Business Communication
Introduction: Communication barriers (often also called noise or static) complicate the communication process. A communication barrier is anything that impedes the communication process. These barriers are inevitable. While they cannot be avoided, both the sender and receiver can work to minimize them. Communication Barrier: Incorrect Filtering Filtering is screening out before a message is passed on to someone else. In business, the filters between sender and receiver are many; secretaries, assistants, receptionists, answering machines, etc. The ideas of a message from the sender may change when passing through the filters before the message is pass to the receiver. Those same gatekeepers may also ‘translate’ receiver’s ideas and responses before passing them back to the sender. Thus, it forms a barrier that hinders the sender and receiver to understand the exact idea and the information of the message. Way to Overcome To overcome filtering barriers, try to establish more than one communication channel, eliminate as many intermediaries as possible, and decrease distortion by condensing message information to the bare essentials.
Communication Barrier: Language Ways to Overcome To overcome language barriers, use the most specific and accurate words possible. Always try to use words that audience will understand. Increase the accuracy of the messages by using language that describes rather than evaluates and by presenting observable facts, events, and circumstances. Both of the receiver and sender should improve themselves by learning more language instead of learning their mother tongue only .This help them to overcome the awkward situation when they couldn’t comprehend other’s language and mislead themselves by interpreting the messages wrongly. *Communication Barrier: Differing Emotional S*tates Every message contains both a content meaning, which deals with the subject of the message, and a relationship meaning, which suggests the nature of the...
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