Many people think that communicating is easy. Every person knows to communicate with other people. But there is some obstacles that make it complex and difficult.
What makes it complex and difficult are the barriers we put in the way.
Here are the 7 top barriers.
1. Semantic barriers
2. Physical Barrier
3. Psychological barriers
4. Emotional barriers
5. Gender barriers
6. Perceptual barriers
7. Barriers involving attitudes.
1. Semantic Barrier
A basic principle of communication is that the symbols the sender uses to communicate messages must have the same meaning in both the sender’s and receiver’s minds. You can never be sure that the message in your mind will be clearly sent to your receiver. The world is full with errors, as a result of differences in semantic (meaning) understanding.
2. Physical Barriers:
Communication does not consist of words alone. Another set of barriers is caused by your own physical appearance, your audience, or the context of the document or the presentation. Your ideas, however good and however skillfully imparted, are at the mercy of various potential physical barriers. Like Writing and Speaking
For Writing
There is a whole barrage of possible physical blocks, jammed or jagged margins, fingerprints or smudges, unclear photocopies, unreadable word processor printout, water or coffee, tea spots etc
For Speaking
Mumbling, not pronunciation, speaking too quickly, blowing air conditioning, ringing telephones, slamming doors etc.
3. Psychological Barriers
Physiological barriers may result from individuals' personal discomfort, caused, for example, by ill health, poor eye sight or hearing difficulties.
Because of the changing world, everyone has his own concept of reality. Also, human beings, sensory perceptions (opinion), touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste are limited, and each person’s mental filter is unique. In our daily interaction with others, we make various abstractions, deduction and evaluations of the world around us.
4. Emotional Barriers
One possible psychological block is emotional, you may be emotionally block is you are announcing a new policy you may become popular or unpopular. First your presentation be
Writing someone you dislike other may feel hostile.
5. Gender barriers
There are distinct differences between the speech patterns in a man and those in a woman. A woman speaks between 22,000 and 25,000 words a day whereas a man speaks between 7,000 and 10,000. In childhood, girls speak earlier than boys and at the age of three, have a vocabulary twice that of boys.
The reason for this lies in the wiring of a man's and woman's brains. When a man talks, his speech is located in the left side of the brain but in no specific area. When a woman talks, the speech is located in both hemispheres and in two specific locations.
This means that a man talks in a linear and logical way, features of left-brain thinking; whereas a woman talks more freely mixing logic and emotion, features of both sides of the brain. It also explains why women talk for much longer than men each day.
6. Perceptual barriers
The perceptual problem is that people think differently.
The problem with communicating with others is that we all see the world differently. If we didn't, we would have no need to communicate: something like extrasensory perception would take its place.
It may involve in two ways. For example you are talking about the Politics in Pakistan
7. Attitudinal barriers:
It is the result of problems with staff in an organization.
These may be brought about, for example, by such factors as poor management, lack of consultation with employees, personality conflicts which can result in people delaying or refusing to communicate, the personal attitudes of individual employees which may be due to lack of motivation or dissatisfaction at work, brought about by insufficient training to enable them to carry out particular tasks, or just resistance to change due to entrenched attitudes and ideas.
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