Perception and Communication

Perception is the course by which individuals interpret sensual imitations into a logical and integrated vision of their surroundings. By way of essentially founded on lacking and unsupported knowledge, perception can be biased such as stereotyping. There has been a situation where I, myself, misinterpreted the difficulty of taking up driving theory test as I was blinded with the people around me as they kept saying that it is such a common sense therefore I did not lend enough time revising. I became too confident that I was going to pass, and when the day of the exam came and found out I did not pass it, I felt shocked not realising, I was never prepared when I walked in on the test centre. After a couple of weeks, for the second time around that I booked my theory test, I was more organised and certainly planned my revision for it. I also, did not listen to other comments but concentrated on the revision materials, which gave me a better outcome at the end as I passed. I learnt a lesson from this experience that I should never listen to other people’s perception without having sufficient knowledge about something.

Appropriate communication is vital to effective doings. The approach of the way we interconnect results to how we do business and the purpose of communicating is to deliver message close to accuracy to avoid problems and conflicts in any way. From the article of “Measuring feedbacks”, it is important to make a clear statement of what is each student’s goals are in order to have one perspective to overcome the goals.  Teachers can do this by clearly issuing the aims and objectives every lecture that they do. Also, to measure whether they are on track, the lecturer can organise meetings for each individual stating where they are working at, at their phase, whether they are out of track or bound to success. The lecturers can then identify the students, who need further help so then extra classes can be offered. Secondly, fourth point of which is to consider channels. At present, technology has updated therefore, universities needs to hang on with the new trends. As having newer facilities, gives students the urge to use these facilities to finish off what they are required to do. Electronics also enables students and lecturers to work more efficiently which can also save them time and money. Emails and the use of blackboard are good examples of type of communications that can be used by the lecturers to transfer their messages when something comes up urgently. This then gives an advantage to the university, not having to send letters or see them one by one just to send a quick message. Lastly, out of every point, in my view, it is always apt to keep the personal touch as for point five. This includes verbal and nonverbal doings.  Nonverbal communication includes body language and writing and scheduling. Its purpose is to send a message through written communication and visual presentations. Lecturers need to have a neat writing to be understood by the students and prepare their PowerPoint presentations to be appealing and informative at the same time. This is crucial, especially for students at present, as they are easily distracted of other stuff, therefore, it is the lecturer’s job to make them interested and concentrated at the lecture.  Verbal doings includes the way the lecturer talks and the way he/she present her/himself.  The lecturer needs to have a clear voice to be understood by everyone. She/he also needs to make sure to use both democratic and autocratic way of lecturing at appropriate situations. In addition to this, it is important, to look as respectful and always arrive on time to act as a role model of the students.

In conclusion, perception and communication are part of our lives that can give two outcomes, either failure or success, depending if right perception and communication has been employed. In my viewpoint, perception should not be used to judge something straightaway as it is only your first thoughts without considering its surroundings.  It is important to choose the right communication in order to project the actual message that a person is trying to send across.

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