Overcoming the barriers to Communication

Following are some of the remedies to overcome the different types of barriers that we confront in our day-to-day life.

•  Always deliver the messages skilfully with proper plan and clarity to avoid miscommunication.
• Try to avoid using jargons and ambiguous words to the extent possible.
• Have a positive attitude about communication. Defensiveness interferes with communication.
• Prepare and deliver the message by keeping the understanding capability of the receiver.
• Contents of your message should be as brief as possible and take care of your tone, accent and language.
• Make sure that your content of message will be beneficial and very much useful to the receiver and with this you will achieve the effectiveness of communication easily.
• Never forget that you should be an attentive listener to overcome any sort of communication barriers.
• Maintain a strict time sense if you wish to be appreciated by your listeners.
• If you can adopt question-answer technique, you can eliminate misunderstanding and you can also deliver your message easily and clearly.
• You can reduce the risk of miscommunication by delivering your message keeping the feelings and attitude of the receiver in your mind.
• Avoid unnecessary repetitions and over-elaboration in your message to the maximum extent.
• Forget not to collect the feedback from the listeners.
• Take care of your body language and use appropriate facial expressions, gestures and maintain proper eye contact while delivering your verbal messages.
• Try to highlight the main points in your message.