Common Challenges and Barriers to Effective Business Communication

This article discusses the common challenges and barriers to effective business communication, including psychological, emotional, cultural, academic, and language barriers. It also provides strategies for overcoming these barriers, such as communication training, promoting cultural awareness, and investing in internal growth.

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Psychological barriers- There
are different issues of
psychological and mental
which can be barriers for
effective communication.
Some individuals have fear of
stage, disorders of speech and
phobia which makes difficult
for managing the situation
(Sheffield, 2020).
Emotional barriers-
Emotional IQ of the individual
determines ease and comfort
with what they communicate
(Desyatova and Malakhova,
2018). Individual who is
mature emotionally will
communicate very effectively.
On other side individual who
have no control let emotions
take the control face
challenges.
Common challenges and barriers to effective
communication
cultural barriers- There are
different cultural protocol and the
social change which creates
misunderstanding among the
people belong to different place.
Strangers to the one's culture can
majorly act as the barrier in
communication.
Language barriers- students from other
countries didn't understand the language of
country properly which easily transfer in their
learning process. It overall reflects in their marks
and results as they are not in favour of them.
Academic barriers- Every place
have different ways of teaching and
this can be occurred by the
requirement of the projects and the
classroom behaviour of the students.
This barrier makes learner less
effective in learning process.
lack of common area of interest-
As the learners from the different
countries have different areas of
interest which results in different
taste in food, clothes, music, hobbies
and many more. Having different
liking creates gap in understanding
each other as person

Development of various strategies that are needed for overcoming
communication barriers
Focus on listening- The
students try to listen to the other
student more which makes them
better understanding of the
cultures and the behaviour of
the people. Listing helps in
generating and evaluating what
people tend to say.
Communication training- The
government of UK should give
the communication training to
the students who are new in the
country and came in for studies.
Teaching them their languages
and cultures is the best way to
overcome communication
barriers.
Strategies of government to remove
barriers- The government of many
countries are are implementing the
procedures which helps the students to
easily involve in the countries processes.
These strategies of the government bring
stability for the new students.
Get the
understanding of
big picture-
Individual must
remove self with
the situation to
cool down and get
the clear picture
of own and what’s
going in present
time(Kelly and
MacDonald,
2019). They
should practice
accepting the
imperfections.
Promoting cultural
awareness- Cultural
awareness makes students
more understanding towards
the nation which helps in
minimizing the
communication gap between
among the students (Wack,
2021). It acts as a bridge of
communication.
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Desyatova, O.V. and
Malakhova, V.L.,
2018. Linguocultural
aspects in training
international business
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Kelly, S. and MacDonald, P.,
2019. A look at leadership
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Journal of Business
Communication, 56(3),
pp.432-448.
Invest in internal growth-
For dealing with the
Psychological barrier the
individual has to invest in
internal growth and
developing the personality.
They must have a purpose in
life as it gives strong
motivation.