Communication, cours en anglais

Good communication is indispensable to any company’s success. Indeed, a company, which has an excellent communication strategy, can often avoid unnecessary confusion and misinformation. Whereas, a company where there is poor communication is going to face a decrease of its productivity and its growth especially if lower-level employees fell neglected by upper management. Unfortunately, good communication skills don’t come naturally to everyone. This is why it’s important for a company to train its employees to communicate in an effective way and give them a few important guidelines to work together in the best conditions. Employees must be able to share their thoughts and concerns with theirs superiors. Sometimes, the manager’s personality can prevent them from communicating openly. Indeed, effective organizational communication requires a climate of trust and a culture that supports effective communication. In order to enable the employees to express themselves, the company can for example organize regular one on one meetings. A few minutes spent talking in the present will save valuable time later by avoiding misunderstandings in advance. Moreover, managers must keep their employees well informed of their actions and business plans by using the internal company website. They also need to encourage feedback, which is critical to a good communication. There are many other barriers to effective communication. Physical barriers are often due to the environment: noise or poor lighting can easily affect people’s concentration and morale. The use of complex, technical words or abbreviations can be an obstacle to communication especially for a trainee like my self. I think that the managers must try to stick to the point and simplify their vocabulary as much as possible so that the majority can understand them. Language barrier is another important factor in business communication. If there is no common language, then communication is not worthwhile. This is the reason why more and more companies tend to impose English to their employees. Effective communication must not be taken for granted. It requires attention and doesn’t just happen, but develops as the result of a collective effort.

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