What are the basic Pitfalls and Barriers in communication?

Hey Ali,

I hope you are doing good?

I think ther are7 barriers for effective comunication which i have qouted from a website are:

1. Lack of Sensitivity to Receiver.  A breakdown in communication may result when a message is not adapted to its receiver.  Recognizing the receiver’s needs, status, knowledge of the subject, and language skills assists the sender in preparing a successful message.  If a customer is angry, for example, an effective response may be just to listen to the person vent for awhile. 

2. Lack of Basic Communication Skills.  The receiver is less likely to understand the message if the sender has trouble choosing the precise words needed and arranging those words in a grammatically-correct sentence. 

3. Insufficient Knowledge of the Subject.  If the sender lacks specific information about something, the receiver will likely receive an unclear or mixed message.  Have you shopped for an item such as a computer, and experienced how some salespeople can explain complicated terms and ideas in a simple way?  Others cannot.

4. Information Overload.  If you receive a message with too much information, you may tend to put up a barrier because the amount of information is coming so fast that you may have difficulty comfortably interpreting that information.  If you are selling an item with twenty-five terrific features, pick two or three important features to emphasize instead of overwhelming your receiver (ho-hum) with an information avalanche.

5. Emotional Interference.  An emotional individual may not be able to communicate well.  If someone is angry, hostile, resentful, joyful, or fearful, that person may be too preoccupied with emotions to receive the intended message.  If you don’t like someone, for example, you may have trouble “hearing” them."

Source: http://www.marin.edu/buscom/index_files/Page565.htm

I hope that helps ...

BR,

Abdulaziz

I agree with most of the answers submitted by all my friends.

I agree with the previous inputs and would like to add, the a common communication barrier (either horizontallt or vertically) is the unclear distinguish between the confidentiality that shouldn't be communicated and the important information but shouldn't be classified. This ambiguity mostly clear gap in communication.

Also, most managers are not conducting feedback and breanstorming sessions with the team to communicate; this create ambiguity in the work place. Or they only communicate with departments heads and leaving the executives with no clear vision.

Lack of clear , affirmative and effective communication is due to lack of knowledge, no clarity in thoughts, lack of medium (language), lack of confidence, clustered thoughts, fear of being accepted right way, misunderstandings etc

I agree with the firest

Physical barriers, Perceptual, Emotional, Cultural, Language barriers Gender and Interpersonal barriers

 Nepotism or 'clout' or 'who you know'.

I am not a specialist in that

And thank you to take advantage of the information

I will continue answers