Overcoming Barriers to Communication

Overcoming Barriers in Communication Communication is a key part in everyone’s life. Communicating is a skill that requires constant learning. As easy as communicating may seem to be, communication is a rather complex skill for all people to master. Multiple barriers exist for communication. For the purpose of this paper there will be three specific communication barriers discussed, which consist of: differences in people’s cultures, language interpretations, and a person’s ability to listen properly. When it comes to the differentiations between cultures, three prominent aspects are present. These are: language, cultural background (i.e. age, gender, level of education), and economic status. People must understand that every language has words that can be taken the wrong way, or that can be misunderstood. People must watch how they say whatever they are trying to say, so as not to be misinterpreted. Then hand in hand with that people must be open-minded and view all the different ways of interpreting what has been said, rather than jumping to conclusions. This flows in with listening properly. A person can not simply hear what is being said, they must listen to what is being said and the way the person says it. Our team has personally used these skills in the writing of this paper. Everyone in our team lives in different areas of the United States, and all team members have different backgrounds and lifestyles. As our group came together everyone had to learn about and understand each other. Our team did not have to face the challenge of different languages, because English was spoken, however, because of the online-classroom environment, our communication has been via the internet, which creates an added challenge. When all communication is done through writing and not face-to-face, it makes for a greater level of difficulty. This difficulty proved to be a fairly easy task for our group to overcome. From day one, each team member jumped in, discovered and

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