Communication breakdown?

From time to time, we all find ourselves in situations where we a suffering from a communications breakdown.  I don’t imagine it means very much unless it happens to you all the time.  However, I had to ask myself what I could do recently when I found myself in this situation.

I decided that there really was only one way forward; to simply state what it was I felt and what I wanted.  After all, I’m an expert on these aspects of the situation.  We can debate so called ‘facts’, but no one can tell us how we feel.  If I’m prepared to be honest about these things, and also encourage the other parties to do likewise, and listen to them we have a ‘map’ of what is and a sense of what might be possible.  This is a good place to start from as it not only does away with speculation, but it also builds a little trust which makes subsequent steps easier to take.

What ways have you found in breaking through this impasse?  What has worked for you?

“Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.”

Tags: communication breakdown, Communication strategies, communications failure

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