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.

$1$

Feedback barrier

$2$

Encoding barrier

$3$

Receiver barrier

$4$

Medium barrier

$5$

Sender barrier

$6$

Decoding barrier

Match each of the options above to the items below.

Asia is not a very confident person. Although she knows her idea would really improve the team's project, she doesn't say anything.

Warrane is from the French part of Quebec and speaks English as a second language. He sometimes struggles with how to nronerlv nhrase thinas.