task 3

barriers to effective communication

Office barriers like being in a big office you have to speak louder to communicate with your listener which is a distance away. this also occurs with separators if there is something in your way such as a door then you really have to shout to get the right effect then background noise such as being next to a main road it is hard to communicate even with the person next to you and then harder for you to listen you can still communicate by using gestures to get your point across

Language barriers can be two kinds, accent barriers is when if something has a different accent and they can be difficult to understand because of this but they know the English language but then it can get really difficult when the person can not speak much English at all this can occur when you go abroad and you have to communicate with the locals. Then on to emotional barriers if someone is generally a shy person and they cant get their ideas across this could happen in an interview or even just meeting someone for the first time.

ways to over come language barriers is to have some like a translator there to translate to each speaker what the other one is saying this could occur when you are interviewing or being interview for maybe a foreign company and other ways to over come the emotional barriers is to speak to the person in their own environment such as there home or somewhere that feels comfortable to them back ground noise is easier to avoid just by going to somewhere quieter to talk like a quiet room or avoid main roads if you are trying to communicate properly. and over coming office barriers can be dealt with an inside line just by having a code on the telephone to call someone on the other side of the office. most barriers can always be dealt with you have just got to find out how.

principles of effective communication

This slide focusing on the prospects of communication and the principles including some of the barriers.

A general principle of speaking is modulating your voice. You can modulate your voice by changing the pitch up and down because if the pitch is consistent then your audiences opinions could be that what they are experiencing is dull and boring. And they wont take much from what you have said a good example is when a teacher asks a question they raise the pitch near the end of a sentence and this proposes a question. Eye contact can be helpful when you are in an interview and if you keep eye contact it shows that you interested in what they are saying to you and then they know that your listening or addressing them. Having enthusiasm in a subject is a great way of also engaging your audience because if you are engaged ( enthusiastic ) then the audience are more likely to listen and be engaged.

Emoticons are used usually in text messages along with smileys and these are types of informal pieces of text such as text message or little notes to friends. Then correct spelling is used with the write grammar and punctuation and these are formal pieces of text which are used in newspapers, letters, essays etc. 

Active listening is great to be able to do because if your focusing and concentrating on everything that is going on around you then your body language will show that like if your watching a presentation and your looking and observing and taking in what the speaker is saying then then you could ask questions about the presentation and then your body language when asking the question could show that your active by the way you ask it.

If you are casually speaking to someone or even formally and they have an accent then they are quite difficult to understand sometimes this is a language barrier but then background noise even if the speaker is English and has an English accent if there is a lot of noise then they may become hard to understand this is still a communication barrier because it is almost preventing you from understanding it