Summary Of Tuckman's Theory Of The Communication Cycle

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Communication is how we make contact with others and it being understood. It involves people sending and receiving messages from one person to another. This could be from one person to another, over text, email or even a phone call.

How the communication cycle works:
1. A person has an idea.
2. They code their message and how they want to say it
3. They send their message to someone else
4. Another person then receives the message
5. The second person decodes the message.
6. The message is understood.

One the message has been received and understood, the cycle can repeat by the second person replying or responding. Repetitions of the communication cycle are an important part of our relationships, and occur every time we have a conversation. For many people the communication cycle will work correctly where the message is received and understood and they can carry out normal conversations or any tasks that have been set. But the communication cycle can have barriers where the message may not be received or could be misinterpreted. One of these barriers is if somebody was deaf and somebody was trying to give them a message they would not be able to receive the message because they would not be able to hear it, to overcome this we could use sign language so this means that they will be able to read what you are saying by the actions you are making and this will complete the communication cycle. …show more content…

Tuckman theories main job is to focus on how well a team tackles a task that they are set, it is an important theory for team building.

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