Workplace Communication Assessment
Lynekka Clark
Jack Welch Management Institute
Dr. Verona Kennedy
JWMI:505
October 26,2014
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Introduction
There are many instances in the business world that mandates the need and use of effective communication. One of the most significant situations that call for effective communication is the implementation of organizational change. The business situation is that an organization is downsizing and the situation calls for that it has to lay off its employees. So, the effective communication revolves around the fact that the employees are communicated to be laid off in such a manner that their feelings with the workplace and HR …show more content…
E-mail, which was supposedly used by organisations on the basis of its efficiency, is becoming ineffective due to the lack of emailing policy which is imperative to be formed to uphold message quality in addition to curbing abuse. It is imperative to ensure that texting only communication is discreet and courteous to ensure against the transference of privileged information.
In my workplace, I used have a passive interpersonal style, which really made the situation hard for me to face. When it used to come to decision making I always used to look at others for their opinions and suggestion, even at time I never used to feel confident of the decisions taken by me which further demotivated me and I started to feel like ‘square peg in a round hole’. I joined at the junior level, so being a new employee I used to think of other senior employees as people of
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far great knowledge and experience as compared to me, which at the very initial stage made …show more content…
Paraphrasing that: "80% of getting is asking". When you ask for what you want, you are living life full out, you are not withholding, you are not pretending. You are experiencing the joy of full and authentic self-expression. Full selfexpression, expressing who you truly are and what you truly think leads to a more satisfying life.
Mutual understanding leads to better connection with people. Better connection with people fulfills our human need for belonging and love. Fulfilling one of our most important needs
(belonging) leads to a more satisfying life. If you can avoid misunderstandings, you will be able to know what others (your boss, your clients, or other people) are truly asking you or telling you.
If you can understand what others are saying, you will not come to the wrong conclusions or take the wrong actions about what you hear. You will make fewer unnecessary mistakes. Making fewer unnecessary mistakes, you will be more at peace, worry less about the consequences of your words and actions. By worrying less about your words and actions, you will have more peace of mind, both at work and away from work. Having more peace of mind, you will lead