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How to communicate effectively when working remotely: 10 proven tips

Have you ever noticed how difficult it can be to communicate with your colleagues remotely? It can be challenging to communicate effectively with remote teams for several reasons, like lack of face-to-face interaction, time zone differences, and difficulties with technology. In fact, 20% of workers say communication is their number one challenge while working from home.

What is Downward Communication? Benefits, Drawbacks and Examples

Did you know that 71% of employees say they’re more productive when they feel connected to their colleagues through communication? This shows the importance of effective communication in the workplace. No doubt, the communication techniques used in a work environment affect employee performance and collaboration efforts. Top-down communication is a common form of communication in the workplace and has both positive and negative impacts on collaboration efforts and employee engagement.

8 strategies to ensure communication security

The rise of modern technologies enabled people to communicate more easily than ever before. We communicate in a variety of channels, like chat, voice and video calls, and emails. However, the new, digital ways to communicate also made communication security and data privacy big concerns for all parties involved.

The 10 best communication tools for enterprise businesses

Running an enterprise is no walk in the park. It could get overwhelming with more workforce, resources, and bigger goals. Streamlining communication and ensuring transparency can help smoothen enterprise businesses' workflow. This is where your choice of enterprise communication tools comes in. Ensuring smooth dialogue in an enterprise might seem like a mammoth task, but it isn’t impossible.

The roles Internal Comms plays that you might not realize

When we “wear a lot of hats” at work, that means we have multiple jobs to do, depending on what’s needed at the moment. In today’s modern workplace, many of us ‘wear a lot of hats’ with pride, showing off our versatility and talent, solving a myriad of challenges, and making it look effortless. But it isn’t really effortless, is it? Quite often, multiple hat-wearers are stretched pretty thin. One often-misunderstood department is internal communications (IC).

6 best chat apps according to developers

Providing efficient chat options to developers can help optimize workflow and increase your business’s return on investment (ROI). Developers must stay aligned with their team when working on a project. Connecting them via a chat platform is the easiest way to do this. With the help of an adequate chat app, you can achieve project-based communication within your teams.

The realist's guide to effective team communication within your agency

Teams work better when they talk to each other and collaborate, but you don’t need us to tell you that. Connecting the dots between effective team communication and high-performance teams or agencies is where things get interesting. Poor team communication isn't just unproductive. It can create stress and waste valuable time — everything top performers avoid. Many teams may think they’ve got effective communication when it may not be that great.

Effective Communication Strategy For A Small Business: A Step-By-Step Guide

To be successful in business, it's important to have a great communication strategy. But what does that give small business projects? This blog post will discuss the best ways to communicate with your customers in 2022. We'll also present practical tips on creating a communication strategy that works for your business. Use these tips to build better relationships with your customers and increase profits!

The five most annoying things in internal communications jobs-and how to overcome them!

If you have seen the movie Office Space (1999), you know all about pointless TPS reports, impossible-to-understand printer instructions, (“PC Load Letter”), and micromanaging superiors. Office Space was an office comedy, so the portrayals were a little extreme. But who can’t relate to the annoyances of working in an office, even if we work remotely?

15 vital internal communications tools for the digital workplace

When you’re living in the middle of a workplace revolution, it can be hard to see the forest for the trees, especially if you’re a Millennial who grew up with technology — literally. Born between 1981 and 1996, Millennials ranged from eight to twenty-three when Facebook was first released on the Harvard campus in 2004. (Yes, Facebook is that young.) After that, more social networks followed: Twitter in 2006, Instagram in 2010, and now TikTok in 2016.