Communication+ Virtualteams

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Communication+ Virtualteams

First, I would like to share with the lecturers this definitions as an introduction to the topic of communication.

·         Communication - the evoking of a shared or common meaning in another person

·         Interpersonal communication – communication between two or more people in an organization

·         Communicator - the person originating the message

·         Receiver - the person receiving a message

·         Perceptual screen - a window through which we interact with people that influences the quality, accuracy, and clarity of the communication.

·         Language - the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used & understood by a group of people

·         Data - uninterpreted and unanalyzed facts

·         Information - data that have been interpreted, analyzed, & and have meaning to some user

·         Richness - the ability of a medium or channel to elicit or evoke meaning in the receiver

One-way Communications	Two-way Communications
It is a verbal expression in which one person (the emitter) sends a message to another person with no feedback or response.	A form of communication in which the transmitter and the receiver interact.

Nonverbal Communication

All elements of communication that do not involve words

Four basic types:

Proxemics - an individual’s perception & use of space

Kinesics - study of body movements, including posture

Facial & eye behavior - movements that add cues for the receiver

Paralanguage - variations in speech, such as pitch, loudness, tempo, tone, duration, laughing, & crying

Virtual teams:

Virtual teams are groups of geographically, organizationally and/or time dispersed workers brought together by information technologies to accomplish one or more organization. This is a useful way to get together with different qualities of people that are far away and have different conditions and ideas to help with a common goal even though there is a huge gap that is the distance.