Effective Communication: Barriers, Strategies, and Cultural Influence

This report delves into the challenges and barriers encountered in effective communication, including physical, language, and ambiguity-related obstacles. It outlines strategies for overcoming these barriers, such as utilizing plain language and visual aids. Furthermore, the report highlights the importance of being aware of cultural influences on communication and negotiation, emphasizing how understanding cultural values, beliefs, and customs is crucial for building strong relationships and achieving objectives. The report underscores the need to interlink communication and culture to formulate effective strategies that address and overcome communication barriers, particularly in diverse cultural contexts. This analysis provides valuable insights for improving communication effectiveness in various settings.

POSTER
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK...............................................................................................................................................4
Common challenges and barriers to effective communication....................................................4
Strategies to overcome communication barriers..........................................................................5
Exhibit awareness of cultural influences on communication and negotiation............................5
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INTRODUCTION
Poster mainly is a piece of large printed picture which is mainly designed to attract. It can
include both graphic and textual essentials or it can only be wholly text or graphical. Poster
basically can be used for numerous functions. In present scenario it is used by a chain of hotels
and resorts who is openining their new beach resort in Sri Lanka.
TASK
Common challenges and barriers to effective communication
Communication includes numerous types of barriers that can be in the form of emotional,
linguistic, psychological, cultural and physical. Mentioned below some of the certain barriers are
defined:
Physical Barriers: This type of communication mainly arises when poor and outdated
form of equipments is being used in the process of communication. Some factor that act as a
physical barrier in communication are, background noise, lightning and more. All these barriers
lead towards creating obstacles in the process of communication.
Language: Some individuals those who have knowledge and speak same language but
hails from different regions of identical country can face difficulty in understanding language. In
language barrier factors that create barriers include regional colloquialisms, slang and
professional jargon.
Ambiguity and Abstractions Overuse: This is one the major factor that acts as a
challenge and create barrier in communication. As in this half said leavings or usage of too many
proverbs and generalization can create confusion and lead towards misinterpretations.
Strategies to overcome communication barriers
There are various effective strategies that can be used to overcome the barrier of communication.
Some of that are defined below:
Utilization of Plain Language: In order to clearly defined information or message to
large mass technical terms are not required to consider that much. Use of plain language will
work as wonder to easily communicate message. Utilization of esoteric and jargon vocabulary
may lead towards creating miscommunication and misinterpretations.
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Use Visual methods to communicate: Words may fail sometime but visualisation
always plays their essential role to effectively communicate message. Thus, diagrams and
pictures can be considered to explain lot of complicated concepts in an easy manner.
Exhibit awareness of cultural influences on communication and negotiation
Communication in negotiations states the manner with the help of which negotiators can
accomplish their objectives, resolve disputes and build formative relationships. Communication
act as a more strengthen tool when negotiation covers the aspects of cultural differences. Thus, in
order to gain advantages over cultural influences on communications it become essential to
tightly interlink and interwoven formative relationship between communication and culture and
have proper deep understanding of it. Culture mainly includes share values, rules, beliefs,
lifestyle, habits, attitudes and customs that affect an individual or group thinking. Thus, it is
require understanding those values as they lead towards determining the way of thinking in that
particular region with the help of which formative strategies can be made in order to overcome
those barriers.
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