Effective Communication Tips

The UpliftEvents website (upliftevents.com.au), shares a number of tips for communicating well with colleagues. Here are three of them:

Speak with discretion and talk face to face

Speaking with discretion prevents any misunderstandings with your colleagues. Face to face communication helps with building trust and openness, and it enables you to sense and understand someone’s viewpoint and feelings. Also talk face to face to resolve disagreements or fix complex problems, and use clear, friendly and polite language…

Build and earn trust

For effective communication to occur, everyone must trust and respect each other. To build trust with your colleagues, it’s important that you act consistently and with integrity. To earn their trust, communicate.

Get personal but don’t be too casual

Get to know your colleagues better by talking about your personal lives during breaks or after work. This is also a good way to build trust. However, it’s important that you don’t get too casual in your conversations, especially in the office, as it might make the other person uncomfortable. Make sure that all communications, including your work emails, phone calls and meetings are professional.”

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