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Barriers to
Communication
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Communication Path
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Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Communication blocks
1. Noise
2. Word Walls/Language
3. Overload
4. Dialog cutoffs
5. Stereotyping
6. Deceit
7. Distrust
8. Games 3
Noise
Communication Path
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Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Noise - Cont.
Difficult to hear.
Did not get the message.
Be sensitive to noise problems and adjust
your environment accordingly.
Stop the noise or move the communication
elsewhere.
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Example situation
‘ Leman spent thirty years working with power
tools. Somewhere in his early thirties he
noticed that conversations in his van were
difficult for him to follow. He thought the
problem was the noisy van, and it was,
except for one thing: other people in the van
understood the conversation. Only he
couldn’t follow the talk. ‘
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Word Walls
Communication Path
1 2 3 4 5 6
Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Word Walls - Cont.
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Overload
Communication Path
1 2 3 4 5 6
Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Overload - Cont.
Too much input causes confusion.
Problem with receiver’s ability to cope.
The understanding of the message will be
confused.
The focus of attention is weak.
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Example situation
MajuKita, like most companies, puts the
secretarial staff in very public spaces. The
result is that they are constantly on the phone
answering an inquiry, at the same time they
are waiting on people, at the same time they
are trying to get typing done, at the same
time they are preparing for a meeting, at the
same time……
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Dialog cutoffs
Communication Path
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Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Dialog cutoffs - Cont.
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Stereotyping
Communication Path
1 2 3 4 5 6
Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Stereotyping - Cont.
Misunderstanding, generalizing.
Unshared meaning can be caused by
different education,space, time and belief.
Generalize about group women, men,
workers, doctors etc….
Positive stereotyping.
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Example situation
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Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Deceit - Cont.
Encouraged to misjudge.
Deceptive behavior is often motivated by
hope that a person can be manipulated into
certain perspective.
Hidden agenda, conspiracy.
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Example situation
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Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Distrust - Cont.
Caused either by defensiveness or suspicion.
A job that involves “correcting” people ,
defensiveness can be a major difficulty from
time to time.
Suspicion can be element in a conversation
between two people.
Sincerity is the solution.
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Example situation
Timah’s job needs her to evaluate a lot of
papers. They a re not all “A” papers. The
problem is that as the grades get lower,
defenses rise.
A sales routine of even the briefest sort is
something many people do not handle too
well.
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Key strategies to tell someone
what he or she did wrong:
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Thought Understanding
Construction Translation
Delivery Reception
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Games - Cont.
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