Communicating With Style
Most of us know we can improve our communication skills, but we don’t always know where to start.
Most of us know we can improve our communication skills, but we don’t always know where to start.
We’re familiar with physically flexing our muscles. Most of us have muscle tightness, and when we try to stretch or flex those muscles, they hurt temporarily.
No matter how much we communicate, sometimes we’re just not on the same frequency.
Given our desire to foster a casual, fast-response work environment, we have forgotten many of the rules of etiquette, or electronic etiquette, as well as good old-fashioned civility.
Most of us are so bombarded with email that we spend as little time as possible determining whether a message is worth a thorough read.
We’ve all been there. Our intention was to be helpful, useful, or clear, but our execution failed because we stepped into a major communication pitfall.