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Employability Skills Practice Test: Business Communication — Flashcards

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Business communication is communication that is intended to help a business achieve a fundamental goal, through information sharing between employees as well as people outside the company. It includes the process of creating, sharing, listening, and understanding messages between different groups of people through written and verbal formats. (Source: Wikipedia)

Business communication can be of these four types of purpose: Internal (upward), internal (downward), internal (lateral), and external are the four primary types of company communication.

Methods of business communication

Forms of verbal communication:

Internet
Email
Print media
Radio
Word of mouth

Forms of non-verbal communication:

Body language
Sign language
Eye contact
Paralinguistics (conveying emotion by using techniques such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc. )
 

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The term “communis” derived from ___word.
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