Barriers to

Communication

The communication process itself is by no means a perfect process. A variety of hindrances can potentially prevent a message from being successfully shared. This activity is important because managers should understand how to prevent or mitigate the effects of communication barriers.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of how barriers happen during various steps in the communication process.

Match each example to the step in the communication process where the communication barrier is occurring.

$1$

Encoding barrier

$2$

Receiver barrier

$3$

Medium barrier

$4$

Feedback barrier

$5$

Sender barrier

$6$

Decoding barrier