THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS

SEVEN STAGES OF COMMUNICATION

PROCESS

STAGE 1. CONCEPTUALIZING

STAGE 2. ENCODING

STAGE 3. TRANSMITTING

STAGE 4: RECEIVING

STAGE 5: DECODING

STAGE 6: RESPONDING

STAGE 7: VERIFYING

Whenever you communicate something to others, you activate, organize, and evaluate these forms of knowledge that you have stocked in your brain since you began developing your personality.

STAGE 1. CONCEPTUALIZING

STAGE 2.ENCODING

You have to think of codes or symbols to embody,

signify or represent these concepts or ideas you want

to communicate.

STAGE 3. TRANSMITTING

Having decided on appropriate codes or symbols to stand for ideas you want to express to others, you think and feel you are ready to transmit or transfer them to your listeners.

STAGE 4.RECEIVING

The message or idea represented by verbal or non-verbal symbols and transmitted by the sender or listeners through his senses of hearing and seeing; the deaf or blind through his sense of touch.

STAGE 5.DECODING

This is the stage of the communication process where you decode or translate the symbols to

ordinary language that mirrors your cultural, sociological, ideological, institutional or

environmental understanding of your world.

STAGE 6.RESPONDING

Finding the symbols meaningful, you tend to react, respond, or give your feedback

to the sender or speaker.

STAGE 7.VERIFYING

To make sure that your acts of exchanging of views or ideas with other people really cater to their interests, likes, dislikes you have to verify or check the effects of your communication on them.

Following the stages of communication

process can create a good, communicatio

n.