Team Building and Workplace Communication For SUCCESS

How we communicate with each other is a complex and often hazardous process. It involves two (or more) people in a dance of listener/speaker and the outcomes can sometimes be frustrating! When communication is in a work context where your job or your reputation is at stake, it is especially important to get it right.

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Have you ever had an e-mail conversation with a new friend or acquaintance and you asked a question, but rather than answering your questions, answer all the other questions, they merely changed the subject, and hit the send button? And then you ask them again but somehow the question gets lost and they still don’t answer you. Indeed, I am told this happens a lot in online dating, and that doesn’t surprise me much. In fact, I was discussing this recently with someone over a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

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Christmas party organisers have taken the true meaning of Christmas -giving – and have implemented this into their policies and shared Christmas parties. So this year, 2010 shared Christmas parties are going to exude the message of sharing and giving, which is at the heart of the Christmas tradition.

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In our world today, people continuously need to communicate at increasing speeds (and from increasing distances) in order to build trust inside and outside their companies. For us, this translates into a focus on creating systems of communication from the executive down to entry level. Externally this means communication in almost the same way.

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The key to highly effective meetings is not what you do during the meeting, but what you do before and after the meeting. Here are four of the practices that we teach.

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Recently I presented a seminar for Apple Computers and a manager brought up the question, “This is all well and good. But how do I apply these ideas to managing my boss?” I winced, because this is tough to teach.

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Communication is the process by which relationships are created, maintained, altered and sometimes destroyed. How well we communicate with others is vital to our success at work and in our personal relationships. Whatever the size of the organisation we work in, our position of authority in that organization, whether we deal with internal or external customers, we all need to communicate effectively with others. At the end of the day, it can even impact on a company’s bottom line.

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Don’t get your news from the guy at the newsstand. Make sure the story is repeated by reliable sources before you pass it on to others. Just imagine if a smear campaign was directed at you, your company, or someone close to you. It’s always better to double check your sources.

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If you have spent any time around kids, either as a parent or babysitter, you have inevitably been called upon to help settle a dispute. “He won’t let me play with the…”, “Tell him to get away from me,” “Why do I always have to sit in the middle?” When the kids are young, you have to show them how to resolve the issue by actually creating a resolution.

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Are you sick and tired of hearing the ‘It’s Not Fair’ battle cry from kids, parents, co-workers and others. Just some personal thoughts and reflections on the process and how to eliminate it from your life.

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