This activity will examine several of the barriers related to problems with communication.

Learners examine how language can interfere with clear communication. They select examples of ambiguity, assuring expressions, doublespeak euphemisms, jargon, emotive content, false implications, meaningless comparisons, and vagueness. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.

Learners read about nonverbal communication. In a drag-and-drop exercise, they evaluate photos of people interacting and determine if the behaviors shown interfere with communication or enhance it.

Learn about the seven common barriers of listening and evaluate a conversation using the barriers.

Learners examine the seven most common barriers to effective listening and consider suggestions for how to overcome these barriers. This interactive object contains audio.

Learners examine the psychological and sociological barriers that interfere with clear communication. They select examples of ad hominem fallacy, bandwagon fallacy, emotional appeals, red herrings, irrelevant appeals to authority, suggestibility and conformity, “poisoning the well’, and “shoehorning.” In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.

The learner will identify ways to overcome barriers to critical thinking and problem-solving including false memories, personal biases and prejudices, and physical and emotional hindrances.

In this learning activity you'll examine strategies to help you deal with tricky personal and business communication situations.

In this learning activity you'll outline a conversation using the transactional communication model. The print and Email function has been disabled. You may take a screenshot of the last screen if needed.

The learners will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.

In this activity, students practice recognizing the different types of noise in the communication process.

The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.

Learners examine seven basic human limitations that prevent people from seeing or understanding the world with total clarity. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome those barriers to critical thinking.

In this learning activity you'll explore communication tendencies from a list and identifies them as typically “male” and “female”.

The learner will identify techniques to use to overcome people-related barriers to critical thinking.

In this learning activity you'll review definitions then match the transactional communication model element with the definition or example.

The learner will identify common barriers to effective listening.

In this learning activity you'll reflect on possible behavior choices and their impact on communication.

The learner will explore basic human limitations that create barriers to critical thinking including selective thinking, false memories, and perceptual limitations.

In this learning activity you'll view a graphical layout of the transactional communication model.