Language Barrier

During an online team meeting, the connection is poor and several team members' audio keeps cutting out. One participant tries to ask a question, but their microphone isn’t working properly, and the others can’t hear them clearly. As a result, confusion arises about the next steps of the project.

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Maria just received criticism from her supervisor and is feeling upset. Later that day, a colleague tries to offer her constructive feedback on her work, but Maria interprets the comments as a personal attack and becomes defensive.

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A new employee receives instructions from a manager who uses a lot of technical jargon and acronyms that the employee is unfamiliar with. As a result, the employee misunderstands the task and completes it incorrectly.

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• Psychological

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A senior engineer tells a new intern to “run a stress analysis on the prototype and check for fatigue failure under cyclic loading.” The intern doesn’t understand the technical terms and misinterprets the task.

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During a team presentation, an employee with partial hearing loss misses key points of the discussion because there’s no microphone and no written summary.

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Honking of cars

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Personal Biases

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Erroneous Grammar

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Messy Hair

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Mispronunciation