Explain The Six Major Barriers To Effective Communication

In the business world, effective communication is vital for the success of any business. This can only be achieved by successfully avoiding the six major barriers to effective communication. These barriers are; Cliche’, Jargon, Slang, Sexiest and Racist Language, Euphemisms, and Doublespeak. The following paragraphs discussed these six major barriers.

As it is stated in the course textbook by Saylor, (n. d), “a cliche’ is a once-clever word or phrase that has lost its impact through overuse”. As a matter of fact, cliches come from all over the world and can be easily misinterpreted, or interpreted differently. Therefore they may sound boring or silly to the message receiver. Although people may sometime use cliches ignorantly, some may use them as a symptom of laziness since they do not want to take the effort to search for the original meaning of the word. An example of cliche is “lost track of time”. This simply means you stopped paying attention to time or to how long something was taking.

An example of cliche that I have used in the past and how it hampered my ability to communicate was “time will tell”. I used this cliche in respond to a question from a business customer’s question. To his understanding, he though our company had no time to handle his project immediately. Whereas my original meaning was that the project will

These words or expressions have their universally accepted meaning which is quite different from the meaning used by this group. Slangs sometimes are similar to jargons and are at times newly created words to replace the standard or traditional words with the purpose of including an unconventional, nonstandard, humorous, or rebellion effect. An example of slang is “phat”. This means something is cool. A lot of individual may fail to understand this if they are not accustomed to some western