Functions of Communication

• • Communication is a SKILL that you can LEARN. It is like riding a bicycle or typing. If you are WILLING to work at it, you can rapidly IMPROVE the quality of every part of your LIFE.  - Brian Tracy
• In whatever means we use in communicating with our loved ones, friends, colleagues, and superiors, we certainly have a PURPOSE in doing so.
• To positively attain our objectives for communicating, we UTILIZE VERBAL AND NOVERBAL CUES well as varied strategies to convey our message effectively to our target listener or audience.
• Information - to provide information, upward flow, downward flow, horizontal flow
• Motivation - fosters self-confidence, encouragement to accomplish tasks
• Social Interactions - act and react to people's behavior
• Emotional Expression - to release or drop off emotional baggage
• Regulation Control - home, school, society, rules, policies, guidlines