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COMMON COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
Organizational communication consultants estimate that 10 percent of all business failures result from ineffective communication. Read more from the website http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/mental_health_supervision/33088.

Each year, thousands of hours are lost in the workplace because of:


 * 1) repeated orders,
 * 2) misunderstandings,
 * 3) errors, and
 * 4) repetitive tasks.

Read more from the website http://www.pstcc.edu/facstaff/dking/interpr.htm

For Further Reading See the website http://www.kevinhogan.com/habits-ineffective-communicators.htm

Mismanaged Information


Inadequate Communication Skills


Inappropriate Communication Skills
 Inadequate communication skills result in material that is:
 * poorly organised,
 * overwritten,
 * full of grammatical, stylistic, and spelling errors,
 * not taking the listener into account,
 * too formal,
 * too casual.

Inadequate Feedback


Communication Anxiety


Are you an ineffective communicator? Go to the following website and find out. http://www.sfhelp.org/02/lose_lose.htm

SUMMARY
Comunication must remain aware of the problems associated with a lack of informationa and poor-quality information. Inadequate feedback can cause problems for communicators by failing to complete the communication process. All too often