The Importance of Network

Yagmur Bahar Polat attended the conversation that took place in Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences (İİSBF) Campus J-Block 358 classroom. The conversation started with the question of what is communication? Polat defined communication as a sharing of meaning. Afterwards, the focus was on types of communication. Polat mentioned that 55% of nonverbal communication consists of images and visual parts, 38% consists of sound and 7% consists of content.
 
In the second part of the interview, Polat distributed A4 paper to the participants and asked them to tear the paper from anywhere they wanted and fold it again. Continuing this action until the paper shrank, Polat pointed out that all papers are different and that communication is similarly different from each other. Emphasizing that man is a complex creature and that each person is different from each other, he said, “The society, culture, family and personality you were born into differentiate you.”
 
Emphasizing that the biggest deficiency in society is communication, he said that communication is of great importance in the stage where people can understand each other and accept their differences.
 
In the third part of the talk, Polat focused on the concept of Networking, which he defined as the art of loving and recognizing people. In this context, he talked about research and theories related to communication. Polat, referring to a research that has been done, stated that a person can establish a close relationship with a maximum of twelve people. Referring to another study, he stated that a person can establish a social network between one hundred and two hundred people.
 
Referring to the concept of global village, Polat said that the world has now turned into a small village. He emphasized the importance of collecting people by stating that although everything changes, communication does not change. Polat said, "When a person is contacted, if a person knows an average of two hundred people, we have the possibility of meeting two hundred times two hundred, which is equal to forty thousand people." Talking about the importance of communication, Polat said, “When a person opens a company for the first time, 73% of them do business with their environment. If you have a reference in job interviews, your probability of getting a job increases by 63%.
 
Polat gave advice to the students at the end of the interview. Polat said, "We are all angels with one wing, we can only fly by hugging each other," said Polat. In the question and answer part, the differences in the forms of intercultural communication were emphasized.