Effective Communication Strategies: Barriers and Cultural Awareness

This report delves into the barriers and challenges of effective communication within a business context, specifically focusing on a school environment. It identifies various obstacles such as noise, poor infrastructure, weak network connectivity, and cultural differences. The report analyzes strategies employed by the school to overcome these barriers, including the use of soundproof glass, infrastructure improvements like playgrounds and libraries, enhanced Wi-Fi networks, and the organization of cultural activities. The importance of cultural awareness is also examined, highlighting its role in breaking down barriers, building bridges, and fostering understanding within diverse environments. The report references relevant literature to support its findings and provides practical solutions for improving communication effectiveness within the school and, by extension, in the workplace. The report highlights the significance of cultural awareness in effective communication and provides actionable strategies for fostering improved communication.

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Explaining the barriers and challenges for effective communication
The different barriers and challenges that are faced by Learn English UK are:
 Noise barriers
 Bad structure
 Poor network
 Cultural activities
Examining the importance of cultural awareness
The term is used to understand difference between attitudes and values
of people from other background and countries. In the nursing it is used
for improving the working environment of the employees, patients
experience and satisfaction of them with full care. It helps the schools
to make good decisions that are appropriate for them by reducing the
chance of bad decisions.
Analysing the effective strategies that are used by the school to overcome communication
barriers
Different type of strategies used by the school to overcome communication barriers that are
faced by the students (Yang and et.al., 2020):
They are not able to open window the school will use soundproof glass
The school have made strategies to improve the infrastructure by introducing good lightning
and facilities like playground, multi-purpose rooms, libraries etc.
The management of the school will plan to improve the Wi-Fi signal by changing the
networks so that students don not face any problem while contacting their parents and friends.
By planning more cultural activities for the student the school will make them attentive. By
this they will come to know how to interact with individual which will also result in
improving communication.

Examining the importance of cultural awareness
Cultural awareness also results in breaking down the barriers by
building bridges. In large companies it is important for the mangers to
be aware of different values that will motivate different cultures. For
communication it helps in understanding acting in corresponding
manners and social norms (Ahokangas and Matinmikko-Blue, 2021).
Analysing the effective strategies that are used by the school to overcome communication barriers
Different type of strategies used by the school to overcome communication barriers that are faced by the
students (Yang and et.al., 2020):
 It is the main difficulty that is faced by the students of school that is at the time of summer they are
not able to open windows because of passing traffic as school is situated at central location that they
are enabled to hear the lessons and lectures that is taught by their teacher. To solve this problem of
student related to traffic they are not able to open window the school will use soundproof glass so that
their will be no distraction at the time of hearing the lessons from their teachers. The school can also
use different
 The students are complaining that the walls are very cold and do not have proper insulation further at
the time of winters they are unable to focus on the lesson. The school have made strategies to
improve the infrastructure by introducing good lightning and facilities like playground, multi-purpose
rooms, libraries etc. By reconstructing school and making it good will result in attracting large
number of people.
 The main problem that is faced by the student for effective communication is they after the school
because of weak communication they are not able to connect with their friends and family. The
management of the school will plan to improve the Wi-Fi signal by changing the networks so that
students don not face any problem while contacting their parents and friends. Also, they will provide
the facility for student so that they can come in contact with their family (Martynyshyn, Khlystun and
Kovalenko, 2019).
 The student of the school feel that the management should organise more cultural activities so that
they will get the help to incorporate and learn new things so that they don't feel unhappy and can also
integrate into better British society. By planning more cultural activities for the student the school
will make them attentive. By this they will come to know how to interact with individual which will
also result in improving communication. Also, this will help them in future when in workplace the
individual have to work in the team at that time they will not face any error or misunderstandings.
REFERENCES
Books and journals
Yang, Y and et.al., 2020. Finbert: A pretrained language model for
financial communications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.08097.
Martynyshyn, Y., Khlystun, E. and Kovalenko, Y., 2019. The cross-
cultural communications in business trips: statistical measures
in coordinates of Ukraine. Communications-Scientific letters of
the University of Zilina, 21(4), pp.104-112.
Ahokangas, P. and Matinmikko-Blue, M., 2021. Introduction to Special
Issue “Mobile Communications and Novel Business Models”.
Sustainability 2021, 13, 674.