Lesson 1
Lesson 1
If you saw a couple: You care a great deal for your friends and would
even do absolutely anything for them. At the same time, you don not
exactly enjoy hanging out in big groups or going to noisy parties.
If you saw trees: You are always ready to experience something new
and have a bubbly personality. Change is what you love and you just
happen to crave it.
DUCK RABBIT
Write Your Idea
Add a main point Add a main point
Briefly elaborate on what you want to Briefly elaborate on what you want to Briefly elaborate on what you want to
discuss. discuss. discuss.
If you saw a duck: It’s possible that your life consists of emotional
impulses. You often have rapid mood swings, and you tend to make
decisions abruptly.
• It takes place when the ideas from your mind are transferred to
• It takes place when the ideas from your mind are transferred to
• ONE-WAY COMMUNICATION
• TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION
• ONE TO MANY
TYPES OF
COMMUNICATION
ONE-WAY COMMUNICATION
• Involves feedback from the receiver to the sender. This allows the
media etc.
Components
of
communication
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
• Refers to the production of spoken language to send an intentional message
to a listener.
Example:
• When you speak, you have to be clear, concise, and accurate. While giving food services,
you have to speak politely as well. Through verbal communication, you can greet your
contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture and the distance between two individuals.
Features of Effective Communication
Active Listening
Eye contact
Posture
Simple language
Questioning skills
Benefits of Effective communication
Quicker problem solving
Steady workflow
Emotions
Language differences
Cultural differences
Distraction
LISTENING SKILLS
• Listening is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or
nonverbal message, an active process of getting information, ideas and to improve interpersonal
• To get feedback
• To create a relationship
• Less stress
HANDLING GUESTS WITH
SPECIAL NEEDS
Occasionally, servers encounters guests who have special needs, such as guests who are very young,
NOTE:
Later for your group activity you will be grouped into four (4) and be assigned to each part of
appropriate. Do not attempt to secure the child in the chair or booster seat yourself. It is the
parent’s responsibility to be sure the child is secured so that the child will not fall out and sustain
an injury.
• Treat the child as an important person. Be patient and pleasant, and assist the parents in making
• Parents appreciate extra napkins, and other favors for the children.
Disabled Guests
• A disabled person is one who has a physical or mental impairment or challenge as a result of
conditions that are congenital or acquired by heredity, accident, injury, advanced age, or illness.
Be attentive to his or her needs. The guest will tell you how he or she would like to be helped.
Understanding the disability and assisting him or her properly and discreetly helps the guest enjoy
the meal.
some difficulty. Try to determine some choices by similarity of words or hand gestures. Suggest, as
best as you can, that they point to the items on the menu that they desire.
Intoxicated Guests
• Guests who are intoxicated should be seated in the back of the dining area or in a private dining
room where they do not disturb other diners. Sometimes a guest who is in toxic ate dis bothersome
or rude. Under no circumstances should you serve an intoxicated guest more alcohol in your
establishment . Suggest nonalcoholic drinks, food, and coffee. Be tolerant; call the manager if the
• Remember that different people might have different views of what the issues are.
• Interests are the needs that you want satisfied by any given solution.
• This is the time for active listening. Put down your differences for a while and listen to each other with
• This is the time to do some brainstorming. There may be lots of room for creativity.
4.Evaluate the options.
• Is there a way to “bundle” a number of options together for a more satisfactory solutions?
6. Document the agreement(s).
• Writing it down will help you think through all the details and implications.
7. Agree on contingencies, monitoring, and
evaluation.
• Conditions may change. Make contingency agreements about foreseeable future circumstances.
2. It takes place when the ideas from your mind are transferred to another’s and arrive intact, complete, and coherent. COMMUNICATION
3. __________ it is the transmission of an idea or feeling so that the sender and receiver share the same understanding. Communication
Types of communication
4. __________ It is the type of communication commonly found in ‘old’ media suck as print, radio, and television. One to many.
5. _________ it Flows from a sender to receiver, but nothing goes back in return. ONE-WAY COMMUNICATION
6. ___________ Involves feedback from the receiver to the sender. TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION
7. __________Refers to the production of spoken language to send an intentional message to a listener. VERBAL COMMUNICATION
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8. Refers to the process where in speakers express emotions by modulating nonverbal aspects of their speech. VOCAL COMMUNICATION
9. Is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture and the distance between two
10_________ is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal message, an active process of getting information,