The common barriers to effective communication includes: the use of jargon, emotional barriers, lack of attention, lack of interest, distraction, listening, physical barriers and language barriers. The use of jargon may be over complicated as the person you are communicating with be not understand what you are trying to say. The emotional barriers may be that a person may find it difficult to express their emotions while communicating. Distractions include the environment you are in as it may be a noisy environment. Phones may also be a distraction. Physical barrier may include deaf and blind as it may be difficult to communicate. Language barriers may be the misunderstanding of one’s language or accent.

Language and linguistics may be a barrier to effective communication. When communicating with other people in the same language, the vocabulary used in a message may act as barrier if it is not fully understood by the person you are communicating with. The psychological state of the person communicating may influence how the message is sent, received and perceived. For example anger is psychological barrier because when we are angry we say stuff that we will later regret.

Physiological barrier may be the state of a person. For example if someone is slightly deaf, they may not hear everything that you have said resulting a misunderstanding of the conversation. Attitudinal barrier are the attitude or behavior that prevent people from communicating effectively. An effective communicator should also attempt to overcome their own attitudinal barriers in order to make the communication effective. Poor body language is also a barrier to effective communication. Poor body language is when someone has a negative body language while communicating. For example: when someone is communicating with you but gives you no eye contact at all.

There are many barriers at written communication skills. The first barrier is poor spelling. Poor spelling can cause unprofessional image to the reader as it would be difficult to read with so many spelling mistakes. Another barrier is grammar mistakes. Grammar mistake is when most of your sentences don’t make sense and when you do not structure your sentence appropriately. This can create confusion to the reader. A final barrier of written communication skills is irrelevant content. Irrelevant content is when you are writing about something that nothing got to do with the topic. This can cause confusion and misunderstanding to the reader.