Strategies for Effective Communication in Negotiation and Business

This report examines the crucial role of communication in negotiations, emphasizing its impact on achieving objectives, resolving disputes, and fostering relationships, particularly when cultural differences are involved. It highlights the significance of understanding the interplay between communication and culture to leverage cultural influences effectively. The report identifies common communication barriers, including language difficulties, ambiguity, and overuse of abstractions, providing examples such as regional colloquialisms and jargon. It proposes strategies to overcome these barriers, such as using plain language and visual aids. Furthermore, it discusses various types of communication barriers, including physical, emotional, linguistic, psychological, and cultural barriers, providing insights into challenges like poor equipment and background noise. The analysis is aimed at improving negotiation outcomes and building strong business relationships. The report also highlights the significance of effective communication in the context of a new beach resort opening.

Common challenges and barriers to effective communication
Introduction
Communication is an ongoing process, which actually runs from person to
person-using modes such as verbal and verbal communication. In the current
period, communication has proved important for expressing feeling, view and
opinion to individuals. In present scenario, a chain of hotels and resorts who is
opening their new beach resort in Sri Lanka uses it.
Barriers to effective communication
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outdated form of equipment is being used in the process of communication.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.
Other Barriers
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
Various effective strategies 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.
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.
Cultural influences
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.