We know that communication forms a major activity of our life in our day to day working. If you are working at home, you are communicating with your family members or help.
While at your workplace, you communicate with your bosses, colleagues or reporters. While in social functions, you communicate with friends and acquaintances. Above all to know yourself and understand fully well you talk to yourself.
Now let us understand what are the various types of verbal communications?
- Conversation: It can take place in all situations. It takes place between three people. If there are more than three people, the conversation becomes a discussion. The conversation are usually polite and informal. They are usually short in duration and are conflict free. The conversations help you build relation and/or to maintain them. Nowadays conversations can also take place virtually on mobile or applications like WhatsApp, Zoom, etc.
- Discussions: Discussions is different from conversation. Discussions are more formal, take longer involve more people, but happens less frequently than conversations. Earlier these represented face to face meetings, but technology has empowered people to hold discussions virtually. These discussions can be very fruitful provided people people stick to the topic of discussion. They avoid arguments. Some points are not repeated by many people. There should be genuine effort to draw some conclusions during the discussions.
- Debate: A debate is essentially an argument and counter argument. One may say the advocates during their pleadings argue which forms a debate. The judge listens to both the parties and declares his/her verdict. Thus the outcome is a decision about whose point of view is right. In social situations debate take place among the people and the decisions is arrived by voting. The same principle is applied to debates in parliament and other constituted platforms.
- Dialogue: A dialogue is an unusual and a rare event. It is a conversation where there is a free flow of meanings in a group and diverse views and perspectives are encouraged. Real dialogue including discarding your biases and encouraging open mind reflections. Dialogues are very creative and useful. Due to this reason these are worth using. However three conditions must be met if your dialogues are going to work.
- People must know how to suspend thier assumptions. Everyone must keep an open mind and should not speak on the basis of his/her perceived emotions.
- At whichever place people must regard each other as there colleagues.
- It is helpful to have a facilitator to hold the context of the dialogue and conduct the same effectively.
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