Professional Communication and Its Challenges
Author : Dr. Deepika Agrawal
Abstract :
Communication brings people together. It is the social urge for the subsistence of an individual as everyone needs to confer one’s own feelings, reactions, emotions, information, and facts and figures with others. Communication involves transmission of message verbally or nonverbally through the proper medium in a proper environment for some purpose. Communication is pivotal not only for individuals but for professions where people work together in order to achieve a common goal.
In case communication is a social urge for an individual, it is the lifeline for any Profession. We spend ninety percent of our communicating time at workplace in communication. This is Professional communication that entails oral, written, digital and visual communication within workplace context. But Professional communication does not mean merely workplace activity; it also involves human conduct in those activities. Whenever two or more people come together to work, there is a chance of misunderstanding due to their different social and cultural backgrounds. Also every person has his/her own perception to view the things. People communicate through numerous ways, involving not only words but also facial expression and body language. As there are many ways to communicate it is very important to be sure that one should be clear in their intent while communicating.
It is a great challenge to make communication smooth and effective where so many professional with different languages, social and cultural backgrounds, having different views, opinions, knowledge and perception are working together.
The objective of this paper is to discuss these various challenges in Professional communication and how to handle these challenges in order to make the communication effective.
Keywords :
Profession, communication, language, social, cultural, workplace
