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Managers and HR leaders need to understand the nine common causes of miscommunication and how to address them to maximize productivity and encourage team collaboration, even in remote or hybrid working environments.
- You Are Using Poor Grammar.
- You Overthink What You Are Reading Or Writing.
- You Make Too Many assumptions.
While it may seem more annoying than confusing, poor grammar can dramatically change the meaning of what you are trying to say. Even a misplaced comma can alter the entire context for someone who is reading it. In this case, you need to bookmark a grammar page and start studying how to use certain punctuation and phrasing to help you clearly commun...
In either case, it’s important not to overthink your communications. This overthinking can involve your own perceptions that may be the polar opposite of the other person involved in the communication. This leads to different opinions of what the content of a message says and means. For example, if we are already in a bad mood, we may read somethin...
There are those times when people don’t really listen because they think they already know what the person is going to say or they are just busy preparing their own answer. The same idea applies when making assumptions on what you think a person means in their email or text message without actually really reading it for context. It could be that yo...
- Lack of trust. Problem: If you aren’t open and forthright with your colleagues when an issue arises at work, affecting a project, they won’t know when to expect the finished product and they may feel resentful.
- Poor leadership. Problem: Teams rely on managers to clearly communicate ideas, goals, and the group’s overall vision. When a team lacks leadership, they may be left feeling siloed in their work, indecisive about how to move forward with tasks, and unable to lean on others for support.
- Close-mindedness. Problem: Close-mindedness kills innovation and communication at work. If no one feels like they can suggest new ideas or perspectives because of a headstrong manager or colleague, the team culture will suffer.
- Insufficient communication channels. Problem: If it’s 2022 and email is your only communication channel, it’s time to introduce some new tools. Teams with insufficient communication channels (or too many) will have messages that get lost and left unread.
Have you ever presented an idea to a group, and it's met with utter confusion? What's going on here? Katherine Hampsten describes why miscommunication occurs so frequently, and how we can minimize frustration while expressing ourselves better.
In fact, these relationships can be the biggest creators of stress. Often, toxic relationships (toxic friendships exist too), involve lots of poor communication. When communication is less healthy, stress ensues, small problems can become larger problems and resentment can grow.
Jul 21, 2021 · Key points. Interpersonal communication can easily become distorted or inaccurate, based on one's emotions and the other person's interpretation. Taking a step back to ask oneself what the...
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Miscommunication leading to misunderstandings is a common problem regardless of how good a communicator you think you are. Miscommunication happens in all areas of life with our partners, friends and work colleagues. But why do we miscommunicate? Assumptions and Perceptions lead to misunderstandings
