Strategies to Improve Business Communication: Mr. Fishy Report

This report analyzes the challenges and barriers to effective communication within a business context, specifically using the fictional company "Mr. Fishy" as a case study. It identifies key issues such as lack of understanding between workers, time constraints, cultural and language barriers, and their impact on staff performance and business operations. The report then proposes various strategies for overcoming these barriers, including developing group activities, encouraging team interaction, using simple language, and promoting participation in company activities. It also emphasizes the importance of awareness of cultural influences on negotiation and communication, suggesting the implementation of programs like "meet and greet" to foster understanding. The report concludes by summarizing the identified barriers and the proposed strategies for improvement, highlighting the need for proactive measures to enhance communication and foster a positive work environment within the company, especially considering its diverse workforce.

BUSINESS
COMMUNICATION
TASK 1

Table of Contents
 INTRODUCTION
 Barriers and challenges to effective communication
 Strategies for overcoming communication barriers
 Awareness of cultural influences on negotiation and communication
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 In beginning, this presentation briefly describe the challenges and barriers to
effective communication, strategies for overcoming barriers of communication and
explain awareness of cultural influences on negotiation and communication.

Barriers and challenges to effective
communication
 Workplace communication is very essential to organization like Mr Fishy, it
allows business to be more productive and help to operate each and every operation
effectively.
 In company due to Brexit, connections between non-British and British workers is
complicated, they work together but have different perspective.
 There are some common challenges and barriers of effective communication that
impact on staff performance and business operations.

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Lack of understanding between workers-
 In company understanding between all the staff members is very important,
because without developing relation they cannot be able to communicate with each
other effectively.
 For example, in Mr Fishy firm non-British and British people work together, but due to
lack of understanding between all of them they could not interact with each other which
affect on their performance and working abilities the most.

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Lack of time to interact with staff-
 Time is the most essential think, when people have time in workplace after
workload they interact with each other and communicate with its team members.
 But on the other hand due to lack of timing during workload, staff cannot be able to
collaborate and communicate with others in group which is one of the effective
communication barrier.
Cultural barriers-
 For example, in company staff belongs to different cultures as they have
different goals that create conflict among them.
 Cultural barriers is one of the common challenge to effective communication that
impact on workers productivity and behaviour.

Language barriers-
 While having global and diverse workforce in company, Mr Fish face
language barriers, it is one of the challenging situation that impact on environment
around workplace.
 Multi languages is ineffective, slow down process of work and create misunderstanding
between group of people's.

Strategies for overcoming
communication barriers
Develop plan for group activity-
 By developing plan for group activity, company will be able to overcome
communication barriers.
 Through planning a training session, manager in Mr Fish company provide an
opportunity for all the staff members to communicate and interact with each other and
understand their feeling and thoughts.
 Moreover, planning can be related to learning activities, like they plan quiz
competition which is one of the best strategy that help to reduce gap and build strong
team.

Spend time with team members-
 During playing games and participation in fun activities, employees need to
communicate with everyone, it support to reduce communication gap and overcome
communication barrier in workplace.
 At lunch break, all the workers sit together and start group discussion, when people
discuss something other members normally include themselves in this discussion and
shared their thoughts and ideas to everyone.
 Spend time together is the appropriate strategy that give positive results and remove
barriers of effective communication in business between non-British and British staff.

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Use of simple language-
 In Mr Fish restaurant, manager addressed communication barrier in meeting
that impact on business growth as well as workers abilities.
 In order to overcome this barriers, development of different strategies is essential. By
using of simple language in workplace, they can do so.
 Use of clear and simple words, reduce change of creating misunderstanding.
 Staff need to avoid use of ambiguous words that is not easy to understand and create
conflict in effective communication.

CONTI..
Participation in activities-
 Due to cultural barriers as well as language barriers, people do not
communicate with each other, they feel hesitate for interaction with other in company.
 In order to remove this barriers, participation is each and every activity is very
significant for workers, as it help to create positive work environment around work
area.
 Non- British and British employees must take participation in training, meeting and
group discussion that support to understand norms and believes of staff which make
them able to communicate with all.

Awareness of cultural influences on
negotiation and communication
 Culture influences how people, behave, communicate and think, it also
impact the way individuals interact and kinds of transactions they make.
 In organization worker belongs to different culture, that have effect on negotiation. In
restaurant, British and non-British employees work together, they relate to different
culture and norms which create barriers of communication, it also create challenges for
negotiation which negatively impact on business growth and working environment.
 On the other side, cross culture influence communication, it gives an
individual its way of interpreting life and seeing world