I have studied the subject of communications for years. It is funny that many people us the words communications and communication interchangeably. You might ask yourself– what is the difference of a simple “s” at the end? Well there is a lot of difference. <\/p>\n
To begin with, TRUE<\/strong> communications occur only when what is being expressed by the sender is clearly understood by the receiver. If someone says s\/he is a good communicator but most people cannot follow\/understand what the individual has written or said– the fact of the matter is– that person is either not a good communicator or has failed in his\/her communications attempt. <\/p>\n An easy time to observe this is during negotiation situations– or times of hostility– when people are tense OR<\/strong> upset with one another. During such times, it is easy to observe the communications process OR<\/strong> lack thereof it quite clearly. <\/p>\n In these times, one party tends to think the vantage point s\/he is coming from is “what is right” and that the other person\/parties point of view “is wrong”. <\/p>\n When this begins to happen– one way and stifled COMMUNICATION<\/strong> is occurring instead of the flowing two way stream of communications. <\/p>\n One of the best skills that a great \u201ccommunications person\u201d has is solid listening skills. This skill is oftentimes overlooked but, as the old saying goes, we have “two ears and one mouth” for a reason. <\/p>\n So for true and successful communications to occur– all parties– the sender and receiver… must be willing to listen, willing to hear the other side out, willing to clearly explain a message that can be understood, and lastly if all else fails… be willing to “AGREE TO DISAGREE– AGREEABLY<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n What differences do you observe between communication and communications?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have studied the subject of communications for years. It is funny that many people us the words communications and communication interchangeably. You might ask yourself– what is the difference of a simple “s” at the end? Well there is a lot of difference. To begin with, TRUE communications occur only when what is being … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,24],"tags":[98,123,124],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-ryan-sauers","tag-communication","tag-communications","tag-difference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}