Interpersonal

Communication

INTERPERSONAL
COMMUNICATION
Interpersonal communication is that kind of
communication which takes place within or among
more than two people with use of different mediums
of communication. With betterment and advancement
of the communication mediums, it has brought the
community more closely and as a family.

INTERPERSONAL
COMMUNICATION
Is a person-to-person communication with messages
that are focused on individual interests or needs. It
focuses on the study of verbal and nonverbal
interactions in relationships .

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COMMUNICATION
Relationship:
For forming a proper communication, both models of
communicator should have a conducive relationship to each other,
to communicate, understand and accept for any kind of responses.

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COMMUNICATION
Roles:
Each and every communicator plays distinctive roles in forming a
relation between them. However, there is another definition of
communication as who says what, in which channel, to whom and
with what effects. It is my personal reflection that the
communication of this definition does not reflect time and where
does it take place, more than that communication in modern era
does not merely involve talking but it is larger community or social
context.

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COMMUNICATION
ELEMENTS
The Sender - The sender transmits a message to another person.
The Message - The message is the element that is transmitted
from one person to another.
The Reciever - The reciever recieves the message from the
sender and "decode" the message and assign a particular
meaning to it. In recieving and translating the message, you
probaly considered both the verbal and nonverbal components
of the message.

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COMMUNICATION
ELEMENTS
Feedback - The process whereby recievers communicate back
to senders their understanding of the message. The reciver
may mot percieve the message. Also, feedback is a two-way
interaction rather that a monologue.
Barriers - Barriers are anything that get in the way and affect
the accuracy of the communication exchange.

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COMMUNICATION

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COMMUNICATION
Process of interpersonal communication:
The process of communication can be viewed from the four basic
components forming a proper communication including the sender
and message, the medium and the receiver. Here the noise
provides an additional component.
Here the first two components the sender and message, the
sender composes a message to persuade the receiver. The sender
encodes the message properly so as to make sure that the
message will be reflected by the receiver under proper channel.

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COMMUNICATION
Process of interpersonal communication:
The channel of communication in this model refers to the mode by
which the message is transmitted. Most familiar channels advancing in
the modernity are Radios, television and telephonic. However,
interpersonal communication is different in this regard to mass
communication since some participants may not use certain medium
and communication may take place with face-to-face way. The forth
components of the model is the receiver. The receiver is responsible to
receive the message and decode it in way that they could intelligently
response to the sources. Here the interaction of message takes place
when the receiver responses the sender after decoding properly and it
is in form of feedback, it helps to clarify the message and enhance
communication properly. It is cyclical process of communication.

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COMMUNICATION
There are different types of communications in terms of number of
participants involving:
1. Dyadic Communication
2. Group Communication
3. Public Communication

DYADIC
COMMUNICATION
Dyadic communication refers to communication between two
individuals who are responding to each other to simultaneously
influence and be influenced which is a part of a developing social
relationship.

DYADIC
COMMUNICATION
A dyad is an encounter or conversation between two persons, is
considered as the basic form of interpersonal communication.
While you're in a dyad, you must possess the following
characteristics in order to perform your work effectively and make
sound decisions:
1. Good conversational skills
2. Know how to commence and stop a conversation
3. Being able to respond to your partner's statements politely
4. Observing a give-and-take-relationship
5. Being sensitive to and aware of the presence of other parties
involved.

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COMMUNICATION
CONVERSATION
- The most common form of dyadic communication.
- It may be defined as a friendly and usual informal talk between
two people who exchange their views and ideas.
DIALOGUE
- Most personal and intimate form of dyadic communication
- It is a talk of any kind between you and your friend that brings
magic, eradicating the factors which divide or hinder
communication between the two of you.
- Dialogue is characterized as inclusive and dialogic.

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COMMUNICATION
INTERVIEW
- Is considered a two-way process sure both process where both
parties alternately talk and listen
- It is a conversation with a purpose which aims to help the
interviewee to understand and put into larger context the
interpersonal, social and cultural aspects of the environment.

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COMMUNICATION
SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
- An interview with a set of basic questions and issues asked by
the interviewer to be explored.
- Both are parties in the process of interview should observe
proper use of language, cultural or subcultural connotations and
denotative meanings of words the commodities of discourse

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COMMUNICATION
INTERVIEW TYPES
- MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEW
- Involves multiple objectives such as employment screening, creating
stories, counseling, receiving complaints and connecting.
- The interviewer in this type conducts it with the intention of producing
changes in the behavior of the respondent
- This type of interview is persuasive than coercive, supportive than
argumentative

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COMMUNICATION
STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
- Involves rapport building which is created by a warm and
positive climate which reduces anxiety and defensiveness , for it
is conducted by the interviewer to extract information and data
from the respondent in the interview
- The tone of the entire interview is usually set by what happens
in the previous moments .

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COMMUNICATION
STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
- Kinds of Interview Questions
1. Primary questions main point questions that the interview plans
ahead of time
2. Follow-up questions designed to pursue the answers given to
primary questions. More often than not, these questions come along
as the interview goes on.
3. Open questions broad questions asked to make the interviwee
provide whatever information the interviewer wants
4. Closed questions - Yes or No question
5. Leading questions phrased in a way that suggests that interviewer
has a preferred answer

GROUP
COMMUNICATION
- A group consist of small collection of people who interact with
each other usually face-to-face, over time, in order to reach
goals.
- The communicators need the same comminication skills as in a
dyadic conversation. The group communication members must
communicate well among themselves, so that they can perform
their work effectively and make good decisions.
- Interaction is the prime element in a group communication. If
there is interaction, members of the group work together and
every undertaking they will encounter will be successful.

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COMMUNICATION
Typical Arrangements:
The Face-Off
Direct eye contact does not pull this group together; rather it
tends to put members into confrontation with the individual
directly across the table. This arrangement is often used in
negotiations.

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COMMUNICATION
Typical Arrangements:
The Headman
The headman arrangement automatically focuses attention toward
one person. This member has better eye contact with all the
members than does any other. It is frequently used when one
person desires to have an authoritarian relationship in the group.

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COMMUNICATION
Typical Arrangements:
We're All in This Together
In these arrangements, members have opportunity for equal eye
contact with all members. It is best used when the group is
working on an equal basis, as did King Arthur's Knights of the
Round Table.

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COMMUNICATION
CATEGORIES OF GROUP GOALS
- INDIVIDUAL GOALS
- Task related goals focus on the purpose of individual for joining a certain
group
- Social goals more on social obligations such as getting inclusion, control
and affection of the group and its member

- GROUP GOALS
- Group goals are not products of one mind, but an offshoot of collaborated
efforts of people who have common interests and purposes for the
betterment of the group. All for one, one for all.

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COMMUNICATION
TYPES OF GROUPS
- Learning Group
- Nature/Purpose- To increase the knowledge or skill of the members
- Examples- College class, seminars, academic setting, bible study group.

- Social Group
- Nature/Purpose- To establish mutual pleasure or enjoyment
- Examples- indivuduals who are invited to a party

- Living Group
- Nature/Purpose- A cluster of individual who live near you
- Examples- Roommates, Family members

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COMMUNICATION
TYPES OF GROUPS
- Circumstancial Group
- Nature/Purpose- A collection of individual brought together by some course of
events.
- Examples- individuals who are waiting for a ride

- Living Group
- Nature/Purpose- To engage in any other type of personal growth. Members help one
another to solve problems or to ease out anxieties
- Examples- Group counseling, Marriage encounter, Training

FORMS OF GROUP
COMMUNICATION
SYMPOSIUM
- A formal meeting where several specialists deliver short
addresses on a topic and which is led by a chair or moderator.
- It is a series of brief, prepared, and uninterrupted speeches on
different aspects of a general subject.
- Speakers may range from three to six.
- A question-and-answer portion of an open forum may be
conducted after all the speeches. The open forum allows
interaction between the audience and the speakers. This is to
increase audience involvement and participation as well as to
clarify the speaker's insight and perception

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COMMUNICATION
PANEL DISCUSSION
- Another form of (small) group communication that consists of
four to eight participants who will discuss a problem or and issue
systematically or spontaneously
- A group discussion which is designed to inform the audience
about the issues or a problem or to make recommendations on
the problem being discussed.
- The panel is facilitated by a moderator
- The panelists are knowledgeable and well-versed on the topic or
theme. Panelists are usually seated in a semicircle formation
facing the audience

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COMMUNICATION
MEETINGS
- ONE-WAY MEETING
- Participants have little opportunity to interact or take part, because
the meetings are usually monopolized by supervisors. Supervisors
present information, as well as control and manage the discussion

- GIVE-AND-TAKE SESSIONS
- Do not involve supervisors; instead these involve members who have
equal status and have a chance to participate by speaking and
disagreeing with each other.

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COMMUNICATION
BUSINESS MEETINGS (Order of Business)
1. Quorum- Determine the number of persona needed for a
meeting to be valid. Postpone the meeting if there is no
quorum. The secretary will start the roll call if there is a
quorum.
2. Call to Order- the presiding officer will declare, "the meeting
will please come to order".
3. Reading of Minutes- the secretary will read aloud the minutes
of every meeting
4. Approval of Minutes- Let someone move for the approval of
the read minutes. If the motion for approval is seconded,
declare that the minutes are approved.

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COMMUNICATION
BUSINESS MEETINGS (Order of Business)
5. Unfinished Business- agenda which were not taken up in the
previous meeting could be raised for discussion.
6. New Business- the present agenda will be discussed.
7. Adjournment- if there are no other matters to be discussed, let
them meeting be adjourned as long as there is someone who
moves for adjournment and somebody seconds the motion.

PUBLIC
COMMUNICATION
- This type of communication involves a larger participants
basically forms in one way style of communication process. The
feedback of the receiver is minimal. It takes place in larger
audience and mostly takes place for entertainment and
persuasion.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
INTRAPERSONAL AND
INTRAPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
The difference is that "interpersonal" refers to relationships or
actions that take placebetween two or more people while
"intrapersonal" refers to things that go on exclusively within one
person.
"Inter" is a prefix meaning "between." That is why, in the US, we
have interstate highways. These are highways that go between
states.
We have intermediate schools in some places. These are schools that
go between grade school and high school. Similarly, we have
interpersonal relations that are between two or more people.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
INTRAPERSONAL AND
INTRAPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS
"Intra" is a prefix meaning "within." In schools, we sometimes have
intramural sports. This means that the sports are "within the walls"
of the school. They are sports played against teams from within the
same school. Similarly, we have intrapersonal issues which exist only
within one person.