you must know some things:
-the importance of creating a favorable ambiance and approaching a certain attitude;
-the character of audience and the manner you must adapt the style of presenting;
-A detailed knowledge of your subject like: statistic data, charts, audio-visual apparatus;
-a professional approaching regarding the use of audio-visual apparatus;
-the importance of using oratorical techniques and also having an organized and controlled language for expressing your messages in a clear pithy manner.


Before realizing a presentation, the expositor must evaluate his ability of making a good presentation and he’ll observe his force in making it. This is also a manner of becoming more efficient as human being too. A successful presentation supposes huge psychological results. This one can release other resources of human potential.
An expositor should ask his self: “Can I truly be a dynamic speaker?” If his answer will be: “You cannot sustain a good presentation” this it will happen. This message it’s transmitted because of expositor’s inner space but also because the auditorium.
But maybe, despite the fact all the presentation were truly successful, the expositor ask his self: “I could do better?” Of course, always you can touch  new parameter of impact but it supposes assuming some risks. As A. Clarke said: “The only way to discover the extent possible is to go beyond them to the impossible.”
For making a good presentation, the expositor must:
-have the belief this thing it’s truly possible;
-know he’s eligible
-want to have a prestigious place;
-make it attainable.


But, trying to approach another problem and convince you in trying to improve your communication skills, let me tell you that an efficient communication it's not expected just when present a essay but also lots of work's domain started to hire people with amazing communication skills. In fact, it's truly easy to become a gorgeous speaker. Few courses or some repetitions in front of the mirror surely can help you in obtaining comunication skills.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: types of communication

What Is Nonverbal Communication

Nonverbal communication it’s an essential component of daily life. It can be an interview we have to go, or a speech we must sustain, a discussion we have or a conversation that apply for lot of auto control, the nonverbal communication it’s the factor our success it’s sometimes hanging on. The explanation it’s simple because an interlocutor catches in his mind just a part from the amount of messages delivered by the emitter: 7% are verbal, 38% are nonverbal and 55% are nonverbal. On the other side, the axiom of nonverbal communication relieves this type of communication has biggest relevance than paraverbal and verbal signals and here I am talking about voice variety, accent and tone. This axiom expresses the following thing: “When that you say it’s not in concordance with what you do, the interlocutor will believe what he see meaning your body nonverbal signals.”

The nonverbal communication and here I’d like to approach other very important problem-body language has three components: pantomime, eye contact and gesticulation.
-Pantomime means all the appearances we can observe on a person’s face: his head’s movements, eye contact, the orientation of his look and his smile. In what regards his look, for creating a communication relationship we must keep the eye contact like 60%-70% from time.
Also, there are many types of looks: official, intimate, on a side including also a smile (meaning interest), including a frown (meaning hostility). When we stop keeping the eye contact and we close our eyes we indicate that we’d like to finish the interaction.
-Gesticulation means hand language or hand skills regarding the speed of moving them, the tension level, their pose, our manner of exposing our fingers, the distance between hands and body. Knowing decoding their meaning the success can be on our side.
Also, the pose of our hands can indicate uncounted hints upon somebody’s mood.



  • Open, relaxed hands indicate a positive attitude, an invitation to sincerity ;

  • Crossed arms indicate repudiation ;

  • Arms held back indicate concern ;

  • When the listener touches his chain means that he appraise in positive manner those said by the emitter;

  • Massing the back head indicates a stew feeling ;

  • Sustaining the chain indicates boredom;

  • Playing with the pen indicates impatience;

  • Fractioning the palms indicates anticipation.


The posture and the orientation of our body are also very important because they indicate the people’s mood.

  • Leg upon  the leg indicates disbelief;

  • Crossed arms indicates that the interlocutor is totally uninterested about what you say;

  • Legs over chair indicates a portly bossy attitude;

  • But, when the legs are crossed but the body’s pose it’s inclined to the interlocutor, this indicates understanding and cooperation;

  • A easy body’s inclination indicates interest ;

  • Body lean backwards indicates absence of interest.



Knowing this information about nonverbal communication and body language can help us in touching more easily our discussion goals, our prelection targets and that one who fathoms the mysteries of nonverbal communication for sure will have much success in all he had proposed.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: types of communication

What Is Written Communication

Communication it’s a fundamental characteristic of existence. All managerial functions are effectuated helped by communication, like a process of understanding between people through transfer of information. First form of writing was pictography. During time, it had improved and transformed in scripture with alphabet letters. The writing and the communication form one and the same historical-dialectical process, influenced by the change and development of material and social life conditions. The written language it’s one of the most important and revolutionary conquers owned by people in the process of work and also in the conditions of living in a society. It plays a special role in keeping and expending the science and the culture in realizing social rapports. The communication didn’t stand as simple communication of news between people. It always developed once with the development of relationships between persons, once with society’s development.

The written communication has lots of forms: the letter, the content of a letter, rapport, essays, situations and processes. The written communication means also the total of all written communications which intercede in a judicial person’s activities regarding his interests and relations.  The written communication of a judicial or physical person it’s a typewriting paper like: application, address, offers, telegram, complaint and so on. We use written communication when oral communication it’s not possible, when there is no other way of communicating and the written communication it’s the most convenient.


But always, it’s necessary the existence of a written form. For physical persons, the written communication it’s an occasional activity. For State bodies, institutions and all the other foundations, the communication it’s a continue activity, a work method, a modality of solving lots of problems. The correspondence made possible new relations in politic life, in commercial activity, in cultural world and also in quotidian existence. The correspondence respect a certain protocol and suppose as for emitter but also for receiver, the knowledge and the respect of some rules. It supposes also privacy. The written communication role in commercial activities of the society infuses the definition of correspondence but also its importance.


The correspondence it’s a written communication between two persons, institutions, received letters, send by an institutions, organism or person. This form of written communication it’s very important because it plays a big role in the activity of commercial societies. For approaching other problem of written communication, I’ll talk in the following lines about some examples of written communication technology: use of phrases with average length (15-20 words), of centered paragraphs for a single idea, of correct words, avoiding common expressing and bootless words.  The written communication possesses a great number of advantages with should cater for like it’s durability in rapport with oral communication and also a text can be seen or read by many persons.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: types of communication

What Is Communication

Communication is an important process in everybody’s life. I certainly state that communication is a vital part of our life and this article it’s supposed to answer to a very frequent question: “What is communication?” In the following lines I’ll offer you some information about communication but also about the science that study the process of communication. A very simple definition of communication:
“Communication it’s an entirety of actions which have in common the information’s transmission as messages, news, signs of symbolic gestures, written texts and so in, between two persons, called interlocutors, or, more formally, emitter and receiver. It’s very important not confusing the interlocutors with interconnections called radio’s emitter and receiver which are used in communication at distance=telecommunications.

The communication between peoples it’s based on a language exactly like technique communications in Math or Information science. The language it’s a system of speaking which use a certain internal system of formula of communication. The speech and the spoken language are absolute elements in communication because, through them we can transmit to others a social and emotional communication, and these developing in a different manner being involved the cultural level of the partners. This transmission of information it’s usually produced in an acoustic form (the speech) but there are also other forms like that written, that with electric or optic signals and so on. During the act of speaking, communication it’s not effectuated just through words but also through voice variety, breath’s localization and ampleness, epidermis color variety (especial facial color) and also through our attitude.


For example, for understanding a message, usually, the most important it’s interlocutor’s behavior: passive, aggressive, affirmative. Philology it’s the science which study the verbal intercommunication but also the vocabulary and grammar’s limits.  There are lots of definitions for speech process and following lines contain some of them. Edward Sapir (1921), an American linguist, defines the speech process as a characteristic of every person, not being produced by instinct. The speech it’s a manner or expressing and transmitting your thought, feelings, vibes and desires through a system of symbols discovered and invented by people. Ferdinand Saussure, a Swiss linguist, names the communication’s language a connection between the emitted sounds and impressions or imagines unlatched by them in the imagination of receiver interlocutor.


Another form of communication it’s the communication with the thought. This one it’s made through sagittal fibers of the brain. It’s allowed to have two free fibers, one regarding religion and the other for thinking. Any thought outer of the brain it’s monitoring thought. Every spirit can communicate with other spirits in any type of body, the majority communicate without knowing. The bonds are doing alone when you think at somebody, you imagine a discussion, an action, receiving as answer an action from her, and it’s about an allowed monitoring communication with thought. Right in this manner you can add or change knowledge about organs, extremities, you can copy the DNA; you can charge in your brain every knowledge that interests you. Hope that all these lines help you in understanding what communication is about.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: types of communication

What Is Cyber Communication

Another form of communication but very important too it’s the cybernetic or better said the cyber communication. This word it’s from Greek vocabulary “kybernetykos” meaning governance or ruling. The cybernetic it’s the science which study the nature of bonds, connections, orders and the process of adjustment in living organisms and technique systems regarding the formal analogies.

In few words, the cybernetic studies the aspects which regards the communication process and adjustment in biologic, technique, social and economic systems. But, if somebody asks you “What is cyber communication?” you can give him a very short but correct answer”: cyber communication means communication through systems because cybernetic it’s the system’s ruling science.
But, for giving you an ample answer to the question “What is cyber communication?” I’ll offer you a short story of cybernetic. The bases of cybernetic as science were implemented by the American savant (German of origin) Norbert Wiener in 1948. He published an essay called “Cybernetics, Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine”. Norbert Wiener has also a predecessor of cybernetic. I am talking about the Romanian savant Stefan Odobleja (1902-1978) who published in 1938 an essay called “La psychologie consonantique”. In that essay, Odobleja approached lots of problems regarding the adjustment and the communication in alive systems.



It’s very important of elevating that Cybernetic states the similarity in what regards the adjustment and the communication (at conceptual level) in all the categories of systems: biology, technique, economic and social too. Nowadays, diversified categories of systems regarding cybernetics’ departments had devolved and I’ll name some of them:
-The cybernetic of biologic systems;
-The cybernetic of technique systems;
-The cybernetic of economic systems;
-The cybernetic of social systems and so on.
According to cybernetic science, the communication between two people or between groups it’s like a device of communication between apparatus able to transmit and decode (to interpret) orders. Any system and here I am talking about apparatus, organism, foundation it’s like a black box featured with an in-put and an out-put and possesses a converting function which allows the anticipation of the out-put going from the in-put. Any change brought to an element from this system can affect all the others.



The feed-back has a very important role in this cybernetic system. The feed-back it’s the converse connection from a communication system which includes the process of adjustment. The adjustment allows the system to adapt to the changes from context. In this way, the source can answer and also it can adapt to the information received about the results of delivered messages and this is how it’s maintained the system’s equilibrium. The equilibrium of system it’s called homeostasis- the organism’s property of maintaining the constants of internal environment in closer limits.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: types of communication

What Is Oral Communication

The most studied type of communication, the verbal communication, has two forms: oral and written. This article it’s supposed to answer to a very simple question” What is oral communication?” and the answer it’s also very simple. Oral communication it’s supposed of being the message understood and it’s oral expressing. There are lots of speakers who simply impress us. The fascination doesn’t come just from the message’s content but especially from the manner of communicating it. In these situations, we are in the presenece of „two languages” For giving an ample answer to the question: “What is oral communication?” I’ll offer you in this article all the oral communication’s forms and I’ll start with the:
-Monologue: it’s a communication’s form in which the emitter doesn’t involve a receiver but there it’s a feedback without existing a certain public;

-Conference : a classical conference suppose a direct public addressing in which that who sustain the conference avoids in expressing his own judgments but presents with fidelity the judgments of the authors he’s talking about;
-Announcement or the display it’s a form of speech in which the emitter presents in direct and explicit manner his personality, his opinions and his value’s system and also the emitter transmits his own opinions regarding a certain subject;
-Prelection: it’s a communicative situation in which the public that assist at prelection has the possibility of organizing the information, the facts, and events antecedent to this type of communication. The prelection supposes a highest level of tackling especially that the speaker are not totally informed about the subject;
-Narration: it’s a communication’s type in which an emitter makes a decode, a revealing or a presentation using a type of language or another regarding an objective reality and general facts. The emitter has no part of involving in the presented actions avoiding the subjectivism and personalism;


-Speech: it’s the most claiming and highest level form of monologue which suppose emitting, explaining and sustaining some points of view, some inedited ideas which express a moment or a very important part in that domain’s ascent;
-Toast: it’s a  pronunciation interceded because a very special event counting just three or four minutes invoking the feelings of those presents;
-Allocution it’s a speaker’s interceding in a communicational circumstance expressing a point of view and counts just ten minutes;
-Account it’s the easiest form of communication using the most diversified manners invoking imagination, feelings, antecedent knowledge, the emitter’s personalism. In this way, the emitter marks the form and the style of the delivered messages;
-Defense it’s almost the same with the allocution but presents a characteristic: that who sustain a defence presents and explain his own point of view;
-Homily: it’s an addressing which eliminates any possibility of critic manifestation or contra-argumentation; it’s specific for powerful hierarchies institutions;


-Interference: it’s a situation in which the emitter sustains the ideas of other partner in a certain discussion this one agreeing with the transmitted message;
-Dialogue: it’s a communication in which the messages are changed between members everyone becoming emitter and receiver. In this way they change information, all the members being equal with each other;
-Debate: it’s a moderated communication’s form dedicated to clarification and throughness of some ideas.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: Types of dialogues

Reading Nonverbal Communication

Did you observe the positive head’s signals while communicating with the others at your work, on the street or in family? But did you observe the negative signals? You truly should accord to yourself some time for thinking what impression left you a person that smiled with her eyes that used a trustful handshake and also respected your personal space. Did you catch it? Let’s do the same exercise but on the other extreme. Imagine a person that used such a powerful handshake that almost hurt you, a person that smiled with his mouth while his eyes were telling another story. What impression did he create to you? You must be convinced that reading nonverbal communication regarding the positive but also the negative signals it’s not an easy task.

It says that women are more sensitive than men, they are able to observe the body language very fast and also they read all nonverbal signals almost involuntary. All in a correct way. There is a very important thing we must catch in our minds no matter if you’re a man or a woman. You must avoid reading nonverbal communication for example interpreting some gestures when they are out of the initially circumstance. Each individual gesture it’s followed by others that help us in correctly decoding the meaning of the message delivered through body language.


Why we must smile? There is an old but funny quote that says: “Who doesn’t know to smile better not opening a store.” The smile it’s one of positive nonverbal signals that a person can percept it even when he’s somewhere at 90 meters. The smile it’s also the most used affection display. Don’t forget about the smile’s importance in any situation you’d be. The science proved that as much you smile as many positive reactions you’ll get. But, let’s talk now about other situation in which reading nonverbal communication it’s also extremely important. Did you know that in an ugly conflict, at your work place or right in the street, a person can have an aggressive body language without thinking at it? This thing happens because we say 120 words per minute while thinking to others 800 words expressed through nonverbal communication. But, as a person expresses his angry, his aggressively through nonverbal signals, we also can get trained for fighting against them and also for promoting positive nonverbal signals.


You must take a commitment for yourself that you’ll dedicate all your life to learn reading nonverbal communication. You also must catch in your head that people can communicate in many ways, verbal or nonverbal. Why it’s important this commitment? Well, because decoding body language it’s a process of continuous learning. As much you train the abilities of reading body’s signals, as conscious you’ll be by their signification.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 23 2010, in the categories: types of communication

Examples Of Nonverbal Communication

First impressions truly matters. First few minutes from a hiring interview are so important and so reprover than nothing else matters. In this article I’d like to give some examples of nonverbal communication regarding business and interviews. When you must hire a new person it’s ideal to observe him and take some notes upon all the nonverbal messages that he delivers to you. In this way, you can form the first impression observing his posture, his outfit and the accessories, the personal space that he uses, the  attention he pay, the handshake, eye contact and affection displays. After observing all these, you can careful listen the answers he gives to your questions.



Here are some examples of nonverbal communication you really should know when hiring a new person: The candidate sits comfortable on the chair or quite lazy? Walks in the room with a trustful attitude? These are signs that he’s hopeful and very enthusiastic. The posture adopted by a person while walking in the room for meeting you, his possible future boss, can communicate you information about his self confidence and his abilities. A posture which is inactive and nerveless indicates carelessness and drowsiness. Look if your candidate uses a solid firm handshake. A hopeful person uses the handshake as a positive nonverbal interaction. The candidate’s handshake should convince you about his desire of making a first positive impression.


Another example of nonverbal communication it’s the costume. No matter how informal can be a work setting; a professional candidate must wear a tux at his first meeting for hiring interview. In this way, the chosen tux will communicate you how well he’ll interact and how well he’ll get understood by your clients. The chosen accessories can or cannot transmit professionalism. A brief case, a leather wallet, a pen, an attaché case can make a professional appearance and it will communicate to you that the candidate made some efforts for making a good first impression.  The clothes but also the accessories chosen by the candidate for hiring interview day are a very powerful manner of nonverbal communication and I’d like to advice you to observe all these things when you are tempted to hire that certain person. There is a ten dollar words regarding candidates’ nonverbal communication let’s say the key to candidates heart. You must hear his nonverbal behavior. A professional candidate should know to perfectly infuse his affection displays and his body language with the spoken words. The affection displays which don’t fit with the spoken words can indicate a certain stress or a lie, kind of behavior you really don’t need when hiring a new candidate.


There is also another thing to say about a candidate who’d like to be employed. If he doesn’t realize eye contact and speaks while watching a certain point he indicates a poor self confidence. A professional candidate that I’m sure you’d like to hire must have heavy-bodied affection displays emphasizing his spoken words.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 23 2010, in the categories: types of communication

Interpreting Nonverbal Communication

The knowledge about nonverbal behavior it’s more an art that gets even vivid during time, being necessary a systematic observation upon the others but also a constant effort of interpreting nonverbal communication. In fact, all that we do mean a manner of communicating. The nonverbal communication cannot be stopped and in some situations, it can betray our intentions. The solution it’s not represented by over control but by owning some basic rules. Body language it’s a universal and natural language, proper for all people. Including some little cultural differences, the body language can be identically recognized on the entire planet. Some statistics gave the following result regarding the source’s message influence upon receivers:
-words: 7%-10% from totally influence;
-voice: 10%-30% from totally influence;
-body language: 60%-80% from totally influence.

This result indicates that the way you look, your gestures, your smile, the way you’re dressed and the way you’re moving has the biggest impact upon a person’s attitude. Even the popular intelligentsia indicates this thing because some old people continue to say: “A single gesture makes more than one thousand of words.” A person’s way of speaking it’s three times more important than the used words. In specialized literature, there are five categories of interpreting nonverbal communication:


-The attitude : that a person it’s adopting in a certain moment, the movements that change and influence the body’s pose like crossed legs or swing on toes and feet.
-The pantomime: means all the signs and occurrences that we can observe on the other face. Pantomime it’s also called affection displays.
-The gesticulation: means all the hands gestures called also “hands language” like opening or closing a door, chocking the cigarette and so on.
-The distance: means the distance we keep from the others (sometimes the kept distance between a person and animals or objects), spontaneous movements that change the distance from an objective.
-The voice variety: means all the aspects manifesting during speaking time like: pauses, rhythm of speaking, tone and so on. There are also some loudly manifestation but in totally absence of verbal content like: sigh or smack.


-The emotions are affective moods of short term that indicates a specific of person’s relationships with an object or a situation. In conclusion, the emotions have a situational characteristic. They can be unleashed by real or shadowy  circumstance. Emotional affections can be expressed not just through affection displays or gestures but also thorough look, eye contact that express the person’s mental mood. The eye, as sense organ, has an important role in emotional manifestation. Through its functions, the eye expresses the affective mood and the mutuality that it’s presents everywhere. The human’s affection display it’s enough for ascertaining interpersonal relationships.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 23 2010, in the categories: types of communication

Culture In Nonverbal Communication

The nonverbal communication it’s the communication used for expressing sensations, emotions, attitudes but without words. Even without words, we communicate through what we do: the posture of our body, the way we walk, the way we rise up our shoulders, our gestures, our clothes, the way we drive a car or the way we stay at office. All these things have a signification and also they communicate an idea. The sense of nonverbal communication depends of train of events but also it depends of relationships between people. The nonverbal communication is very important regarding the social aspect. Usually, the verbal statements are influenced by a chain of factors like: fear of not offending or upsetting somebody, a desire of getting into serious business, social pressure that sometimes forces us of telling we agree with a certain statement even that we disagree with it and so on.

The nonverbal communication completes attests and gradates the meaning of verbal messages. Sometimes, the nonverbal communication it’s more credible than verbal communication. A great orator must own very well the verbal communication but also the nonverbal communication. The nonverbal communication it’s formed by a number of separated codes that we must learn and use it. Some nonverbal codes are universally but have the same meaning being understood in different cultures.


But, other codes have different meanings in different cultures.  In fact, culture in nonverbal communication has an important role helping us in getting to know better our interlocutor. I have some examples for you regarding culture in nonverbal communication:
-In Romania, moving the head from right to left or from left to right indicates a negation but in Bulgaria this movement indicates an affirmation. Not knowing the specific of this culture we can get wrong understood or our messages can be quite confusing.
-In Romania, moving the head up and down means “yes”, an affirmation while people from Sri Lanka express the same thing moving their head from right to left.
-to point one's finger at somebody it’s considered an impolite gesture in Romania, an offending gesture in Thailand but in SUA it’s an absolutely neutral gesture.
-Using an excessive gesture it’s considered us being impolite in many countries but, on the other part, hand’s gestures create Italians prestige of passionate nation.
-The Americans have an interesting way of crossing their legs using very relaxed, demonstrativeness and large movements. This manner of crossing their legs totally differs by Europeans’ manner which is more under control, carefully in the final pose.
-In every country, men gestures are different than women gestures.


-In America, a man puts his legs on the table indicating a comfortable pose or indicating his control upon the situation. In Romania, people are quite conscious regarding this gesture correlating it with formality, contest, and pressure. Sometimes, legs swing can indicate boredom, stress or impatience.

Published by communicationtype, on Apr 22 2010, in the categories: types of communication

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