Common Barriers of Communication

Common Barriers of Communication

In communicating, you can run into all sorts of barriers, some of which can halt in forwarding a means of effective communication. In this chapter, I observed in my readings about how barriers can halt the effectiveness of communication. The use of filtering refers to when in communicating you do not always send the correct message or you may alter it, bringing what you wanted to be communicated becomes blurred.
The use of upward communication carries barriers, such as lower level employees and upper level management. Those of lower level may not have the experience in which to apply effective communication, and can often tend to misunderstand direction. This can cause an incorrect message to be sent which becomes even more distorted upon delivery up the channels.
An example of this to me is the grape vine; you tell someone something, they tell someone something, and by the time it reaches the end of the vine, the story is completely different.
Other barriers are:
 Selective perception
 Information Overload
 Emotions
 Language
 Silence
 Communication Apprehension
 Lying