The document outlines the 7 stages of the communication process: 1. Conceptualizing - Thinking of ideas or concepts to communicate 2. Encoding - Representing the concepts through symbols or codes 3. Transmitting - Sending the encoded message through verbal or nonverbal means 4. Receiving - The recipient receives the transmitted message through their senses 5. Decoding - Translating the symbols back into understandable language 6. Responding - The recipient responds or gives feedback to the sender 7. Verifying - Checking that the communication was understood as intended

2. SEVEN STAGES OF
COMMUNICATION
PROCESS

3. STAGE 1. CONCEPTUALIZING
STAGE 2. ENCODING
STAGE 3. TRANSMITTING

4. STAGE 4: RECEIVING
STAGE 5: DECODING
STAGE 6: RESPONDING
STAGE 7: VERIFYING

5. Whenever you communicate
something to others, you activate,
organize, and evaluate these forms
of knowledge that you have stocked
in your brain since you began
developing your personality.
STAGE 1.
CONCEPTUALIZING

6. STAGE 2.
ENCODING
You have to think of codes or
symbols to embody, signify or
represent these concepts or ideas
you want to communicate.

7. STAGE 3.
TRANSMITTING
Having decided on appropriate
codes or symbols to stand for
ideas you want to express to
others, you think and feel you are
ready to transmit or transfer
them to your listeners.

8. STAGE 4.
RECEIVING
The message or idea represented by
verbal or non-verbal symbols and
transmitted by the sender or
listeners through his senses of
hearing and seeing; the deaf or blind
through his sense of touch.

9. STAGE 5.
DECODING
This is the stage of the communication
process where you decode or translate
the symbols to ordinary language that
mirrors your cultural, sociological,
ideological, institutional or
environmental understanding of your
world.

10. STAGE 6.
RESPONDING
Finding the symbols meaningful,
you tend to react, respond, or give
your feedback to the sender or
speaker.

11. STAGE 7.
VERIFYING
To make sure that your acts of
exchanging of views or ideas with
other people really cater to their
interests, likes, dislikes you have to
verify or check the effects of your
communication on them.

12. Following the stages of
communication process
can create a good,
communication.