Saturday 22 February 2020

Complications of communications...

The challenge with communication is that when one person speaks to the other person the listener is free to derive any convinient meaning of the words spoken by the speaker in the context considered or out of context.

The speaker has whatsoever no control on the internal juggarly of assigning meaning to his words happening in the listeners mind.

The speaker can only assert that the context in which the words are spoken give a specific clear meaning to the listener by choice of his words , tone and expressions .

Most of the time it depends upon the relationship of the speaker with listener or the image of the speaker or impressions on the listener which make an impact on the exercise of giving assigning meaning to the speakers words.

So you see how vulnerable the communicator is when he/ she is communicating to unknown person or group of people who dont know him/her.

Hence many times the leaders who are the speakers or people in authority force people to derive a desired meaning of their words and communication irrespective of what message their words tone and expressions authentically communicate.

In this case temporarily the speaker feels or gets a feeling that he has communicated clearly or successfully and the audience has come into his/ her fold . But in reality the audience fakes it to give a false and favourable response to the speaker for surviving or staying away from unrest .

By conforming to the speaker against their internal will due to authority of the speaker internally the audience has created
a duality, a confusion, a state of indecisiveness which will never ever help the audience to implement the message of speaker effectively in long term as is the objective of the speaker .

So the communicator speaker cannot be successful by forcing the meaning of speech on the listener or audience at the same time if speaker allows freedom to choose the meaning then the audience or listener goes haywire in contemplating what you want to say or convey .

The only way out is to respect the freedom of the interpretation of the listener or audience and slowly , steadily seek cooperation by probing the understanding and nudging them to the desired meaning you want to convey with their participation and will.

You see we and our perceptions about everything are so unique that communication between 2 human beings without a communion is impossible.

We have individual meanings and perceptions unique to us about everything .

So when we communicate we express our ideas with our own perceptions and we have no idea whatsoever about percetion of other person about the same ideas.

Till such time we dont align to other persons perception or help that person to align to yours the communication will be always flawed , patial or fake .

Unless the listener or audience doesn't understand the meaning of speakers speech as desired by the speaker on their own with their whole heart and Will,

it is impossible to get the desired action from the audience or listener on the message.