What is the best way to communicate your ideas, especially when there is a language barrier between you and your subordinates in project environment?

• Use simple words; avoid jargon and acronyms.
• Limit/avoid technical language.
• Speak slowly (don’t shout).
• Articulate words completely.
• Repeat important information.
• Provide educational material in the languages your patients read.
• Use pictures, demonstrations, video or audiotapes to increase understanding.
• Give information in small chunks and verify comprehension before going on.
• Always confirm patient’s understanding of the information - patient’s logic may be different from yours. " "Employee Language Skills

Establish a communication management plan to describe the communication process, Understand the importance of feedback in the communication process, Understand various verbal and nonverbal methods of communication, Understand the common barriers to communication, Utilize various methods to overcome communication and Language barriers such as:

1- Teach them work words, phrases, warnings, and other critical communication elements that are necessary for them to perform to my performance standards 

2- Try to find some one in my team who speaks both languages fluently and let him translate my instructions and feedback properly.

3-Use Visual Methods of Communication

4- Provide Language Lessons Training

5- Try to Translate most of work documents which is regularly used in work.

6- Try to get feedback from them for every instruction to ensure they have understood my instructions.

I will familiar words in place of the unfamiliar, use concrete words in place of the abstract, use short words in place of long, use single words in place of several...

Try to figure what his problems he need to solve at work and surprise him with a solution, a result.

Try to be smart, he will do his best next time to listen and understand you.

Graphic facilitation is one of the very effective ways to communicate across cultural and language barriers. It strengthens understanding and it also helps to break down cultural divides and differences in a project environment. Visualization techniques helps the team members to digest a complex idea in a much shorter space of time, irrespective of culture or first language.

 The best way would be to use drawing/Sketchs to communicate 

USING AUDIO / VIDEO AND TO BE WRITTEN IN COMMON LANGUAGE

The best way is to get down to the understanding level of the subordinates and use very simple language which they can understand. We can use various examples to explain the situation.

The answer to this dilemma lies in whether there is a real communication or culture barrier with the employee or whether the employee is using one's language and cultural differences as a manipulative means to lessen one's workload.

• Translate all relevant documents 
• Use an interpreter,Provide language classes for your employees on the basic language requirements for your business.
• Use visual methods of communication more than audio. 
• Use repetition. 
• Never raise your voice or over-enunciate your words. 
• Use simpler words with fewer syllables. 
• Learn the basics of your employee’s language. 
• Have the employee demonstrate their understanding. 

Drawing is the Language of Engineering, So, the best way would be to use drawing/Sketchs to communicate