A project team of telecommuters located in three different time zones regularly misses project deadlines. Daily meetings often start and end with the same person talking and the rest of the team liste

Interpersonal communication refers to face-to-face or direct personal exchange, which is a format consideration, not the specific missing interactive element.

When only one person talks and others listen, communication flows in a single direction, which prevents the team from surfacing issues, asking questions, or confirming understanding. Feedback and response communication transforms the exchange into a dialogue, allowing the project manager to detect misunderstandings and the team to raise concerns that may be causing missed deadlines. This is the core mechanism absent in the described meetings.

Push communication means distributing information to recipients without expecting a response, which is already what is happening and is therefore the problem, not the solution.

Pull communication means recipients retrieve information on demand, which is not relevant to the synchronous daily meeting context described.