A communication breakdown is a failure to sustain the transmission, understanding, or coordination needed for an exchange or activity. It can involve missing information, incompatible interpretations, technical interruption, or an inability to continue, and participants may recognize the problem immediately or only through later consequences.
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Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.