The topics for today are ones of my favorites , Have you thought about why we as Colombians talk too much, we don’t
go to the pint, when we is in France can be have a bad situation when a French guy
go straight to the point and give a feedback without making soft . Why is
difficult to understand a Chinese? So, this explanation could give you a context
about these questions and then you can use in your favor. The first one in the
two context in communication.
Low context and High context
Low context cultures are: Germans ,Australians, North Americans, English
amount other . What they have in common? The communication is verbal that means
that the words that the are saying are exactly the ones that you have to
understand , they are logic go straight to the point(highly explicit) and if
you don’t understand is their responsibility something they do wrong.
And the other one is High context are the ones: Chinese, Brazilians, we Colombians,
Korean, Japanese among others. What is the deal of them? Totally opposite from
the low ones. When they are talking you have to take in mind that the most
important things are happening in the non-verbal communication; they are not
explicit, they are more guide with the context and if you don’t get the message
is your fault not of them.
When we as Colombians talk each
other doesn’t happen or between British , but the thinks that you have to take
in mind are three question.
- 1. Which one am I?
- 2. Which one my pother party is?
- 3. How I will use that information in my advantages?
Let’s look the next imagine , now is easy to understand since it show in
what thing each of the dimensions focus in a conversation.
Non-verbal communication
This topic is in my opinion the
most important in this blog because with you can understand many thing in the
air or context .Non-verbal communication are all the actions. Signal of the
body that you perform all the time ,your face(facial excretion), how you sit,
if you cross your arms or not when you
are talking , in other word. Everything that you do communicates. when you are
in a date or a business appointment , if you know how are the excretions and
what they mean, you win the deal.
What could be more important verbal or non-verbal communication in an interview?
This question could be very important for me and my classmates that are
going to finishing the university in 6 month, after that we will have many
interviews to enter a company and this topic that we saw in class will be very useful.
I found that "Body language comprises 55% of the force of any
response, whereas the verbal content only provides 7%, and paralanguage, or the
intonation -- pauses and sighs given when answering -- represents 38% of the
emphasis." Based on CollegeJournal reports (Doyle) , so for as will be
more important the non-verbal communication .I found 7 mistake that could confirm
us that non-verbal is more important (Quast, 2013) .
- · Unusual handshake : if is too hard means arrogance and if is too soft means insecurity
- · Poor or too much eye contact means that you are not interested in the job
- · Poor posture you could communicate that you are lazy or arrogant
- · Too much cologne/after shave/perfume you could have problems with the interview that could be a distractor.
References:
Doyle, A. (s.f.). How to Use Nonverbal
Communication to Impress. About careers .
Quast, L. (2013). Job
Seekers: Avoid These 7 Nonverbal Mistakes In Job Interviews. Forbes.
