Communication Skills

Issacs model of communication

• Debate: Verbal Boxing
• Dialectic: No one is on a side, uncover the truth
  • Define a thesis and antithesis and reconcile the two
• Generative Dialogue:

Communications theory

• communication is the exchange of ideas through a common set of symbols
• WHenever information is gained and uncertainty is reduced, communication has taken place.
• We don't always know if we've correctly transmitted or received information.
  • How do we ensure that the way that we transfer information is correct?
  • Did we conjure the correct pictures?