Part 1 Review the barriers to communication (filtering, emotions, information overload, differing perceptions). Provide at least one strategy for counteracting or overcoming each one of these barriers. Part 2 Identifying Your Barriers List two recent situations in which you experienced one or more of the barriers to a communication described in the chapter (filtering, emotions, poor listening, information overload, differing perceptions). Analyzing Your Barriers Next, explain in detail how these barriers disrupted the communication process in each situation. Overcoming Your Barriers Finally, list some specific ways that you could overcome or avoid these barriers to communication in similar situations in the future.