What Organization's Will You Join?

Have you ever wondered, if there were any organizations a person can join that would help increase his or hers communication skill? If so, great. I did some research and discovered five communication organizations people can choose to join and develop public speaking, broadcasting, rhetorical, journalism and ethical communication skills. Toastmasters International  www.toastmasters.org Toastmaster’s international is an organization in which helps professionals feel comfortable in front of an audience. According to there website www.toastmasters.org there mission is to lead a movement devoted to making effective oral communication worldwide. They help men and women learn the arts of speaking, listening and thinking in which are vital skills that promote, self-actualization, enhance leadership potential, and foster human understanding. When joining this organization one will learn adequate public speaking skills in which they can use in a professional environment. A person can join this organization for a small fee and can find a chapther near ones neighborhood. When you are in the organization expect to deliver different styles of speeches such as introductory, formal, persuasive, informative and much more. The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) http://www.beaweb.org/ The BEA is an academic organization that spotlights on the electronic media. They provide a forum for issues and topics of mutual concern to educators and practitioners in which invites interaction between academicians and leaders in the industry. The BEA was established in 1955, as the Association for Professional Broadcast Education and changed their name to the BEA. They currently have close to 1,600 professors, students and media professionals as members and about 275 college and university departments and institutional members. This organizations focus on the most current thinking and development in the electronic media curriculum with emphasis on interaction between the purpose, developments, and practices of the industry and providing this information to the future professionals. The Rhetoric Society of America http://rhetoricsociety.org/aws/RSA/pt/sp/home_page The main idea behind the RSA is for its members to gather all relevant studies in regards to rhetoric. They hope to disseminate among its members, current knowledge of rhetoric, broadly construed: to identify new areas within the subject of rhetoric in which research is needed as well as to stimulate such research; to encourage experimentation in the teaching of rhetoric; to facilitate professional within its members. They also hold meetings within its members to exchange idea and findings. With these findings they also sponsor publication of the materials that deal with rhetoric. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)   http://www.aejmc.org AEJMC is a non-profit organization for more than 3,700 educators, students and practitioners from all over the world. The (AEJMC) was founded in 1912 by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer. According to there website http://www.aejmc.org, they are the oldest and largest alliance of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level. There purpose is to promote the highest standards of journalism and mass communication, education to encourage the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi cultural society in the classroom and curriculum and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice, a better informed public and wider human understanding (The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) The National Communication Association www.natcom.org This association was founded in 1914 as the National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking. The NCA has more than 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students in every state and more than 20 countries. The NCA focuses on advancing communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry. Their main audiences are scholars, teachers, and practitioner who are dedicated to fostering and promoting free and ethic communication. By Edwin H.Wealth

Essential Communication Components

There are many essential principles of communication however, not all can be covered in this one post so I will share the ones that I believe are important for business or interpersonal communication.

Some of the principles are the communication process, understanding that we are always communicating, communication technologies. Other essential principles are non-verbal communication, verbal communication, as well as upward communication, horizontal communication and downward communications in organizations.

The communication process contains the main components to make communication effective between two or more people. The communication process states that there is a sender (encoder), receiver (encoder), a message created by the sender, a channel in which the message is delivered, the environment in which can influence the communication comprehension and lastly, the feedback provided by the decoder to the encoder to create awareness to whether the message was comprehended.

Non-Verbal communication is very crucial when it comes to interpersonal communication. It is said that 70% of communication occurs non-verbally according to (Roebuck, 2006). Body language, and gestures made by an encoder or a decoder within a communication experience can share the real thoughts and feelings than the words that come out of a person’s mouth.

We are always communicating and even when one says nothing he or she still communicates. Communication does not start and stop; it is continuous, dynamic, ongoing, and cumulative (Kreps, 2011) The benefit of understanding this aspect is that one can influence people and make sure ones message is strong by using gestures, and body language in an effective manner consciously.

As a personal fitness coach for at high-end fitness facility I interact with many people every single day so I  usconstantly use the communication process. When selling personal training packages I know that my non-verbal communication such as my posture, and gestures must show that I am confident in my abilities, as well as that I am involved and truly care about my client’s fitness goals.

When some one is in front of me my goal is to influence them to invest in training and if my non-verbal communication is in congruent with my verbal communication they will pick up on that and possibly second  guess their investment decision.

What are your thoughts regarding the communication process?

Roebuck, Deborah. Improving Business Communication Skills for Ashford University, 4th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions.

Kreps L.Gary (2011). Communication in Organizations. Bridge point Education inc. San Diego California.