Barriers to communications:

Noise is one of the forms of barriers to communication. Noise occurs in three forms:

• Channel noise
  
• Environment noise
  
• Semantic (Language) noise

Reasons of communication barriers:

• Differences in perception: Age, nationality, culture, education, occupation, sex, status, personality makes difference in perception.
  
• Jumping to conclusion: We often see what we expect to see and hear, rather than what is actually there.
  
• Stereotyping: We run the risk of treating different people as if they were the same.
  
• Lack of knowledge: Knowledge of the particular subject of discussion is considerably less than yours.
  
• Lack of interest: If someone has no interest to hear any thing, he might not receive the message.
  
• Difficulties with self-expression: You have difficulty in finding the words to convey your ideas.
  
• Emotions: Either receiver or communicator's emotion it will totally distort what you mean to say.
  
• Personality: We may not be able to change the change the personality of others, but at least we should be prepared to consider our own personality to see if a change in our behavior may result in more satisfactory relationship; however unpalatable (unpleasant) this sort of self-analysis may be.