Today’s Objective
Continue to explore the communication
modeling process
Process explained
Highlights information transfer
Identification of roles, roles are rigid
Opens up process for questions about people
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related
Dean C. Barnlund submitted this model in 1970
Barnlund’s Transactional Model
of Communication
The language of communication
Two-way, continuous transaction
Communicator
Environment
Noise
Meaning
In a transactional model . . .
We activate a dynamic, simultaneous
process
HANDS ON!
Grab a partner. Your team is
making a visual metaphor.