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soft-skills
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1. The process of internalizing and heeding information.
Ambiguous Words
Utilitarian - moral rights - justice - practical
Listening
Monochromatic and Polychromatic
2. Steps in Communication
Visual Communication
Verbal Communication
Stimulus - motivation - encoding - code - decoding - feedback
Telecommunication
3. Most common conflict resolution for closed style communicators.
Expectations - teamwork - trust
Hearing
Avoiding
Emblem
4. Culture found in the east.
Communication Ethics
Closed - blind - hidden - open
Collectivist
Utilitarian - moral rights - justice - practical
5. Intentional movements/gestures that add to or clarify verbal meaning.
Illustrators
Avoiding
Regulators
Dealing with Personal barriers
6. Good: productivity (w/o people) - reserved - laissez-faire. Bad: too focused on security - difficult to know - poor communicators.
Traditional - human relations - human resources - systems/contingency - transformational
Cave Paintings
Closed Style
Dealing with Personal barriers
7. Provide fair and equal treatment for all individuals and groups involved.
Personal Space
Active Listening
Practical
Justice
8. Easy to communicate to society because the typical person would find them acceptable.
Blind Style
Practical
Utilitarian
Expectations - teamwork - trust
9. Major models of communication
Traditional - human relations - human resources - systems/contingency - transformational
Affective Conflict
Expectations - teamwork - trust
Polychromatic View
10. Protect people's fundamental or inalienable rights. (the golden rule)
Writing
Moral Rights
70% of all communication
Cave Paintings
11. All intentional and unintentional messages that are not written - spoken - or sounded.
Ambiguous Words
Non-verbal communication
Polychromatic View
Cognitive Conflict
12. Habitual movements/gestures used in times of stress.
verbal - vocal - visual
Feedback and disclosure
Social Distance
Adaptors
13. Difference between petroglyphs and pictograms.
Ambiguous Words
Listening
Petroglyphs show pictures and pictograms tell stories.
Hidden Style
14. 4 styles of communication
Illustrators
Closed - blind - hidden - open
Verbal Communication
Communication Ethics
15. Develop your own opinion about the message (process)
Illustrators
Evaluating
Expectations - teamwork - trust
70% of all communication
16. Views of time.
Monochromatic and Polychromatic
Communication
Dealing with Gender Barrier
Pictograms
17. Symbols for numbers led to phonetic symbols which led to the 1st alphabet.
Traditional - human relations - human resources - systems/contingency - transformational
Writing
Monochromatic View
High Context
18. The interpersonal transmission of information - knowledge - stories - etc. from one person to another - for numerous generations.
Speech
Communication
Open Style
Formal
19. Choosing which stimulus to focus on (intake)
Expectations - teamwork - trust
Visual Communication
Feedback and disclosure
Sensing
20. Types of conflict resolution.
Traditional - human relations - human resources - systems/contingency - transformational
Dealing with Semantic Barrier
Formal
Avoiding - accommodating - compromising - competing - collaborating.
21. Understanding listening stages
Monochromatic View
Affective Conflict
Sensing - interpreting - evaluating - responding - remembering.
Petroglyphs show pictures and pictograms tell stories.
22. The rules are not clearly stated and neither are the reasons - but everyone tends to follow the same rules anyway.
Collaborating
Expectations - teamwork - trust
Informal
Individualistic vs. collectivist - low context vs. high contex
23. Based on ideas - objective. Ideas are separate than the person.
Remembering
Frame of reference and cultural background
Cognitive Conflict
Non-verbal communication
24. Your communication style is based on these two things.
Frame of reference and cultural background
Feedback and disclosure
Evaluating
Competing
25. Four barriers that keep us from listening.
Affective Conflict
Sensing - interpreting - evaluating - responding - remembering.
Closed - blind - hidden - open
Physical - Personal - Semantic - Gender
26. Moral principles that guide our judgements about the good and bad - right and wrong - of communication.
Communication Ethics
Avoiding
Regulators
Pictograms
27. Necessity - relativity - rationalization - self-deception - end goal - greed
Unethical traps
Practical
Pictograms
Frame of reference and cultural background
28. The process of people sharing thoughts - ideas - and feeling with each other in commonly understandable ways.
Communication
Eye contact
Blind Style
Stimulus - motivation - encoding - code - decoding - feedback
29. Most common conflict resolution for blind style communicators.
Competing
Frame of reference and cultural background
Adaptors
Pictograms
30. Ways to maintain effective relationships.
Physical Enviroment
Expectations - teamwork - trust
Individualistic
Low Context
31. Decide which parts of the message are worth remembering.
Speech
Adaptors
Practical
Remembering
32. Overcome them and keep them in check.
Traditional - human relations - human resources - systems/contingency - transformational
Ideograms
Dealing with Personal barriers
Moral Rights
33. The act of receiving information through the ears.
Evaluating
Monochromatic View
Hearing
Communication
34. Distinct ways of communicating in which we feel most comfortable - that affect relationships with bosses - co-workers - teams - and customers.
Communication Style
Telecommunication
Cognitive Conflict
Listening
35. Assign meaning to the message (internalize)
Interpreting
verbal - vocal - visual
Stimulus - motivation - encoding - code - decoding - feedback
Petroglyphs
36. Began in 10 - 000 B.C.- Carvings in rock surfaces and stone arrangements.
Writing
Emblem - illustrators - regulators - adaptors
Petroglyphs
Feedback and disclosure
37. 2 types of cultural differences
Adaptors
Hearing
Closed - blind - hidden - open
Individualistic vs. collectivist - low context vs. high contex
38. Began in 30 - 000 B.C. and used by hunters and gatherers and for religious reasons.
Monochromatic View
Feedback and disclosure
Cave Paintings
Active Listening
39. Types of communication
Dealing with Personal barriers
verbal - vocal - visual
High Context
Individualistic vs. collectivist - low context vs. high contex
40. Rules and reasons for communication - known and easily stated.
Hearing
Technical
Feedback and disclosure
Visual Communication
41. Ethical Rules
Monochromatic View
Communication
Utilitarian - moral rights - justice - practical
Public Distance
42. Depends on the sender; words matter.
Low Context
Justice
Open Style
Intimate Space
43. Written or spoken word
Communication
Moral Rights
Eye contact
Verbal Communication
44. Types of frame of reference.
Technical - formal - informal
Cognitive Conflict
Physical - Personal - Semantic - Gender
Ambiguous Words
45. Universal - cross cultural non-verbal communication.
Dealing with Semantic Barrier
High Context
Facial expressions
Physical - Personal - Semantic - Gender
46. Increase our understanding and relate to the other sex differently.
Emblem
Dealing with Gender Barrier
Monochromatic and Polychromatic
Cave Paintings
47. Clarify meanings and sustaining conversation.
Open Style
Eye contact
Dealing with Semantic Barrier
Responding
48. Create the greatest good for the greatest amount of people
Competing
Dealing with Physical barriers
Public Distance
Utilitarian
49. 2nd choice conflict resolution for all types of communicators.
Listening
Compromising
Monochromatic and Polychromatic
verbal - vocal - visual
50. Intentional movements/gestures with a specific meaning.
Closed - blind - hidden - open
Technical
Collectivist
Emblem
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