Update your thinking about communication -- 4 iron laws: Dr. David Weber at TEDxHampstead

David Weber has worked in the field of organizational development since the late 1970s. At University of Southern California, he earned the M.S. degree in instructional design, and a Ph.D. in organizational communication at University of Denver.
Career assignments and professional projects have enabled David to live and work around the world. During his career, clients have included Xerox, Disney, Frito-Lay, U.S. Marine Corps, General Motors, U S West, Hoechst, Waste Industries, Petro Viet Nam (the national oil company of Viet Nam) and many other large and small firms, in both the private and public sectors. He spent several years as an expatriate executive in organizational development in Iran, Indonesia, and Japan.
Serving as an award-winning teacher and researcher at the university level since the 1996, David is currently a professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington, in the Department of Communication Studies, teaching courses there in applied organizational communication, consulting skills and organizational research methods. He has published in the business press and professional and academic media.
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[@whitehart7787]

Communication is:
- That which constructs.
- Finding meaning from other perspectives. Open to other possibilities from a shared mutual experience.
Iron Laws:
- Respect your tools. Utilize and appreciate various methods.
- Two message levels. You are always either building or tearing down.
- No "good" or "bad" comm, just effective or ineffective.
- Response to your message, reveals what it really meant. The result of the message is the final meaning, regardless of intent.
Comm Defined:
- The process of managing mutual responding.
and
- Is the name we give to all of those practices, actions, choices, and activities we do because we can never be one another.
Communication helps overcome our differences.

[@davidpell3237]

You make a difference! Thanks for all you do.

[@catehand6562]

Great info; and also a reminder to be careful to use examples that we actually know something about. A salute is not a sign of respect for the person you are saluting. The salute is a communication of respect for the rank or office that person holds.

[@NaukyMC]

8:05 is where he starts actually presenting something that matters. Everything before is an unnecessary amount of examples without any teaching.

[@IMTA2D]

Thanks!

[@evan3054]

Thanks

[@NEMR888]

I can not understand , how come that he know so much about _communication _ yet he such boring presentation. with all do respect.

[@nh2577]

exactly

[@williamsherman4706]

Very disorganized and not anything meaningful communicated in this Ted Talk.