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Communicating effectively

Communicating effectively

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Communicating effectively

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- Good bosses and good leaders are good communicators, they have to be good communicators. And communication isn't something that's completely built-in, it's something that you can work on and make an effort towards. And it's worth using every method of communication that you can. So as well as emailing people, have a weekly meeting with your team, definitely. Have a once a year talk to the whole workforce on, this is what's happened this year, this is what we plan for next year. And above all, do some management by walking about. I would recommend every day, spend between half an hour and a whole hour just walking around, just chatting to people, seeing how they are. And this is a two-way process. So it's partly you telling them what you're working on, interesting events that are coming up, that kind of thing. But it's mainly you asking them how they feel, do they know what's going on, are they happy, are there any problems? Just taking the temperature, management walking about very,…

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