From the course: Mistakes to Avoid When Building Company Culture
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Communicating ineffectively
From the course: Mistakes to Avoid When Building Company Culture
Communicating ineffectively
What if you could eliminate confusion and elevate team morale? With just a few communication tweaks, you can create a culture of transparency that builds a collaborative, trusting team. Unclear and inconsistent communication strategies lead to misunderstandings, a lack of transparency, and create an overall negative work environment. Here's how to avoid it. Start by setting up agreements. In what areas could your team benefit from clear agreements to minimize misunderstandings and improve productivity? Whether you set them or not, you're operating with your team based on agreements. If you haven't actively set them, these agreements are assumed, leading to a lot of potential gray areas, opportunities for confusion and misunderstandings. If you set agreements around the work you do and how you do it, it allows your team to know what's expected of them in areas like email response times or virtual meeting etiquette. Next, practice regular feedback. Giving specific and actionable…