Communication Articles

Business » Communication | By Laurie Weiss @ Tuesday, 8th May 2007 @ 11:47 AM

Janet's career as a software engineer appeared to be stalled. She completed each low level assignment competently, but felt ineffective in team meetings. When Janet asked for more challenging work, she was ignored, while other team members made similar requests and got the choice assignments. Janet struggled along as best she could and tried hard to support others and be a good team player. She kept wondering why no one took her seriously. She had no idea that her team leader believ... more...

Business » Communication | By Gail Solish @ Monday, 7th May 2007 @ 11:02 PM

Leadership is defined as the capacity or ability to guide others to accomplish an objective. To provide leadership, one needs to be a leader. The following is a quote that captures the essence of a great leader: The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake." The five most important words: "You did a good job." The four most important words: "What is your opinion?" The three most important words: "If you please." The two most im... more...

Business » Communication | By John Khu @ Friday, 4th May 2007 @ 9:28 AM

Communication is the process of sharing information. In a simplistic form information is sent from a sender or encoder to a receiver or decoder. Communication can be: 1. Verbal communication which requires language. A language is a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols which communicate thoughts or feelings 2. Non verbal communication, which does not need language to exchange ones thoughts. Silence is the best example. In certain cont... more...

Business » Communication | By Laurie Weiss @ Thursday, 3rd May 2007 @ 6:41 PM

A manager who coaches others needs to provide feedback that keeps them focused and on track. Feedback is also a critical element for working out relationships with coworkers, friends and family members. Unfortunately, "feedback" can become a euphemism for not very constructive criticism. Feedback can and should be a way of helping another person become more effective. You can help others increase their effectiveness by helping them to understand both what you observed about their... more...

Business » Communication | By Anna Woodward @ Wednesday, 2nd May 2007 @ 1:49 PM

Pagers are small telecommunication appliances that receive and transmit (depending on the model) both warning and alert signals and in some cases short text messages. This kind of gadget is suitable for people waiting for a telephone call, but who are not in the near vicinity of a telephone in order to make or return a call instantly. Until recent times, pagers were fabricated only as receiver devices. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, two-way communication cell phones a... more...

Business » Communication | By Melih Oztalay @ Wednesday, 2nd May 2007 @ 9:21 AM

The job of the CEO, everyone knows, is to make decisions. And most of them do - countless times in the course of their tenures. But if those decisions are to have an impact, the organization must also, as a whole, decide to carry them out. Companies that don't, suffer from a culture of indecision. In his 2001 article, Ram Charan, one of the world's preeminent counselors to CEOs, addresses the problem of how organizations that routinely refrain from acting on their CEOs'... more...

Business » Communication | By Adrian Kennelly @ Monday, 30th April 2007 @ 12:32 AM

The essentials which go to make up a good business letter may be divided into two classes - mechanical make-up, and contents. Before a letter can come into existence the mechanical side must be attended to. The subject matter may be pertinent and well composed and yet the letter itself be so arranged typo-graphically and so disposed on the page that the unity of the whole is lost. The display as a whole should balance. Before the stenographer starts the address, calculation should be mad... more...

Business » Communication | By Nick Wood @ Thursday, 26th April 2007 @ 9:42 AM

Whatever product or service you market on your website, you undoubtedly receive any number of enquiries from both your existing and potential customers. How well do you handle these communications? Do you even want to receive questions from your web customers in the first place? Sales are at stake here, so let us look at this issue. If you equate a sales orientated website with a bricks and mortar shop, (and it is my suggestion that that is exactly what it is, in the cyber age), then I wo... more...

Business » Communication | By Richard Reichmann @ Wednesday, 25th April 2007 @ 11:41 AM

How can I understand podcasting? If you were to ask someone on the street what podcasting is, most of them will not have any idea what you are talking about. They will ask if you said "broadcasting." You might explain to them that it is a special audio file that you can listen to on your MP3 player. But even then you would not be doing it justice. Here are some other ways of understanding what podcasting is. That is one way to think of podcasting: the information that y... more...

Business » Communication | By Myelita Melton @ Monday, 23rd April 2007 @ 12:47 AM

Many Americans are learning Spanish to meet both business and personal goals. If you are one of the millions of visionary Americans taking on this challenge, bravo! In business, speaking Spanish will help you attract loyal customers and a diverse employee base. By speaking Spanish in your personal life, you will meet fascinating people from around the world-- and you'll build valuable, long-lasting friendships. For adults learning foreign languages can be challenging. You ar... more...

Business » Communication | By Robert Bentz @ Wednesday, 18th April 2007 @ 3:47 PM

Text messaging to students at Virginia Tech would have been a better way to notify students of the horrors happening on campus. The horrors of what happened in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 16 are now starting to come forward with chilling details. A great university is in mourning and a very safe city is starting to wonder if anywhere in the world is still safe. As always seems to be the case in unprecedented situations, criticism is directed at public safety entities and the uni... more...

Business » Communication | By Anna Woodward @ Wednesday, 18th April 2007 @ 1:30 PM

Two way pagers are a substitute for cell phones. Owning a two way pager means you can both send and receive messages (words and numbers) from your pager therefore replacing other more expensive communication devices. There is a great number of firms that sell two-way pagers thus getting one is relatively easy and it can be done without any effort over the internet since most companies have websites and provide delivery services. Taking into consideration the busy lifestyle of the ... more...

Business » Communication | By Ashley Truitt @ Tuesday, 17th April 2007 @ 9:47 AM

If you work in an environment where you deal with people on a regular basis, it is important that you master a few image management rules. For example, models are required to look fabulous day in and day out. It's the wow factor nature of the fashion business so models take to great lengths to ensure they look their best all the time. Corporate jobs, while not as runway glamorous, also require a certain level of presentable-ness. You know what they say...to be successful, you must p... more...

Business » Communication | By Robert Bentz @ Tuesday, 10th April 2007 @ 5:32 PM

In little more than a decade, 900 number service has undergone considerable evolution beginning as a simple polling mechanism to an information and entertainment vehicle and finally, to the powerful, interactive marketing tool it is today. Actually, the first use of information by phone began long before the introduction of 900 service. New Jersey Bell, in 1927, and New York Telephone, in 1928, created a recorded time of day service to alleviate the burden of such requests made to its op... more...

Business » Communication | By Amy Nutt @ Thursday, 5th April 2007 @ 2:45 PM

Over the years, companies have searched for many solutions that would help them keep up with emerging technology. During that time, there have been many software packages developed specifically for corporations that deal with a high volume of customers over a short period of time. That is one reason why speech recognition is now being used in a variety of settings to help customers obtain answers to questions, pay bills, and conduct numerous other business-related tasks that traditionally requ... more...

Business » Communication | By Gail Solish @ Thursday, 5th April 2007 @ 2:41 PM

At some point in our lives most of us will be working for someone else, so it is important to fully understand what makes our boss tick and how best to interact and influence him or her. How much attention have you given to your boss's personality style? How does she function? What seems to agitate or please her? If we have a difficult boss we focus on what drives us crazy. If we have a great boss we tend to take things for granted. Recognizing the factors which contribute to creating... more...

Business » Communication | By Louis Bonaventura @ Thursday, 5th April 2007 @ 12:35 PM

There is more to effective communications than just being able to express yourself verbally. You must be willing and able to listen to others! Learning to listen is more than half the battle. Listening is the way you learn what is going on and how it affects people. Usually, when there is a problem in an organization, it's because the leader hasn't listened to what is going on until it's too late and the situation has occurred. There are two things you can do to g... more...

Business » Communication | By Tomaz Mencinger @ Monday, 26th March 2007 @ 6:12 PM

Web conferencing services are becoming more and more popular and necessary. With more businesses going global and more and more employees working from home, many businesses have adopted a conferencing service of one type or another. Depending on the needs of the business, utilizing web conferencing services may be the best solution. Web conferencing services include the ability to share documents, make presentations and confer with anyone from around town or the world! With the use of you... more...

Business » Communication | By Laurie Weiss @ Thursday, 22nd March 2007 @ 5:44 AM

Yvonne, an executive, feels paralyzed by her boss' new rules that require her to get approval for even the smallest expenditures. Yvonne is also representing her company in merger negotiations. The potential partner considers her boss expendable, and has asked her to stick it out until their process is complete. The negotiations are going slowly. She wonders whether to get out now or stay on, hoping things will change. Marianne's new boss did not trust her. All her routine reque... more...

Business » Communication | By Tomaz Mencinger @ Tuesday, 20th March 2007 @ 4:49 AM

The primary goal of any dynamic business is to save time and, ultimately, money. Video conferencing services offer the most innovative tool available in today's fast paced marketplace to accomplish both of these goals. By utilizing the many advantages of virtual face-to-face communication from the comfort of their office, forward thinking entrepreneurs have an opportunity to achieve overwhelming success in time management and financial savings. With the collaboration of advanced comp... more...