MIDTERMS: Communication

What is communication? What does it mean? Why is it very important?

According to my source, “communication is a process of transferring information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communication information is understoodby both the sender and receiver. It requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged.”

Communication is very vital when it comes to management. How you deliver and how it is carried out plays an important role in the laboratory because everything that functions inside is responsible for the expected outcome. Let’s say I said something directed to someone and that someone acknowledged what I just said, then that means the communication went well. But if what I just said was not understood by the other party, then that will otherwise be called “miscommunication”.

Miscommunications could lead  you to A LOT of trouble. And in order for you to save yourself from embarrassment, it’s always best to ask and have people repeat what they say and what they mean because sometimes we tend to assume that what they said is according to what we perceive.

So in every situation, always be careful of how you deliver and express what you want to be understood in order for you to avoid mistakes and miscommunications, especially in the laboratory. Also in your love life ;)

*Everything that I listed and pointed out here are all based from my notes given and discussed to us by our lecturer on Laboratory Management. We were given a task to choose three topics from both our preliminary term and midterm, to which we all get to share and express all the things that we’ve learned for this second semester. *