Barriers and Strategies for Effective Communication

This document discusses the barriers and challenges to effective communication, including linguistic barriers, technical jargon, and cultural differences. It also provides strategies to overcome these barriers and explores the influence of culture on negotiation and communication.

INTRODUCTION
Communication is the process through which individuals exchange ideas and information with each other.
Contrastingly, effective communication is the art through which an individual listens, reads, understands and processes
relevant information and conveys it to other individuals. Typically, there are 4 types of ways for communication
verbal, nonverbal, written and visual.
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Barriers and Challenges to Effective
Communication
There are present several challenges and
barriers that hinder an individual’s attempts to
communicate effectively with others. These are as
follows:
 The most prevalent challenge and barrier
that hampers an individual’s attempts at
communicating effectively with others is
that of linguistic barrier. Effective
communication is hard when both parties
involved do not share the same languages,
linguistic experience and possess diverse
accents, all of which present serious barriers
towards their effective communication
operations (Kapur, 2018).
 Another major barrier to effective
communication presents through the use of
technical terms or jargon by one party trying
to communicate with others, which might be
excessively complicated or unfamiliar to
many of the people they are trying to
communicate to.

Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Effective
Communication
As the barriers and challenges to effective
communication are quite common and prevalent, there
are several strategies that one can make use of with the
intention to communicate effectively with others. These
are as follows:
 For effective communication to occur between
two or multiple parties involved, the sender or
speaker of the information needs to convey their
ideas to others in a clear and concise manner to
the receivers.
 The sender or speaker of the information is also
required to structure the information in an
effective manner, taking care that they match the
linguistic complexity of the information to the
level which the receivers or listeners possess for
effective communication between them to take
place.
Influence of Culture on Negotiation and
Communication
As different individuals and groups comprising of
various individuals often have different and distinct
backgrounds and cultures, this can also become a major
factor that significantly influences the effective
communication operations between them. Culture
influences effective communication and negation
operations between individuals because:
 In negotiations involving individuals from distinct
cultures, the inherent definitions of negotiations
and opportunities might differ from one another.
 People belonging to diverse cultures possess and
follow different protocols and methods to one
another, through which they operate,
communicate or negotiate with others.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, this poster
analyses the various barriers that
are present towards effective
communication and evaluates
strategies to overcome these
barriers to effective
communication. The poster also
identifies the influence of
culture on negotiation and
communication.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Oetzel, J.G., 2017. Effective
intercultural workgroup
communication theory. The
International Encyclopedia
of Intercultural
Communication, pp.1-5.
Kapur, R., 2018. Barriers to
Effective Communication.
Thompson, N., 2018. Effective
communication: A guide
for the people professions.
Macmillan International
Higher Education.

NOTES
Barriers and Challenges to Effective Communication
 Communication efforts trying to conveys information that might be judged as being boring or uninteresting for the
receiving party, may cause their mind to drift and focus on other topics, making them not pay attention to the
communication operation is another major barrier to effective communication.
 Physical disabilities such as being deaf, mute or blind also pose as major challenges and barrier towards effective
communication between two or multiple involved individuals.
 Emotional and psychological barriers such as topics related to sex, politics, race or religion tend to make people
hesitant and pose as a significant challenge and barrier towards effective communication.
Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Effective Communication
 The speaker or sender of the information is also required to make or structure the communication content in an
interactive, relevant and engaging manner, so that all parties involved in the communication operations are interested,
focused and engaged in the communication operations, without which effective communication cannot occur (Oetzel,
2017).
 The sender or speaker is also required to know whether if there are any linguistic barriers that are present between
different individuals participating in communication operations, if so they should make use of nonverbal or visual
types of communication to better articulate their ideas and information to others in order to effectively communicate
with one another.
 Feedbacks can be used after the communication operations have finished, in order to evaluate whether the listeners or
receivers have in fact understood the information that was being provided to them, in order to improve effective
communication efforts.
Influence of Culture on Negotiation and Communication
 People belonging to different cultures possess distinct sensitivities towards timing restrictions and operational risks.
When individuals belonging to different cultures communicate or negotiate with one another, these tend to influence
immensely (Thompson, 2018).
 Cultural background of individuals also significantly influences their ability to be formal or informal with others
during conversations with people who are above or below their own age range or towards individuals belonging to
different genders.