Communication to Family and Work Relations One

¶ … Communication to Family and Work Relations

One of the important problems that I have always encountered at work and in my family is the inevitable misunderstanding among people due to lack of or simply through wrong communication. By the absence of communication, I refer to the conflict that arises among people when they do not communicate about a problem at all. Wrong communication, meanwhile, is the misunderstanding (and even conflict) that arise when people contemplated a problem in an inefficient manner. I referred to both absence of and wrong communication because these are the main causes of conflicts that I usually have with my family and colleagues, respectively.

At work, wrong communication is an almost everyday and common occurrence. With the advent of new communication technology such as e-mailing, teleconferencing, and mobile communications, it is not at all surprising that people become confused and disorganized when it comes to keeping note of and updating the steady stream of messages entering one's e-mail account of mobile phone every second, minute and hour of the day.

Despite the presence of these mobile communication technologies, people still experience conflict due to miscommunication. I myself was a victim of this phenomenon, having missed out on a particularly important e-mail or simply misunderstanding the message expressed in an e-mail, resulting to a conflict with a colleague. Worse, I was not able to work on my task efficiently because I failed to take note of an instruction sent through e-mail, an e-mail that could have changed the outcome of my work had I found the time to at least read it before getting my job done.

Lack of communication, meanwhile, commonly occurs in families who have less or no time in their hands and more things to do everyday. My decision to dispose of a particular item in the house without consulting my father about it led to a week-long conflict with him, worsened by the fact that I still failed to communicate with him even after he had expressed anger at not being informed about my decision. It was only after talking the problem out with him that this conflict was resolved. Evidently, it only needs little time and more attention to communicating with family members, things that make the difference between an antagonistic and harmonious family relationship.