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Communication Barriers - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The study of communication through body movement and facial expression
        
        Eye contact
        
        Posture
        
        Gestures
        
        Silence
        
        Haptics
        
        Intonations
    - - Intimate distance used for very confidential communications
        
        Personal distance used for talking with family/close friends
        
        Social distance used to handle most business transactions
        
        Public distance used when calling across room or giving talk to group
        
        Office layout
    - - Monochronic time schedule
        
        Things done in linear fashion.
        
        A manager will address the issue A first then move on to issue B (US, Great Britain, Canada and Australia)
        
        Time schedules are very important and time is viewed as something that can be controlled and should be used wisely
      - Polychronic time schedule
        
        People do several things at same time
        
        People place higher value on personal involvement than on getting things done on time.
        
        In these cultures, schedules are subordinated to personal relationships (Latin America, Middle East)