Workplace-Communication
Communication Style, Meeting the Personality Style of Those You Speak To
If you match your communication style with the personality style of those you speak to, you can improve your communication skills. To do so, you need to understand the personality and behavioral styles of the audience. Read more →Communication Tips to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome Thrive in Your Work Place
Your new employee has the skills you were looking for and is dedicated to doing the job well. The challenging part for a person with Asperger Syndrome is the less structured, more social aspects of office culture. Read more →Communication Workout: How to Keep Your Communication in Tip-Top Shape
Who can escape the daily onslaught of innovative ways to shape up, trim down, remove unwanted wrinkles and hair, and any other undesirable features in an effort to essentially redesign ourselves? Read more →Communication: The Lifeblood of a Project
As blood flows, it pumps oxygen through the body to sustain life. Likewise, communication is the lifeblood of projects and organizations. Just as the heart works to distribute oxygen throughout the body, the project manager continuously circulates project information from the external stakeholders to the project plan documentation, to the internal stakeholders, to the project plan. Read more →Communications: I Never Seem To Say It Right
The ability to effectively communicate with employees is key to the success of the manager and the organization. Clear, concise communication, delivered with understanding, honesty and often empathy, can make the difference between whether the manager? Read more →Conference Call Tips
Before the meeting- Send out a schedule showing the time and date of your meetings, including time zones- Write the month as a word to avoid confusion- Send any documents needed for the meeting early enough for the recipients to review them - Notify participants of the telephone number, security code and the conference commands- Send an agenda - and stick to it At the Start of the Conference Call - Write down the names of people as they join so that you can remember who is on the call- If the conferencing equipment you are using allows it, play back the names of the participants so that everyone knows who is on the call- If any participants have not met, make introductions - Request participants to mute their lines if they are not speaking- Explain the purpose of the meeting and how long it will take During the Meeting Participants should:- Join the conference call from somewhere quiet- Say their name before speaking and address each other by name- Resist side conversations- Mute their lines when not speaking, this has a huge impact on overall sound quality- Try not to put the conference on hold, it will put music into the conference- Face the microphone when using a speakerphone and not put anything in front of the microphone Speaker Phones- Avoid tapping on the table or shuffling papers near speakerphones- Always mute the speakerphone before moving it- Some speakerphones will cause feedback when the volume is set too high- If the sound coming out of your speakerphone seems intermittent or quite and you have already turned the volume up, try muting it For more articles on teleconferencing services, visit http://www. Read more →Conference Calls: Building Remote Sales Teams
Scheduled Conference CallsTelephone conference calls are rated by sales team members as being almost as effective as face-to-face sales team meetings, but are much more convenient. Read more →Conflict at Work May Be the Snake Under the Rug (Part 1 of 2)
Once upon a time there was a rug merchant who saw that a beautiful carpet he acquired had a large bump in its center. He gently stepped on the bump to flatten it out. Read more →Conflict at Work May Be the Snake Under the Rug (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this two-part article series, I discussed the price of silence during organizational or interpersonal problems at work. I called such silence ? Read more →Conflict Avoidance: Don't Let It Ruin Your Business
Recently I shared with my readers a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt, who said: "Do one thing every day that scares you." I asked you to send me your stories about doing something that scared you in the service of your own progress and growth. Read more →← Previous Next →
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