CFPBUS004 Business Communication: Challenges and Barriers Report

This report, prepared for a Business Communication course, examines the challenges and barriers encountered in effective communication, particularly within an online learning context. The student analyzes various barriers, including emotional, noise, technical, physical, and cultural issues. The report highlights the impact of these barriers on student engagement, understanding, and overall learning efficiency. Furthermore, it proposes effective strategies to overcome these communication obstacles, such as utilizing announcements, providing clear contact information, and promoting cultural awareness to enhance the learning experience. The assignment draws from the context of BusinessUnited, a private college, and aims to provide practical solutions to improve communication effectiveness. The report is a response to an assignment brief from the London School of Commerce in association with the University of Suffolk.

Business Communication
Emotional barrier: In this a student attending online
lecture is not able to talk with friends which makes
them feel isolated and bored. Also listening to teacher
for long period of time makes interest of student to be
lost within lecture.
Noise barriers: As the classes goes online within
which barriers is been caused in relation to voice that
is been heard or sometime audibility is not there.
This makes students not understand topic in proper
manner. Due to this a particular subject is not clear
which affects their efficiency.
Common challenges and barriers to effective communication
Technical barriers: There were various technical
barriers that is faced by college in relation to
conducting online classes. Poor Wi-Fi: This is one of
the most common challenge that is been faced as at
some places network is not proper and connection
coverage is very low. Lot of teachers uses laptops
having old technology which makes loading to be
done in slow manner. This makes classes to start late
which impacts consistency of learning.
Physical barriers: In this kinds of challenge it has to
be observed that sitting in front of laptops for long
time period makes health issues faced by them like
headaches, body pain which makes health to be
impacted.
Cultural barriers: In this problem that has been
faced by student is that communication was not
able to be done which makes communication gap to
be formed. This resulted in making students
struggle upon getting topics clear with each other.

Communication barriers has been existing during the period of time classes
were been conducted online by Business United. These barriers are physical,
emotional and cultural barrier. In order to overcome certain strategies is being
used that has been explained as follows:
Communicate with students and announcing over subject matter is been used in
making learning to be done in more impactful manner. This make learning to be
done by anticipating questions asked. This will also help eliminate the flood of
emails that may come your way if students are confused.
Effective strategies for overcoming communication barriers
Provide Clearly Understood Contact Information
In this students are required to be given proper information in relation to course
and subject that is related to their subject. So The information in relation to
needs over subject is required to be highlighted in proper manner by making
detail study in form if notes possible.
Use Announcements

The term Culture has a vast meaning and which is often overlooked in our modern
studies and education. We forget to realise the role our culture plays on our
life. By definition Culture of region comprises of each and every activity by
the group of people from that specific; that is how they celebrate their
festivals, from the rituals to dressing, it also includes form of art and, music.
Collectively in simpler terms culture be stated as a way of life for a group of
people. Hence it is very important to know one's culture as that knowledge
allows the individual top connect to its roots; which is a very important step of
self-awareness. With the awareness of the cultures, understanding and
reasoning of the present day situation and problems also follow. When
someone's is aware about its roots; that is regional history, regional songs,
festivals there comes naturally retaliation of why all these activities exist on
the first hand. Many school of thoughts claim that solution to a present day
problem for a better future cannot be found without a proper knowledge of the
past, in simpler terms in order to understand the reality past must be
understood. Culture and past go hand in hand, as it is the passage of time that
shapes the culture through the efforts, interest and easement of the people.
Cultural awareness is one of the most affective things that is to be used in order
to increase efficiency within online process of e-learning. Through this student
indulge more affectively in learning process as they develop interest in topics.
Effective strategies for overcoming communication barriers