Communication Barriers and Strategies to Overcome Them

This article discusses the common challenges and barriers to effective communication, such as language barriers, culture differences, and information overload. It provides strategies to overcome these barriers, including the use of visual methods, promoting better working relations, and using simple language. The article also highlights the impact of culture on communication and negotiation.

Communication barriers and strategy to overcome them
Introduction: Communication is the act of conveying meaning from
one person to another through the use of mutually understood the
signs, symbols etc. The main steps inherent to all communication are:
the formation of communication motivation or reason. The present
poster will be based on the Mr. Fishy, Fish and chips restaurant
which is establish in Borough market near London. There are many
different culture and different age group people are working together
who are British or Non-British staff. The poster will identify the
common challenges and barriers to effective communication. It will
be developed by strategies for overcoming communication barriers.
Poster will demonstrate awareness of culture influences on
communication and negotiation.
Common challenges and barriers to effective communication
Communication is important part of conveying messages and
emotions to other people in restaurant. Mr fishy face various problems
which are related to communication. These create misunderstanding
between staff and employee.
Language barriers
Language is important factor which create communication
barriers for people in order to understand the messages of others. It is
very easy to understand language, but it is difficult to speaking the
same language if they are different generations or from different
regions of the same country. This create a challenge for Mt Fishy to
understand message.
Culture differences
The norms of social interaction very greatly in different
culture as do the way in which emotions expressed. Culture difference
is challenge and barriers of effective communication because people
are generally use their mother language for speaking. This is the main
challenge for Mr Fishy in their restaurant because there British and
Non-British people are working together for company growth factors.
Information overload
Information overload is taking time to process a lot of
information too many details are challenge because providing lots of
information to staff is create problem. This is main challenge and
barriers of effective communication in Mr Fishy restaurant. For
example: if manager gives lots of information and details to staff in
once time then staff is able to understand that in proper manner.
Lack of attention and interaction
Lack of attention is the biggest challenge and barriers of
effective because of employees are make proper focus on collecting
and listening information. Proper listening is very important for good
communication skill and in order to improve communication skill.
Like employee present but not make proper attention than it creates
the challenge for effective communication.
Those are challenges and barriers of effective
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CONCLUSION: This poster had been concluded by the
communication has very important part of life in order to
communicate messages to others in proper manner. Language
barriers, culture difference and overload information have the
common challenges and barriers to effective communication process.
That had been create problem and issues for company growth by
creating misunderstanding. Poster had also developed by strategies for
overcoming communication barriers through using simple
communication language. Culture had been influenced to
communication and negotiation of peoples in negative manner
because lack of interacting peoples and lack of knowledge regarding
culture and language.
Develop strategies for overcoming communication barriers
It is very important to overcome communication barriers in
effective manner for improve performance of work in restaurant. Here
are showing some strategy to overcome those communication barriers
in proper manner are as follows:
Use visual methods of communication
Words often fails but visual methods are not fails. In terms of
explaining something and conveying message to others, manager can
use visual methods of communication. This can be help to overcome
communication barriers in effective manner.
Avoid information overload
Mr fishy should know the priorities their work in restaurant.
This will effective strategy for overcome communication barriers in
effective manner. In case of extra information manager of Mr Fishy
have to provide only important and foremost details to staff regarding
work. This help to reduce misunderstanding between staff and
manager.
Promote better working relation
Better working relation is help reduce communication
barriers form communication because through employees are able to
interact with Non-British people to British language. This encouraging
the staff to communicate with each other in more effectively.
Use of simple language
Use of simple and clear words should be emphasized and
have to avoid jargon from communication process. Simple language is
like generally use by whole country which is English. Manager can
use this language for conveying message to others in proper manner.
This strategy is help to overcome those communication challenges and
barriers from effective communication process.
Those are the effective strategies to overcome
communication challenges and barriers to effective communication
process.
Demonstrate awareness of culture influences on communication and negotiation
The effect of culture on communication and negotiation can be divided into intercultural and cross culture which is
compared by culture characteristics. The intercultural negotiation refers the negotiations with one own culture.
Negotiation
The culture is impact to negotiation can be categorised into the intercultural and cross culture compared along culture
characteristics. The intercultural negotiation reefers to negotiation within the one own culture. Other hand, cross culture refers the
concerns negotiation between individual form the different culture. Culture gives impact on negotiation and this will create by lack
of interaction between people. For example: in Mr fishy restaurant have British and Non-British people who are work together and
they are not interact with others than they are not help to others. They are not giving any guidance and instructions for work.
Communication
Culture is influence to communication because of different culture and rituals. This influence how people communicate,
both verbally and non-verbally, directly and indirectly and also through body language. Every culture and country people have
their own language for conveying messages to others. This creates by language and culture differences of people. Culture
difference is like one staff is not from local market they work internationally. This can be affected to communication process in
negative manner.