Barriers to Effective Communication

Barriers to effective communication mean the reasons for a breakdown in communication. These breakdowns may be for arising due to

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.

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 may lose its original meaning.
There is lots of physical disturbances in channel of communication used.

The receiver might not be paying attention and thus the message may lose its impact.
In 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 the message.

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