Communication Barriers

COMMON BARRIERS
I     You
___ ___ 1. Lack of awareness of or need to address personal issues. Common ones are
___ ___ 2. Need to be RIGHT
___ ___ 3. Judging the worth of your own and the others’ feelings. A better way is to RESPECT feelings
___ ___ 4. Believing that you must AGREE
___ ___ 5. Desire to change the other
___ ___ 6. Feeling threatened because the other is changing/has changed
___ ___ 7. Failure to address issues as they arise
___ ___ 8. Failure to LISTEN or “listening with your answer running.” Hearing is not listening
___ ___ 9. QUESTIONING, INTERROGATING, e.g. Why do you feel that way? What’s wrong? Why don’t you.....?
___ ___ 10. Giving MIXED MESSAGES e.g., I like you the way you are. Then telling the other what is wrong with him/her
___ ___ 11. Mixing up THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. If you say, “I feel that...” you are probably describing your thoughts or your judgments rather than getting in touch with you emotions.
___ ___ 12. WITHDRAWING. Being physically present but preoccupied with work, other activities, the newspaper, TV, computer, etc.
___ ___ 13. LECTURING. The listener “gets lost” after three sentences.
___ ___ 14. MANIPULATING
___ ___ 15. BLAMING
___ ___ 16. ALWAYS, NEVER, etc. Any absolutes
___ ___ 17. ONE UPPANCE, My problem is bigger than yours
___ ___ 18. SARCASM
___ ___ 19. VERBAL ABUSE
___ ___ 20. JUSTIFICATION
___ ___ 21 + OTHERS
Compare your responses. If your responses are similar, you have isolated those areas which need work. If your responses are dissimilar, explore the possibility that you are not honestly addressing your real issues


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