What are the four methods of verbal communication?
Sean McArdle: Well, when we go out to communicate with people we usually have one of the four things in mind. The first would be to inform people. Let us say you had to walk into a meeting and inform people how a project you are working on is going. You would sit down and give them a report, here is where we are, here is what we have done, here is how far we have come, here is how far we have to go and here is our plan for doing so. So, that s, that s information. Same situation with children, we are going to leave the house at 4 o clock for football practice, you have to be ready at five minutes to four, because we can not afford to be late, you might not make the team if you are not on time. We might be trying to inform somebody we love that we are going to be late for work or late coming home from work. So, we say, Hey listen, I am going to be late coming home from work. We are trying to give them information. The second method of communication is actually, to make a request. So, le
