Understanding Communication: Identifying Your Audience and Key Message, Lecture notes of Effective Business Communication

This document, led by prof. Sunil d’ anto, explores the concept of communication and its importance in various aspects of life. It emphasizes the significance of identifying your audience, understanding their preferences, and crafting a clear and effective message. The document also touches upon the role of communication in business and personal relationships.

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2017/2018

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Communication:
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Communication:

Demystifying the

Target Audience

Tutored by : Prof. Sunil D’ Anto

One of the new memo sheets ended up on

J. Edgar Hoover’s desk.

He disliked it immediately and wrote on the

narrow margin, ‘Watch the borders.’

For the next six weeks, it was

extremely difficult to enter the United States by

road from either Mexico

or Canada!

“Communication” origin The root of the word “communication” in Latin is communicare , which means to share, or to make common (Weekley, 1967) Communication is defined as the process of understanding and sharing meaning (Pearson & Nelson, 2000) 4

Plan needed?

  • (^) to fail to plan is to plan to fail!
  • (^) Plan, for…..  (^) Receiver / Audience  (^) Key message  (^) Channel (medium), language, tone  (^) timing  (^) (anticipated) Noise  (^) planned action on the response received  (^) Source

Finding the “Me” in “them”! In order to communicate with others, you need to know yourself, first!

Your knowledge :

What is your favorite subject?

  • (^) Communication
  • (^) Maths
  • (^) Science : Physics, Political Science
  • (^) Marketing, HR, Analytics
  • (^) English language
  • (^) Tech., C & IT, Tech Writing, Auto, Robotics
  • (^) Investments
  • (^) Health & Wellness, Vedic Philos.
  • (^) History
  • (^) F & B , FO
  • (^) Fashion design, Performing Arts

Your experience : What has been your experience in communication to date?

  • (^) Be specific
  • (^) ….

Your interests :

What do you enjoy doing?

  • (^) Observing..

Business Communication..

“ Call me hopelessly naïve, but I believe there is no

excuse for any variety of ‘business writing’ that should be crafted

any less carefully or aim any less high than a great novel or great

inaugural address. After all, we do aim—day in and day out—to

change the world via our human collectivities called enterprises.

Right ?”

  • (^) Tom Peters (referring to novelist James Baldwin that “you write in order to change the world.”