Communication Process

What is Communication Process or cycle?

Communication process is important because you coach, coordinate, counsel, evaluate, and supervise through this process.
The steps involved in this process are:

1)      Idea or Source:

Information exists in the mind of the sender (who is the source). This can be a concept, idea, information, or feelings.

2)      Encoding:

The source initiates a message by encoding the idea in words or symbols and sends it to a receiver.The message is the actual physical product from the source encoding.When we speak, the speech is the message. When we write, the writing is the message.

3)    The Channel    :

The channel in the communication process is the medium that the sender uses to transmit the message to the receiver. Care needs to be exercised in selecting the most effective channel for each message. 

4)      Decoding:

       It is the act of understanding messages, This is known as Decoding. When the sound waves are translated into ideas, we are taking them out of the code they are in, hence decoding. Thus, listeners and readers are often regarded as Decoders

5)      Feedback:

     By two-way communication or feedback. This feedback will tell the sender that the receiver understood the message, its level of importance, and what must be done with it.