Question

Describe a situation from your present or former workplace where you experienced one of the barriers to effective communication. Identify the barrier and describe how you handled the situation. What might you do differently in the future?

Answer 1

There are several barriers to effective communication. They are lack of attention,distraction,speech difficulties,using of slangs,use of jargons etc.

One of the situation from my present company,we had to present infront of our clients. The presention is very well made. But, one of my colleague when she started to present, she used jargons (special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand). In other terms, it is the short form of any process or function. It was very difficult for others to understand what actually it is. We recognized the problem, we pitched in and described the meaning and the full form of it.In such a way,the situation could be able to manage.

In the future,we made sure that the presentations are checked by our colleagues before presenting and we need to present infront of the team to see how it will go. We avoided the use of jargons from that presentation.