This document discusses barriers to communication such as semantic, organizational, interpersonal, individual, cross-cultural, technological, and physical barriers. It also provides recommendations for overcoming these barriers, which include fostering good relationships, being purposeful and focused, providing feedback, using clear and accurate language, having flat organizational structures and communication policies, properly dividing labor, and reducing semantic problems.

1. Barriers to Communication
• Sementic
• Organizational
• Inter-personal
• Individual
• Cross-cultural
• Technological
• Physical/channel/media

2. Overcoming Barriers
• Fostering Good relationship
• Purposeful and well directed/focused
• Co-ordination
• Avoid technical language
• Feedback
• Accuracy
• Clarity
• Flat Orgainzational Structure
• Organizational Policies
• Proper Communication Channels
• Division of labour
• Reduction of semantic problems