Barriers to Communication

To communicate effectively you need to prevent or reduce the barriers to communcation as much as possible. For example, if you are a presenter in a presentation you have to speak crealy and loud enough without any interference for the audience to hear it properly and won't get distracted.


Background Noise
Background nois can be very distractive even if it is only a whistling noise from an air condition.
Examples: air conditioning, people chatting, mobile phones


Distraction
Distraction is something than can cut the attention of the audience and will affect the presentation.
Examples: ringing mobile phone, people late or leaving unexpectedly


Lack of Concentration
Lack of concentration from the audience can affect them from absorbing information from the presentation
Examples: Boredom (because of the presentation), lack of stimulation

Personal Attributes Valued by Employers

      Personal Attributes Valued by Employers

Personal Attribute	Importance to Employers
General
Organisational Skills	Organisational skill is the ability and method relating to planning your work to meet deadlines and targets. In a company in which time is so valuable, organisational skills are important for the employee. Lots of companies set some targets for you to meet and to be able to meet the target you need to set out a plan for your work. Spend your time wisely and make sure no time will be wasted. You will also need to manage which resources you are going to use.
Teamwork	Team work is essential if you are working with another employee. Most employers look for employees who can be effective at all times especially when working on a team because today almost everyone in the company works on team. It is hard to work on a team, if an employee fails his/her task it can result in trouble to the whole group.
Attitude
Creativity	Being creative means you can produce/think of something new and useful. A creative employee would be seen as an extremely positive characteristic as it would enable new and fresh ideas to share to the company. Company would be looking for new ideas for them to improve and they want their workers to share their ideas to the company. Being creative at work which means you are thinking of way to make you more effective would also benefit the company.
Independent	Employers may want someone who is not totally dependent to others and doesn’t need to be told to do next and other obvious work. However employer will not want a new employee to act without consulting the senior group of staff.
Job Specific
Good knowledge of health and safety	Employers will want someone who has knowledge of health and safety at work. If the employee has knowledge on health and safety they will not cause any health and safety issues and will most unlikely breach the health and safety policy of the company. If they breach the policy they may have broken the law under the health and safety. Employers will be in charge of their employee if this happens.
Good technical knowledge	If the employee has a good technical knowledge they will be more effective and independent because they know what they are doing and what needs to be done on the specific job.
Good knowledge of computer security	The same as the health and safety they need to know about computer security against data theft. There is also legislation for data theft. Employers would also want their employee to maintain the computer system they are using.