Where is your organization at in its life-cycle? Is it large or growing rapidly? As more people are added to an organization, employee communication needs and stresses increase exponentially. Joe, who used to do purchasing, inspection and warehousing on his own now needs to talk to three other departments as well as the people in his own growing team. What structures, systems and processes has your organization put in place to encourage and facilitate effective workplace communication flow?
In any relationship communication is the key to a strong business relationship. This can be the relationship between business and customer equally as important, the internal relationships among different employees within the company.
Poor communication is a result of the fact that the people with the information are still processing it themselves, and haven’t distanced themselves enough from the problem to discover that there are other people around them who will also be requiring that information.
Poor communication is an important issue to overcome in the workplace, though it may not always be easy.
When resolving the situation in your workplace, remember to give it time, and motivate the employees properly.
Job frustration and conflicts often arise due to ineffective communication or poor relationships in the workplace.
But the advent of a new decade offers talent managers the opportunity to make a New Year’s resolution to communicate more effectively with employees and improve workplace relationships thereby creating a high-performing work environment.
Poor communication does account for a multitude of workplace woes including interpersonal conflict, wasted money and effort, poor productivity legal exposure, low morale and high turnover but the types and causes of communication problems vary as widely as their impact.
Communication problems are almost always solvable. Before you can attack the problem, however, you will need to make an informed assessment of the sources of your organization’s difficulties.
Poor communications in the workplace is a condition which never manifests itself in any positive way.
When one department will not or cannot communicate effectively with another, a breakdown in communication hobbles any possible interaction between them.
