This document discusses effective business communication. Some key points include:
1. Effective communication strengthens connections between a company and its stakeholders.
2. To be effective, business communication should be practical, factual, concise, and persuasive by providing useful information, facts rather than vague impressions, and compelling arguments.
3. The medium used to communicate a message becomes part of the message, so the appropriate medium should be selected based on the communication situation.
This document discusses effective business communication. Some key points include:
1. Effective communication strengthens connections between a company and its stakeholders.
2. To be effective, business communication should be practical, factual, concise, and persuasive by providing useful information, facts rather than vague impressions, and compelling arguments.
3. The medium used to communicate a message becomes part of the message, so the appropriate medium should be selected based on the communication situation.
This document discusses effective business communication. Some key points include:
1. Effective communication strengthens connections between a company and its stakeholders.
2. To be effective, business communication should be practical, factual, concise, and persuasive by providing useful information, facts rather than vague impressions, and compelling arguments.
3. The medium used to communicate a message becomes part of the message, so the appropriate medium should be selected based on the communication situation.
Learning Alley Give Facts Rather Than Vague Impressions Improving your communication skills Use concreates language, maybe the single most important specific details, and step you can take in your career. information that is clear, The changing nature of employment convincing, accurate, and is putting new pressure on ethical. When an opinion is communication skills, too. called for, present If you launch a company or move compelling evidence to into an executive role in an existing support your conclusion. organization, you can expect Present Information in a Concise, communication to consume the Efficient Manner majority of your time. Concise messages show Employers sometimes express respect for people’s time, frustration at the poor and they increase the communication skills of employees- chances of a positive particularly recent college graduates response. who haven’t learned yet how to Clarify expectations and adapt their communication styles to responsibilities a professional environment. Craft messages to generate a What Makes Business Communication specific response from a Effective? specific audience. When appropriate, clearly state Effective communication Strengthens what you expect from the connections between a company audience members or what and all of its stakeholders, those you can do for them. groups affected in some way by the Offer Compelling, Persuasive company’s actions: customers, arguments and Recommendations employees, shareholders, suppliers, Show your readers precisely neighbors, the community, the how they will benefit by nation and the world as a whole. responding the way you To make your communication efforts want them to respond to as effective as possible, focus on your message. making them practical, factual, concise, persuasive (Thill & Bovee, The Dynamic Nature of Communication 2015): Two or more people send and Provide Practical Information receive simultaneously. At the same Give recipients useful time, you are receiving one message, information, whether it’s to you may be sending another. help them perform a desired For example, the look on your face as action and understand a new you are receiving a message may be company policy. sending a new message to the sender that you either understand, agree PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION Lesson 5 – Business Communication with, or are baffled by the message being sent. And the feedback thus given may prompt the sender to modify his or her intended message. According to Marshall McLuhan “The medium you use to express your message not only identifies the form of the message but also becomes a part of the message.”
How do you determine which medium will
be the most effective for your message?
And exactly how does the medium affect
the message you send?
Consider this communication situation
Assume that your travel Itinerary for
two weeks from just now just changed, and you find that you will have to stay another week in your Davao office. You decide to use one evening to dine and wine with a loyal customer in nearby Southwoods subdivision. Which medium should you use to invite her and her spouse to dinner?