Communication can be different things. A conversation between 2 or more people is one way of communicating. Another can be through online communicating, such as email, or social media such as Facebook. It is when there is a correspondence between people, a back and forth give and take.
Someone could improve their career using better communication skills. Looking people in the eye when speaking to them is a good way. Or using the person’s name when addressing them lets them know that you are paying attention. In one’s personal life it helps to always keep good communication and not hold things in and letting them fester. It’s always better to express your feelings in a constructive way to strengthen your communication between people.
My advice is to always use good eye contact when communicating, and do not interrupt people when they are talking to you, no one likes that. People want to know that they are being heard, so do your best to be an active listener too, that is a good measure of a good communicator. Don’t go off topic, stick to what you are discussing and pay attention to your body signals too, you do not want to come off as bored or disinterested. Good luck!
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The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Communication
- Dealing with difficult people. This has been frustrating because people some how expect you to know what is in their heads or for you to know what to say or do. they feel you should know what to say or do, even you have never dealt with a situation before. Instead of explaining what to do they assume you should already know and get mad when you don’t.
- I am involved in helping other through very difficult situation as they do not have any other person in their life to depend on. When too many things happen at one time, I sometimes become overwhelmed. I try to make them aware of my other responsibilities and not call at last minute in crisis as I am unable to help them at that time. I try to help them organized their needs for the week.
- I had to explain to my car pooling buddy who was nagging at me that I couldn’t pick him up this week due to an unforeseen schedule change. They then went on to explain in detail exactly how I was inconveniencing them in every possible way and blaming it on me. I figure I was just frustrated about something else at the time, but it was a long and rather hurtful speech.
- I had to reconcile some figures. I found so frustrating everyone was talking about differences but anyone was able to provide detail to find root cause. It was frustrating because everybody was talking and talking about the problem, blaming one each other, but no taking actions. I like to understand problems, make a plan, take actions, solve problem, learn from the problem and take actions to avoid it to happen again and move on…
- I had two instances where I realized that something wasn’t fully communicated to me and I therefore miscommunicated it to others. It’s frustrating to be wrong and that’s how I’m concerned those instances will be perceived. So, I’ve learned that I need to make sure to ask a few more follow-up questions to make sure I have a good understanding of a situation before I articulate it to others.
- I was reffing a basketball game, and it is really hard to see and the main coach told us not to call everything, so you don’t know what to call and everyone is yelling different things at you. Also a kid that I have known my hole life yelled at me and that was a little angering. It is frustrating because I was not expecting him to yell at me I was expecting him to support me and he didn’t.
- I was very frustrated with my role at work. I’ve been seen as a future leader by my leadership and voiced my interest in taking on new responsibilities. However, I waited six months and was not recognized for my work and leadership skills. Instead of communicating how I felt to my manager, I decided to quit the team I work for and join another in the same company. I regret my actions because I realized afterwards that I should have been better at communicating my frustrations to my manager. I believe I might have received recognition and a pay raise had I handled the situation better.
- It might sounds a bit corny but I hate public speaking because I’m very anxious and have self-conscious problems. Lately I’ve had to do presentations; I ended up stuttering and forgetting what I was suppose to talk about. When ever I look back at these kinds of moment I feel embarrassed and I end up being hard on myself.
- I’ve had to schedule appointments for my church’s ecclesiastical leader with people who are difficult to get a hold of and have unreliable transportation. I don’t like talking on the phone, and I like talking to people’s voice mail even less. I’ve had to reschedule several of them as well, which drug the process out.
- Just a week ago I had to get my residency permit and due to the language barrier here in Cyprus, since I don’t speak any Turkish, I had to make multiple trips to the same office since I didn’t understand what was being explained to me. It was frustrating mainly because I had to travel a lot on foot, moreover, my whole day was wasted which could have been spent more efficiently.
- Limited view of the world. It’s frustrating to hear people discredit or disrespect other’s views of the world. I, personally, love hearing different people’s stories and insights of the world based off their experiences. So, when people devalue those experiences, it almost seems inhumane to me. Everyone’s experiences matter and are worth listening to without judgment.
- Listen to someone describe something they didn’t like about someone else that describes exactly how they themselves are at times. This is frustrating because it’s difficult to help someone through a challenge that they’re looking for advice on when they’re not willing to be honest with themselves or self-aware enough to change their own behavior.
- Listen to someone when I really wanted to be heard. It was frustrating because I want to be treated as an equal by the people I’m surrounded by. And because it makes me feel ignored when I want to talk and someone interrupt me to correct me or make another statement when I wasn’t finished talking or making my point. It is frustrating speacially because I try to respect other people’s time and points of view when they talk.
- Not sure – but probably deal with something where a decision/comments were made by people that, in my opinion, do not fully understand what was going on and will not budge from their stance they are right even though there are other ways to do the actions that need to be performed
- One of the most frustrating things I’ve had to do was apologize. This was frustrating because I had to do so in a situation where what I had done was not a “black and white” wrong. It would’ve been easier had I done something completely “wrong”, inexcusable, or always thought of in a negative connotation.
- People always seem to take a lot of offence at everything I try to say. I try to be nice and explain why I have a certain view on a specific topic but It always seems to end with them getting offended. I don’t discriminate, I don’t like to pull others down and It frustrates me. Im always wondering if Im doing something wrong or are the other people easly offended.
- The most frustrating thing dominating my week is lack of communication from others. Such as being told you will get a call, but do not. Or poor basic etiquette like when someone moves but doesn’t inform of the new address or phone.(I can’t send you a card if you don’t tell me where you live.) But the worst communication problem happens in writing, or lack of. I use Facebook, but I do not consider clicking “Like” as keeping in touch. I like to write, but at times a phone call can be more appropriate, and also keeps things honest! When there is a misunderstanding of a tone or verbiage in email, I find it most frustrating when a person will either jump to the defensive, write back and make it worse, or when their idea of solving a problem is to ignore it altogether. When instead with a meeting or call, most breakdowns in communication could be resolved by talking.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to deal with was disorganization within my sorority. People not having clear instructions on whats going on and bad communication. It really frustrates me when I do not have set plans and when I don’t know what it is I should be doing because of poor communication.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do in the past few days is explain to someone why I couldn’t do something at the time. It was frustrating because I lied about it, but I couldn’t help lying. I feel as though I’ve let them down and that they shouldn’t trust me, when they are supposed to be able to.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do in the past few days was to not dwell on bitter/angry feelings I was having toward someone I cared about who lied and stole from me. It was frustrating because feelings are not something you necessarily choose, however, I took inventory of the effect those feelings were having on me versus the ability those feelings had to change the situation and realized that the only person my feelings were hurting was myself. So the frustration came from my initial feelings to the situation…but ended up making me analyze my feelings and their potential to effect me positively or negatively, which was helpful and freeing.
- The most frustrating thing that I’ve been doing lately is to stop spouting platitudes. I’ve been evaluating the words that come out of my mouth and whether they are true. For instance, “God is in control and He’s going to see Steve through this,” was said without thought. I paused, thought about it, then restated the sentence, adding the reasons that I believed it.
- The most frustrating thing was that I’ve had to deal with someone who refuses to listen to me no matter what, they get stuck up and believe they are better than me. Although that person basically controls my life and I can’t do anything to object. We are two very different people and do not have the same values which makes it difficult for us to get along.
- The most frustrating was listening to two women dominate the entire conversation at my Bible study. I just feel it is inconsiderate and dominating. Those of us who are introverted have a hard time talking anyways, but when I want to talk it is frustrating when can’t get a word in otherwise.
- Trying to explain someone the weakness of their religious views, why was so frustrating? because how do you explain something to someone who first don’t want to listen, second they don’t know what their talking about based on their own bible which they don’t or haven’t read and finally how can you have a fluent logical conversation with someone that based his life in delusions. That is why
- Trying to get people to understand why we are doing something that we have discussed over and over again. It is frustrating because the decision that needs to be made is very obvious. There is no need to over think it. It s frustrating because I’m having the same conversation over and over again especially, something simple and straight forward.
- Trying to make sense of an irrational decision making processes employed by people who should know and have been trained to do better. I can’t understand if this is because this is easy (and they are lazy), because they are really lost (and do not know how to ask for advise), because they do not want to rock the boat (be a non-conformist), or because they are feeding an urgency addition that makes them feel emotionally envigorated (even if the result of their decision is ineffectual).