Reflective Essay on Barriers to Communication, Ethics, Self-awareness and Cross-cultural Communication

Assessment item 3: Reflective
Essay (Individual)
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Introduction
This paper will reflect various barriers to communication and will reflect my understandings
regarding ethics, self-awareness and cross-cultural communication. The readings have helped in
gaining enormous potential and deeper understanding regarding these themes.
Aims
The primary aim of this paper is to reflect the learnings concerning effective communication,
barriers to communication, self-awareness, cross-cultural communication and ethics in the
decision-making process.
Scope
The scope of this study is to analyze, reflect and use the learnings in order to enhance future
study and career goals. The use of the effective communication processes will help in expanding
my strengths and will improve my performance regarding my study and career goals.
Main context
The use and importance of effective communication procedures are of great importance as it
helps in evaluating the desired execution of work processes in a more defined way. I have gained
potential knowledge regarding the effective uses of the communication processes in order to
carry the concerned work practices in the workplace. There is a list of communicational skills
which can be utilized in order to communicate the desired and exact message to the concerned
person. I have understood that the communication is defined as the exchange of information by
speaking or by writing within the concerned group of people or individuals (Fan et al., 2015).
There are various professional words utilized for transferring the message in the form of
communication to concerned persons.
Moreover, I have encountered that there are few of the crucial barriers to communication that
needs to be evaluated in order to enhance the entire communication procedures. There are five of
the crucial barriers to communication, they are judging the other person, not paying attention to
the person talking to, use of technical language, providing unwanted advice and avoiding the
concern of other people. I have understood that judging the other person could not be considered
as to be great measures in improving own personal communication skills (O'hagan, et al., 2014).
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