Unit 3 Cmmunication

Communication

Communication is something that is common to everyone . Whether verbal or nonverbal , we all have to pass across information to other people Generally speaking , communication is usually between two parties , the sender and the receiver . Apart from this , two people to communicate there must be a sense of commonality between them and this might as well be the same language

As human beings , our survival depends greatly on communication . This is because we are interdependent on each other and each person has a role to play in the life of

the other person . Thus , we must communicate to ask for what we want , to sell our idea to the other person and to make request from the other party . In fact , one might as well say that the heart of human existence lies in communication . According to Pearson faulty communication causes the most problems (Pearson , 1983

There are a lot of factors that influences our communication . These factors sum up to determine the way a person communicate and how the person responds to the information that he /she gets from the sender These factors might as well be called barriers to communication and they include cultural background , noise , our perception of the receiver , our environment and the greatest among them is our personal self . In this essay , my focus would be on identifying how we stand in the way of our communication and specifically how our personal goals might stand in the way of our communication with other people...