Poor communication is often the result of multiple factors. However, please indicate below the five items which you believe are the most serious barriers to effective communication in groups.

1. Sender has poor knowledge of subject or is inadequately prepared.

2. Sender does not believe in message or policy behind it.

3. Receiver has poor knowledge of subject or is inadequately prepared.

4. Receiver is not interested in subject.

5. Sender or receiver is temporarily preoccupied.

6. Unintentional failure of people to say what they mean.

7. Sender and receiver have very different vocabularies.

8. Cultural differences between communicators.

9. Professional difference between communicators.

10. Communicators have different assumptions.

11. Status differences (as leader-member) between communicators.

12. One of the communicators has negative or hostile reactions to the other .

13. One of the communicators tends to be a "yes man" to the other.

14. One or both parties is unintentionally miscommunicating.

15. Outside interference or distractions.

16. Pressure of time.

17. Inadequacy of words to express difficult concepts, relationships or situations.

18. Same words have different meanings.

19. Inadequate feedback system.

20. Sender and receiver belong in different sub-groups.

21. Differences in age between persons.

22. (Add any other you've identified.)