2. PowerPoint Game and Principles of
Effective Communication.
Throughout this presentation I will be explaining how barriers of communication
can affect the interaction with the power point game.
Of course, a PowerPoint game may be very important depending on the situation
you are in; if you were accepted in a job interview and you have been given a
quiz/game to do, and you have no understanding of the English language because
they come from a different country, then this would be a barrier to
communication. Therefore, a solution should be found to overcome this barrier.
I will give ideas and solutions to how to overcome these barriers whether it’s by
using simple knowledge or high tech gadgets.
3. Principles of Effective Communication
You must know your audience and take into account different
ethnicities.
You must understand that giving feedback and having objections is
good contribution in a meeting, however, you must be
objectionable in a manor that does not offend anyone or intimidate
anyone.
Using different types of communication techniques will help people
understand better the topic you are talking about and in which way
you are talking to them, e.g. intimidating, nicely, funny, etc.
Trying to get everyone involved will help you to get feedback from
others.
Make sure you know what you are talking about and what your
purpose is.
4. Principles of Effective Communication
• You have many different types of communications that apply
in different situations.
For example, written communication skills apply only when you
are writing an email, letter, message, etc. You must prepare
the written communication well so that you give good
impressions.
Interpersonal communication skills are useful to when you are
talking to someone face to face. As well as that, it is useful for
when you are broadcasting a message to many other people.
And also, general communication skills that include many
different ways of communicating. The way you communicate
will depend on the situation you are in for that skill of
communication to apply.
5. Potential Barriers to Communication
• When in a presentation, many things could go
wrong. One of those barriers are distractions.
Throughout the next couple of slides, I will
show and point out the distractions in
communications.
6. Potential Barriers to Communication
Noise distractions – Background noise
Before giving a presentation you must quickly review what potential barriers to
communication there may be. One of those potential barriers that often
happens is that there may be background noise which will prevent you from
getting through to the listeners. In such cases as these, you have a lot of
different things you could do to stop and reduce the background noise.
One of the actions you could take is, wait for the audience quite down (if it is
the audience) or even ask them to quit down in a manor that will not offend or
intimidate the audience. However, sometimes presentations can be interrupted
by such simple things as (re-)construction in a nearby area. This means that
you will have a very hard time to try and stop the distractions, in such
situations you must make sure that you have some sort of presentation, titles,
subtitles, notes, etc. So that that audience can see, this will help them to hear
you better and understand what you are talking about. Also, you must speak
out clearly and loud.
7. Potential Barriers to Communication
Cultural Differences
Cultural differences can be a big issue when you do not consider other peoples input
and culture. For example, in a business meeting with people from different places, for
example, some people from a certain country/area may speak louder to try and make
everyone feel involved; some people from a different country/area may feel intimidating
by this loud voice so they may feel uninvolved and may not contribute any ideas in the
meeting, this will make the meeting unsuccessful. This may even lead to such
intimidation that the person may want to react back to intimidate the other person, this
will cause a lot of trouble.
As well as this, cultural differences means different general communication. This might
mean that they may have different body language. For example, some people may find
the “okay” sign with thumb and index finger touching. This means that they might react
back to offend them back. Therefore, you must always take into account cultural
differences.
