Interpersonal Communication: Factors Influencing Perception and Communication Techniques to Check Perception

Interpersonal Communication

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
Factors influences perception.................................................................................................1
Common tendency in perception............................................................................................2
Communication technique to check perception.....................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................5
List of figures
Figure 1: Factor influencing perception.....................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Interpersonal communication is exchanging information between two or more people.
It is the process of interaction between co-worker, superiors and subordinates in varying
relational situation known as interpersonal communication at workplace. This interaction
involves four components such as sender, message, channel and receiver (Trenholm &
Jensen,2008). In this context, a case study reflecting the interpersonal communication of a
competent professional and Donnie has been referred for analysing the report. For this
purpose, various factors which influences the personal perception of competent professional
has been explained. Apart from this, different communication techniques for checking the
correctness of personal interpretation of the situation has been described and appropriate
recommendations have also been provided to avoid the misperception.
Factors influences perception
Perception is a process of interpreting something, on the basis of what a person sees
or hears in mind and use that information later to judge and give a verdict on situation,
person, group etc. (Wood, 2015). However, the perception of people depends on the situation,
mood and several other factors of the personal through which a situation belongs. It has been
explained as follows-
Figure 1: Factor influencing perception
(Source: Wood, 2015)
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