Demonstrate An Awareness Of Communication Barriers:
Overview
A manager sends an urgent email, but the worker never opens it; an instruction is buried in jargon nobody understands; a message passes down such a long chain that its meaning is twisted by the time it arrives. These are communication barriers, and they cost businesses time, money and mistakes every single day.
In this lesson you will learn how communication barriers arise at each stage of the communication process, what problems ineffective communication causes, and the practical ways managers can reduce or remove those barriers. By the end you will be able to spot why a message has failed and recommend how to fix it.
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- How communication barriers arise and problems of ineffective communication; how communication barriers can be reduced or removed
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- Which is one of the four parts of the communication process? A. profit B. feedback C. inventory D. dividend Answer: B
- Using technical jargon the receiver cannot understand is a barrier caused by the: A. sender B. weather C. receiver's salary D. tax office Answer: A
- A message is distorted because it passes through too many layers of management. The best fix is to: A. make the message longer B. use the shortest possible communication channel C. add more jargon D. remove all feedback Answer: B
- Communication is only effective when the message is: A. sent quickly B. understood by the receiver C. written in capital letters D. kept secret Answer: B
- An advantage of two-way over one-way communication is that it: A. removes the need for a sender B. allows feedback so the sender knows the message was understood C. is always cheaper D. needs no receiver Answer: B
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