Ways of overcoming barriers to communication

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Background Noise

• A way to over come Background Noise would be to wear ear muffs or headphones, which are noise cancelling. An example of these would be the Sony MDRNC7B Noise Cancelling Headphones.

• This then helps you to concentrate on the subject, and not to be distracted by Background Noise.

Distractions

A way to over come Distractions such as Mobiles going off or other people talking, would be to concentrate fully on the subject at hand, and try to ignore the other distractions, and simply carry on speaking, not losing your train of thought.

Something to get other this would be once more to get a Headset or something along those lines which will allow you to concentrate on Speaking and not get distracted.

LACK OF CONCENTRATION

• A way to overcome the Lack of Concentration would be to add images or sounds to the presentation, to keep the audience immersed in the presentation, so that they would pay attention.

• Animations or pictures and color would do this, so a good presentation would have these things to over come this barrier.

• Flash would be a good idea to make the Animations as it is very good, graphical and easy to do so.

Different languages

A way to overcome Different Languages is too find out in what country or part of a country that someone would be presenting the presentation, and adding subtitles of getting someone who speaks that language to help present across the information on the presentation.

Different opinionsA way to overcome this Barrier

would be to include the opinions of every side of the presentation, so that the Audience could see the whole sides of the presentation.

Such as if it was something about the Government, the info should be about both sides, not just one.

A way to overcome this Barrier would be to present the information about all sides of

the Culture.An example of this would be that if you

were presenting something about Religion, it would be a good idea to include

information about more than one religion, to make it fair.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Physical barriers

A way to over come Physical Barriers would be to have a certain amount of people in the room or place that the presentation is being held, so that the close proximity of other people, would be there so that the audience could concentrate fully on the presentation, not other people.

Body Language

• A way to over come this Barrier would be to use only positive body language and gestures, such as using your hand to show bits of information on the board or where it is being projected, whereas crossed arms would be negative body language, as it would show that you wouldn’t be comfortable, and would interrupt the concentration on the presentation.

A way to over come this Barrier would be to slowly explain each point of the presentation, so that the audience would be able to get the infomation properly, and effectively. Don't speak to fast over too many subjects, as the audience would get confused, and forget a lot of what you just said.

Overload of information

Inconsistency

• A way to over come this barrier would be too look over the presentation beforehand, so that you can make logical connections to the work being presented, and not too jumbled up. For if the presentation is Inconsistent, it would cause confusing, or the audience would simply ignore what else you have to say.

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