Benefits of Communication

This essay discusses the role of communication in professional and personal relationships, the impact of different types of listening and speaking styles, and the barriers to effective communication. It emphasizes the benefits of effective communication in both personal and professional contexts. The essay also provides recommendations for mitigating communication barriers. Subject: Communication, Course Code: N/A, Course Name: N/A, College/University: N/A

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Introduction
Communication is one of the most important aspect that plays a role in better establish of
relationships. Communication finds its importance in both professional and personal
relationships. Importance of Effective communication in a business organization helps in better
commencement of the basic functioning that are present in better planning of the project.
Communication is stated as the foundation base of the planning. Communication in between the
employees of the organization acts as a major reason of motivating that increases the efficiency
of the functioning of the project that is being performed by the business organization. This essay
will discuss about the role of communication that will affect the professional and personal
relationship. This essay will also discuss about the listening and talking styles that affects the
functioning of the business functioning. This essay will also discuss about the barriers that are
present in the communication of different employees and personnel.
Role of communication in professional and personal relationship
The main role of communication in the workplace includes the fact that the researcher
gets benefitted. With the help of proper communication the main advantage that id present
includes the fact that the employees can help each other in complete of their research process.
Team formation also gets affected in a positive manner (Jenifer & Raman 2015). In case of team
formation having a better communication in between the team members will help in better
coordination in between the employees of the business organization. Job satisfaction in between
the employees of the business organization also increases. This helps in retention of employees.
In case a friendly bond develops in between the employees of the organization the man benefit
that will be received includes the fact that the work place environment will get better. Number of
absenteeism will also decrease. This will increase the production of the business organization.

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Hence the turnover of the business organization will increase annually (van den Eertwegh et al
2015). This proves that better communication will help both the business organization and the
employees in flourishing individually as well as a team.
With better communication in personal level the main advantage that is present is having
an effective family communication. Self-esteem of an individual is also effected in a positive
manner. People who are good in communication with people generally finds it easy to approach
people. This is the main reason that gaining success in their life gets easier. In case better
relationship s established in between individuals receiving help from them gets easier. People
who are poor in communication the main disadvantage that they face is that they cannot
approach people (Macht & Nembhard 2015). This affects the functioning of the entire scenario.
This affects them in relationship building in a negative manner. Developing of a successful
business unit tends to get improved with the help of better communication. Understanding the
needs of the family members are done can be performed in a better manner in case a proper
communication process is developed in between the family members. Having good
communication skills increases the power to empathies. Hence understanding of the issues that
are present gets easy (Kristensson, Behrns & Saldert 2015). This is one of the major reason that
better communication acts helpful in the leading a healthy and happy life.
Types of listening and speaking and their impacts
The different types of listening includes evaluative listening, Sympathetic listening and
empathetic listening. With the help of the evaluative learning the main impact that will be
enjoyed includes better understanding of the concern of the person who has been speaking their
concern. With the help of the evaluative listening, proper decision making can be made. This
style is processed with the help of critical listening technique. With the helps of the sympathetic

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style of listening, the main advantage that will be enjoyed includes the fact that showing
sympathy to the speaker can be performed. This will help in better expressing of the concern for
the topic that is being spoken about. Hence participation in happiness and sorrows of the speaker
can be acting as a major impact of the system. With the help of the empathetic listening the
major advantage that will be earned is that proper understanding of the emotion of the speaker.
With the help of the proper understanding of the emotion in which the speaker is speaking, the
will help in understanding of the situation the speaker is in and provide them with proper
solutions to the problems that they are facing.
Being a good speaker will help in gaining more opportunities than a person who is not
very well acquainted with speaking to others. Different types of speakers includes Assertive
speaking, Aggressive Communication, Submissive Speaking, Manipulative speaking. Assertive
speaking is considered as the best talking method, this method affects the listener in a positive
manner (DeFleur & DeFleur 2016). The main reason that this talking style will be affecting in a
positive manner is because this talking style acts as a sweet spot in between the aggressive and
passive talking style. With the help of the aggressive talking, getting job done can be easier in
nature. This type of talking styles are adapted by the managers of the firm. With the help of
submissive speaking, the speaker can easily please the other speakers (Beck 2016). This type is
more of an apologetic process. Manipulative talking is one of the best way to communicate with
other in order to get their work done. With the help of the manipulative talking getting others to
buy their scheme gets easy. This type of talking is generally adapted by the sales man and
Insurance providers.
Barriers to communication and its effects

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The barriers present in communication includes cultural communication barrier.
Language barrier, Perceptual barrier, Physical barrier and Physical barrier. In case of having a
cultural barrier the main issue that will be present includes mismatch of religion cultures. This
impact the communication process in an adverse manner. Increase in secularism in thought
process is also required. Language barrier has been a barrier in communication as in this case the
speakers speaking to each other cannot understand what the other person is speaking (Lewis
2019). This affects team management in work places as well. The sole way to mitigate this
barrier is to have a common language in public places (Mittal 2018). With a common language
allotted to public places, barrier in communication due to language will be mitigated. Perceptual
barrier has been one of the major barrier that affects the proposition of the business transaction.
The main issue present in this case is that the way of thinking of different employees will be
different and hence the output that will be gained as per the strategies of different employees will
be effecting the project completion. The sole way to reduce this issue includes proper defining of
the project result that is desired (Deveugele 2015). Physical barriers are collected as location of
individuals vary and this affects the communication process. This problem can be mitigated with
the help of the usage of the digital platforms.
Conclusion
From the above essay it can be concluded that communication plays a vital role in regular
day to day life. Communication has been benefitting the entire scenario of professional and
personal relationship with other individuals. Talking and listening are considered as the two most
important aspect of communication. Different modes of talking and listening helps individuals in
bettering of their lifestyles. There are several aspects that affect the communication process,
namely cultural barriers, language barriers, perception barriers and the physical barriers. The

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recommendations that are stated in the essay will help in mitigating the issues. This mitigation of
barriers will help in better communication among the individuals.
Recommendation
The major recommendations that must be implemented are as follows: -
 Setting a fixed language in workplace as per the locality.
With the help of the fixed language being set in public places all the visitors will have to
speak the same language and hence there will be no language barrier in the process. With the
help of the mitigation of the language issue proper communication can be made among
individuals of different language.
 Proper defining of goals will also help in decreasing of communication barrier
With the help of proper defining of goals the main advantage that will be received is that
a proper understanding of the output can be made. Hence the strategies that will be made by
different employees will be having a same goal. This ensures that the strategy that will be used
by all the employees will be similar in nature and the focus will remain on the project
 Usage of digital platform will also be benefitting in resolving the physical barrier
Use of digital platform will help individuals to stay connected. With the help of the
digital platform getting in touch with people located in different locations. With the help of the
social media this issue can be mitigated.

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