Communications

As we’ve talked for some time about various communication schemes, ways for improving communications, communication barriers, and personality types, we can summarize the major aspects of what a good project manager has to know in order to be efficient communicating with the team. First of all, it is important to remember that communication skills are [...]

The knowledge of the personality types of the members of a group of people who are communicating plays an important role in providing efficient communications. Determining personality type is a widely used technique, and there are a number of classifications used. Needless to say, this technique becomes extremely important in an environment where many people [...]

When certain information is being transmitted to the receiver, it has to pass through a process of decoding and filtering. Only then can it be received and interpreted by the receiver. Unfortunately, there are a number of factors that create problems in the decoding and filtering process. These are known collectively as communication barriers. A [...]

It is a well-known fact that 80 percent of a manager’s time is spent communicating. It is a somewhat less-known fact that the normal efficiency of communicating is pretty low: right after the information is heard by a person, he can remember only 50 percent of it, and after a month the retention falls to [...]

Communications between persons are carried out verbally and nonverbally. Verbal communications are in the form of oral and written messages. Oral communications can be carried out through dialogues, meetings, negotiations, presentations, or telephone conversations where the main part of the information is transmitted through vocal signals. Written communications can be realized through documents in the [...]

Communications is the art of transmitting an idea from the mind of one person to the mind of another, with understanding. Understanding is the key word. A classical communications model, shown in CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION MODEL, consists of a sender who is developing, coding, and transferring information through certain message channels to a receiver. When the [...]