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Author: Vidya Prabhakar
To thrive in today’s competitive business environment, clear and effective communication is necessary. Effective communication forms the basis of successful companies and careers. A well-conveyed message sets the tone of the business and makes an impact – it could take the form of a professionally written email, office memo or a face-to-face conversation.
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Business communication can take the form of interactions between cross-functional teams within the organization or external communication with clients and vendors. External communication is by far more challenging, since the communicator not only represents himself but the organization as a whole. Good communication is vital when your employee makes a phone call, sends an email or meets with a third party representing your company.
Benefits of business communication training
Business communication training appears to be the flavor of the season and rightly so! The reason is effective communication skills have to be developed and honed. Even good communicators can be caught wrong footed and have their skills undermined. A good communication skills training program results in the following benefits:
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- Appreciation of communication dynamics
- Increasing effectiveness with global partners
- Conflict management
- Gaining confidence
Traditional and non-traditional methods can be adopted to train your workforce. You can set the tone by establishing a high standard of in-house communication protocol. Another way to jump start communication training is to connect with companies offer to do onsite training at your place of work. Enquire about customized communication seminars, resources, tools, assessments and workshops tailored to meet the needs of your organization.
Training employees in the art of effective business communication
Business communications aids such as assessments and training will help you develop an engaging communication style in your organization. This will in turn lead to a direct positive impact on your bottom line.
In conclusion, while the organization and its employees may possess ideas and expertise required for organizational growth, it will not be achieved unless they get the idea across to existing clients, vendors and potential clients. This can be easily resolved by focusing on developing and honing the communication skills of the organization as a whole.
About the Author:
Full Name: Vidya Prabhakar – Vidya is a Chartered Accountant and a Psychology postgraduate. She has worked in finance, banking and the content development industry. Reading, writing, baking and needle crafting are among her many pursuits.
(Chillibreeze offers communication skills training and testing to companies all over India. Read more about our corporate workshops and testing services. For more details email us at testing at chillibreeze dot com)
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A good article. this should be more apt for today’s Mall culture of India……They need to polish the brats who have to sell international brands to the yuppy Indian buyer segment.
It is sometimes a non starter…..selling/buying with both sides trying to truely understand what is being sold and bought……this trend is foun even in some of the best malls and chain stores in US….where I had to explain about a fast drying adhesive to the store staff wo had the product on the shelf but could not identify it as the one I was in search of.
I located on the shelf and even tried briefing the section staff…..of course with a bit of reluctance peeping from within as I was an Indian buying an American product…..but they were sports !!! No twisted brows !
It is lovely to communicate wherever you happen to be and whatever you are buying.
Thanks,
Jay
Youre’ right Jay, business communication isn’t just restricted to boardrooms and top-notch marketing pros in companies…it begins with the customer service folks. They are the true “face” of the company and more often than not they are both uninformed and ill-trained and even lacking in basic communication related grooming. If only all companies realized that and spent more time on training these folks!