Barriers To Effective Communication

Barriers To Effective Communication

In many communications, the message that sent by the sender is not received exactly by the receiver. Besides, it is important that the communicator to keep in track with the sender or receiver.These are few common barriers to effective communication:

Problems with the sender:

• -       The sender may use to technical language or may use ‘jargons’ which are difficult to understand
• -       The sender may speak too quickly which makes it difficult to interpret what he is saying.
• -       The sender initiates a wrong message
• -       The message send by the sender may be too long and due to this the main point to be emphasized may get lost
• -       The sender may have a wrong opinion or perception of the receiver and may not put effort to put across the message in an effective way

Problem with the medium

• -       The message may be lost while transmitting
• -       Using an inappropriate medium may result in the less effective communication
• -       A longer channel of communication will result in distortion of the message and it ay lose its original meaning
• -       There is lots of physical disturbances in channel of communication used

Problems with the receiver

• -       The receiver might not be paying attention and thus message may lose its impact
• -       I many cases, the sender might not be trusted by the receiver and may not act in the intended way
• -       The receiver may not have the necessary skills to understand he message

Problems with the feedback

• -       The feedback may be missing or distorted