All about nonverbal communication

In one-on-one interactions, nonverbal communication is extremely important. By acting as a complement to verbal communication, nonverbal cues improve the effectiveness of communication (Baack, 2017).

Kinesic cues, space, touch, appearance, artifacts, and paralanguage are some of the nonverbal cues (Baack, 2017). Nonverbal cues are things like how people sit, make eye contact, and pay attention to someone. This is used to gauge a person’s comprehension and interest in the message being transmitted. The nonverbal clues and verbal messages must align for communication to be effective. Analysis of nonverbal feedback application can be addressed in considering the nonverbal cues that are used and how effectively they make communication feedback easy. For example, if an employee does a good report and presents it to the boss the wards ‘job well done’ and accompanying this with a handshake and a smiling face can help drive the message in a strong way to the employee.

Nonverbal feedback helps in making sure that a message is relayed and understood by the target audience. The tool is effective in that it helps the sender in effectively conveying the feelings and is complemented by the verbal communication. Nonverbal feedback also has a direct link between the emotions and empathy of an individual. This, therefore, helps to effectively share the meaning of the communication intended to be communicated. It is easy for an individual to effectively detect if there is a mismatch of the nonverbal and verbal feedback in the different situation where it is applied. A good example can be in the case of a training session where all the employees can show that they fully understand what is being thought through the facial expression and the different body language. The nonverbal communication cues can be incorporated by individuals to make message conveying and effective.

References

Baack, D. (2017). Organizational behavior (2nd ed.). [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://ashford.content.edu