Use the eight phases of the communication process to analyze a miscommunication you've recently had with a co-worker, supervisor, classmate, teacher, friend, or family member. What idea were you trying to share? How did you encode and transmit it? Did the receiver get the message? Did the receiver correctly decode the message? How do you know? Based on your analysis, identify and explain the barriers that prevented your successful communication in this instance. The sender has an idea 2. The sender encodes the idea as a message. 3. The sender produces the message in a transmittable medium. 4. The sender transmits the message through a channel. 5. The audience receives the message. 6. The audience decodes the message. 7. The audience responds to the message. 8. The audience sends feedback. 1. The sender has an idea- I was talking to a supervisor and I wanted to let him know that the whole staff was working very hard and we were exhausted because jobs were not being distributed evenly. It was an attempt for the supervisor to be notified on why getting done as quickly and efficiently. 2. The sender encodes the idea as a message. - I went in and told the supervisor about the situation and told him that we were all very tired and felt over worked. 3. The sender produces the message in a transmittable medium. - This message was produced through talking face to face with him. 4. The sender transmits the message through a channel. In this instance, there was no channel of transmission as it was done directly. 5. The audience receives the message. - The supervisor received the message as he heard it as I was talking to him. 6. The audience decodes the message. - The supervisor listened to what I said and seemed to understand what I was saying to him. 7. The audience responds to the message. - The response from the supervisor was that he thought we were lazy and didn't want to do any work. 8. The audience sends feedback. - The feedback was that we did not want to work more and needed a break from the work, and the work needed to be distributed evenly. Barriers Describe how the message was encoded and transmitted. The writer worker encoded and transmitted the message about the missing job description of the two departments by directly requesting verbally and through email to the supervisor that he needed the job