Recognizing Communication Problems

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Summary: Many people are unable to recognize communication problems. Learn how to prevent offenses in conversations from a communications instructor and professional speaker in this free video.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Recognizing Communication Problems

Alright, we want to talk about recognizing that there are communication problems. And you might not realize that you are being offensive. I think a lot of people that are offensive communicators out there don't really have a clue that they're being offensive. But the best way to start to investigate if you might be is to start paying attention body language. And I'm talking about with the people that you work with, I'm talking about the people in your family, the people that you have relationships with. Sometimes the body language can be very obvious. Like the person won't even look at you, they won't be in the same room with you. The verbal communication is almost non-existent. That is a pretty obvious way to recognize that there's a problem. But sometimes there are subtler ways to see that there could be a problem. When you communicate with people, whatever you say to them. What you want to do is you want to watch their reaction. What do they do with their face? What do they do with their body? Do they seem shocked? Or do they laugh? How are people physically responding to what you say? This is how you will begin to recognize what kind of communicator you are. If you're communicating in a positive way or if you're communicating in a negative way, just kind of out there just vomiting all over the people in the world and they're getting really really offended by you.