Effective Communication: Challenges, Barriers and Strategies

This article discusses the challenges and barriers to effective communication, including language, interpersonal, emotional, physical, and listening barriers. It also provides strategies to overcome these barriers, such as aligning communication with the receiver's requirements, using appropriate modes of communication, being cautious of language, content, and tone, and ensuring the appropriateness of feedback. The article cites relevant sources from books and journals. The subject is Business Communication, and the course code and college/university are not mentioned.

BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION – CHALLENGES & BARRIERS
Communication barriers
Barriers could be defined as anything causes stuck in the
free flow of the process. Communication barriers distort
the process of communication and thus, the message could
not be communicated effectively to the person concerned
(Al-Kalaldeh and et.al., 2022). There are several barriers to
effective communication such as language, interpersonal,
emotional, physical or listening barriers which prevents
others to understand the message conveyed to them. For
LSST university student, the discussion with regards to
communication barriers will be done.
Communication barriers - Types
Physical: Those Physical factors hindering the flow of
communication which can be both natural or man-made. In
which and the place where they undertaking their
classes could be a barrier.
Emotional: Due to the existence of mental block,
ability to perceive the message gets affected and
feeling cannot be communicated clearly. Difference in
beliefs & attitude at home and university may cause
this barrier.
Linguistic: It is associated with the interpretation of
words & symbols that is being used in the message. For
LSST students, technical problems could cause poor
expression of words leading to misunderstanding.
Interpersonal: Distraction could arise while
undertaking online learning sessions because of
pastimes, getting involved in other activities,
withdrawal, etc. accounts for this type of barrier.
Financial: Budget constraints does not sometime
facilitate adoption of good communication means
which involves, smart phones & broadband
connectivity. Accordingly, act as barrier while
attending sessions online.

case of LSST students, unsuitability of the medium
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OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION - STRATEGIES
Introduction
Strategies to effective communication are a blueprint
through which barriers causing destruction in the free
flow of information can be avoided (Fuchshuber and
Greif, 2022). Several strategies are there that could be
resorted to anytime like communicating with students in
a university or school, colleagues in the organization,
etc.
Effective communication strategies
There are several strategies commonly adopted for
effective communication, such as:
Be cautious of message’s language, content & tone:
Information that the teacher communicate should be
clearly & beautifully framed. Also, the tone with which
it is communicated should not leads to hurting of
student’s emotions and thus must be appropriate as per
the situation.
Communication must be in alignment with
receiver’s requirement: Teachers must be cautious
in avoiding information of distractive nature. Such
information should never be passed while the online
session is going on because it may cause diversion
from key subject matter.
Mode of Communication should be appropriate:
University must ensure that their students have
accessibility towards better gadgets and tools for
effective distant communication. Accordingly,
quality of communication with all the students can
be kept consistent.
Ensure appropriateness of feedback: It is
necessary on the part of teacher to make use of
appropriate method while taking student’s feedback.
This should take place at the end to make sure that

whatever learning materials have been
communication to students are being understood in
the required manner.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Al-Kalaldeh, M., and et.al., 2022. Barriers to effective nurse-patient communication in the
emergency department. Emergency Nurse, 30(4).
Fuchshuber, P. and Greif, W., 2022. Creating effective communication and teamwork for patient
safety. In The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety (pp. 443-460).
Springer, Cham.