Managerial Communication: What and How Managers Should Communicate To Employees

Communication strategy is a coherence linkage never to be overlooked. Communication needs to be comprehensively planned and spontaneous, as well as top-down and bottom-up.

Communication processes, including → the target audience, the message, the means of communication, the frequency, the rationale, and the selection of communicators, must be tailored to each purpose and constituency.

→ Understand EGA of Your Audience

Top organizations have a communication process that communicates the knowledge and information that people need in a way that they understand and can apply to their job.

→ Communication is neither a separate nor a periodic task. Use every means available to let everyone working with you know your plans and your reasons. A manager should provide → team members with the information they require to do a good job, communicating with them frequently, and giving them clear guidelines on the results that are expected.

Communication is a two-way relationship, Establish an enabling environment so others could give you the information you need. Use → feedback to make certain that communication has become understanding and consensus. Practice management by wandering around (MBWA).

Communicate with reports and benchmarks that track business progress and anticipate issues and opportunities, for example:

the annual budget
monthly measurements and benchmarks requiring action
key weekly measurements on which action can be taken.

Focused meetings can also foster clear effective communication, and spark action.

→ Lessons from Jack Welch: 3Ss of Winning in Business

Simplicity: Simplicity is indispensable to a business leader's most important function: creating and projecting a clear vision. Simple messages travel faster... More

Wall-Mart

In his → 10 Rules for Building a Business Success, Sam Walton, the Founder of Wall-Mart writes: "Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they'll understand. The more they understand, the more they'll care. Once they care, there's no stopping them... More

Monsanto

Monsanto was was undergoing a transformation to become a new company.

→ Why Change Fails: 8 Common Errors

One of the areas of focus during this transition period was on communicating and building the desired → corporate culture and motivated behaviors through traditional means like videos and newsletters as well as day-to-day conversations... More

Active Listening

Active listening is a habit that you can and should develop. Being a great listener benefits managers by reducing misunderstandings, improving information accuracy, and ensuring that they have complete information from which to work. Employees, peers, and even your manager will open up more when they feel listened to... More

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Management

Why Project Communication Is So Important

Good project communication is a key prerequisite of getting the right things done in the right way.

While cutting back on project communication can add short-term advantage and time saving, it will create long-term problems.

Constant, effective communication among all project stakeholders ranks high among the factors leading to the success of a project. It is a key prerequisite of getting the right things done in the right way. As knowledge is power, sharing knowledge empowering every project stakeholder... More

Project Leader

New Tasks

Self-Assessment

Project Communication

Project Status Reports

Employee Feedback

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