Effective Communication
Definition: An Effective Communication is a communication between two or more persons wherein the intended message is successfully delivered, received and understood.
But how can we always be sure our message is delivered and comprehended the way we intend it to be? Can communication errors between senders and receivers occur?
In 1948 Shannon and Weaver designed and developed a model to describe the effective way a sender and a receiver can communicate. They found factors which can affect the communication process. Their model deals with concepts such as the source (sender), the channel, the transmitter, the message, the decoder, the receiver etc.
By looking further into their model and research I've come up with more questions that I've originally started with.
Is 1-1 communication more affective than group mass audience communication?
How can we be sure, especially us as dancers or dance teachers that we are delivering our message the way we planned on doing it the first place?
Are we playing a primary role as senders and the receivers gain the information as they want?
I believe that communication is not a one way process. We communicate by gaining the trust of our students, we think and act all the time by observing-watching and listening in our dance environment. As dancers or teachers we communicate our ideas through visual movement, and my own opinion is that our students receive our ideas differently based on the type of learner they are... Auditory or Visual Physical or Logical.
On the one hand I think we should be adjusting the way we communicate based on our recipient, but on the other hand I think that art in general and dance more specifically, is a very approachable field that can be understood and communicated in various ways.
Having more and more questions along the way...
Would like to read your thoughts on these ideas.
Maria
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