Effective Communication: Barriers and Strategies

EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION

ESSAY: Effective communication
Effective communication sounds like it should be natural but it is not the case. It has been
analyzed that most of the time when some people communicate or interact with other person; this
communication may take a wrong turn if the things are not clear between them. It is not the
person who is speaking is involved in making the communication effective but it can be made
effective only if the response from the other person is also correct. We say something, the one on
other side listens something and feel frustrated of the communication is misunderstood, this
generates issues and this misunderstanding takes place because of the barriers of communication.
This essay focuses on some of these related aspects of effective communication (Austin &
Pinkleton, 2015).
Effective communication is not only about exchanging the information but it is more than that.
It's about accepting the feeling and meanings behind the information. Along with this, in order to
clearly transfer a message, it is required to accept the message in a way it is said and also to gain
the full meaning of what’s being said and makes the other person feel heard and understood.
As discussed that making effective communication is not just in the hands of the sender of the
message or the receiver of the message, it depends on various other factors as well. Thus, there
are many barriers that affect the effective communication or we can say that restrict the effective
communication (Arnold & Boggs, 2015). As far as my concern is considered, I have faced many
barriers. One of the major barriers that I used to face is physical barriers. This is the type of
barrier that is faced by each and every person. Physical barriers includes the factors such as
noise, the device used to communicate, poor lightening, temperature, other weather issues etc. I
usually face the issues of background noise whenever I make conversation on phone (Shockley-
Zalabak, 2014). The noises from the background restricted my voice to reach properly to the
receiver. Other barriers that are also very much popular and faced by many individuals are
attitude issues. This is the issue that is inside the person and it is personal nature of the individual
that affects the communication. There are many emotions that the individual face at different
times and these emotions change the nature of communication that ate individual made (King,
Desmarais, Lindsay, Piérart & Tétreault, 2015). As far as my nature is considered, I am little bit
angry and short tempered and thus lack in making effective communication at times because of
many anger. This is because that emotion dominates me. Cultural and language can also act as