8 effective steps to handle sustained communication gaps

Communication gap is a human glitch which just temporarily locks you out or changes your path but, has long term repurccusions on others and self too. 

Our daily lifestyles do not have the space for sustained focus and perseverance any longer. We jump at conclusions and make quikfix decisions to get going with our personal, professional or joint goals. This is the reason we do not mark our feelings and work on the emotions getting expressed. At times these unaddressed communication gets converted into stress points leading to chaos in relationships and further giving way to mental health issues. 

What are the ways to handle some sustained communication gaps?

Here is an effective flow:

1. Self- Awareness:

    Make yourself clear on your thoughts. What are the issues, pain points, confusion, the circumstances in which the gap got widened and more. 

2. Empathy:

    Understand if you know the perspective of the person with whom you need to discuss things. Give a thought or two to their thought process.

    Get the different angles which might crop up during your conversation with them. 

3. Conflict Resolution:

    Accept that there might be or not a concensus or reconciliation. Let's be practical. The gap got created at both your ends.

    This is an attempt to clarify gaps from both ends and not an end result of something which has been built overtime. 

4. Attitude:

    Take the initiative to call and meet. You are responsible for your need to make things more transparent. No ego show will solve anything. 

5. First Come First Serve:

    It's okay to start talking first and get your thoughts rolled out. No diplomacy will help because that will show and your attempt is going to fall flat.

6. Long Term Plan:

    Give time for the person to open up even if it doesn't happen at this meet. Keep meeting casually but, always try in a smudged way to bring up the topic.

7. Care to share in Relationships:

    It's always good to take help from common friends or acquaintances. Sometimes a third party interference might reignite the spark.

8. Time is a healer:

    You will have to give ample time and keep trying to build the relationship. The gaps may take a while and even if they close, it takes time to forgive or forget or

    start afresh altogether. 

Gaps exist so that we jump and crossover, not to be created in communication. 

Happy Communicating !!!!  

The Role of Educators and Parents in Building a Smart Economy

The Circle has been an answer to many a questions. What goes around, comes around. And that's the way the economy needs to get rebuilt.

The requirement is to build an ever-flowing economy together and instill that idea or seed in our schools, children and our youth.

As educators and parents, use these 3 steps to build this smart economy:

1. Create

2. Cascade

3. Circulate 

Now, start working around these 5 economic challenges keeping the above 3 steps in regard:

1. Creative thinking and designing business with the simplicity of an restorative mindset.

2. Rebuild capital circles through constant equally dispersed cash flows.

3. Healthy natural living & ownership of our ecology.

4. Socio-emotional learning comes with the super power combination of IQ and EQ in driving our relationships across our life line.

5. Regenerative and Recyclable manufacturing systems & components.  

We need to leave globalization to where it has reached and move ahead towards the next level of the economy, the circular economy - ever encompassing.

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Pure Randomness is the Spice of Life

The subjective nature of chaos makes it grow beyond its tag of “so typical” to much deeper & sometimes bitter experiences. Are we in such eventualities, allowing ourselves to surrender to the flow or rather play it random? Our workplaces are ought to be collaborative grounds & not pitches of rivalry. Tackling bullying with some spice does the trick!

Enabling Re-Thinking

Quick decisions coupled with limited time, calls for some unknown glitches and crisis. However, using them as plug-in mechanisms to create a pool of constant or variable change components goes a long way in shaping our business. Change is constant, so why not explore the unknown territories of your mind to beat the odds?

The Art of Knowledge Sharing

The world seems to have more of people who blow out the flame torch after the run. We live in times of the triumphed, the time of hustled pity, sassy achievements right here, right now, with no past & no future. The clasp is how can anything be the end without a start? How can everyone close the door without opening a window? Isn’t it the universe which conspires to make the decision happen?

The Internal Communicators

The Democratized Internal Communications Platform - A Framework

Today, the corporate communication segment of an organization has a
wider role to play rather than mere PR & media handling, content management, collateral delivery or event management department. There are new frontiers to be discovered, fought and addressed as this segment re-orients itself
to the changes in market and digital space. 

Further, the internal communications function has gained a lot of momentum with

shifting times. From following traditional communication channels to a transparent multiple media enriched scenario, the internal communications platform has been gaining a lot of democracy with the coming of citizen journalists, employee bloggers and more.

The initiative to start up a current corporate communication segment thereby, requires strategizing of certain emerging trends and practices. And this is the way

it grows -

Re-orienting talent management and brand positioning

Re-thinking brand activation and talent pool along with internal communication platform has become the crux of the corporate agenda. The communication flowing within the cross-functional segments of an organization needs to be tapped into a think-tank corpus of best practices. The aim should be to collect opinions from subject matter expert, media analysts, consumers, influencers, buyers & sellers, financial experts and from our own employees. The idea being to refine the efficient knowledge coming in , defining it according to the specific requirement and then sharing it with the stakeholders. Build a strutured talent pool and reap the harvest. The recreation of the communication channels with the evolution of social media applications, online reputation management and digital tools has democratized the internal communications platforms. What we are facing right now is an autonomy corresponding between the employees and leadership. This brings an end to the tradional channels of employee PR and corporate communication where information was pushed and pulled to and fro.

The challenge is to build a collaborative workspace.The employee's perception about their workspace experience, their roles and responsibilities and overall standing in the organization structure matters significantly. An highly engaged workforce becomes the need of any organization with continous high yields, ROIs and productivity. The engagement of employees within their organzations in consistency with the internal communications platform is the mantra here. The emotions are at play here, that that is what does the trick. Sculpting the belongingness feature in the employees leads to re-thinking of the brand aspect. The satisfaction levels of the engaged employees then rolls out across the cross-functional channels towards the different stakeholders who inturn re-activate the brand of the company directly or indirectly. Thereby, the whole organization become the base of brand activation and this gives it an unique cultural identity.
           

Mapping employee engagement

Defining employee roles, engaging them at work and extending relationships beyond workspace is like embarking on a journey. The terrains you cover while mapping it helps you in developing an efficient employee engagement charter for practical application. The social ambience at workspace does influence the employer persona. Engaging employees in a 2-way conversation, creating shared workspaces enables developing a sense of ownership at workspace. A strategic visual approach to internal communication should be the focus here. Creating online employee connection centres using platforms like intranet, communicators, messaging tools helps tap on the creative side of the employees.  Placing engaging mechanisms with outlet options at workspace enables employees to express themselves and open up. This also pops up hidden talents and redundant profiles for taking further action. Organizations also set up innovations lab and idea generation systems and promote them by creating rewards and recognition programs. Defining the corporate culture simplifies the rigidity of relationships at work and helps in community building initiatives. Working out CSR programs to get aligned to the industry you are in, becomes imperative these days. Highlighting CSR initiatives intelligently as part of the online reputation management plan reaps unquestionable benefits. Further, employee engagement activities may also include voluteership by being part of the talent management team, mentorship or transfer programes, social service etc. Fun on the floor, weekend outings, food festivals, hobby ideas, employee oriented health campaigns are other prevalent engagement tactics. The challenge is to keep the spirit of the employees going making engagement as interactive and experimental as possible.

Employee communication methodology

The need of the hours is to monitor, analyze, influence and then focus on what is being said, what affects your brand, making the influencial interactions to eliminate negativities and then concentrate on the results for re-use. There is no end to the varied tactic tools to be put in use to materialize this MAIF methodology mentioned above. The social media innovates itself from time to time to offer a boutique of tools including platforms for employee conversations, community management house, interactive messaging boards and discussion forums, webinars, desktop alerts and newsfeeds, internal newsletter and blogger sections, online quiz and pop-up surveys, creativity lab, productivity tools like 'to do list', 'calender', 'organizer', 'notifications', 'Status updates' and more. The need is to make communication as accessable and transparent as possible and also plug-in monitoring agents to curb confidential disturbances.

Concluding, a corporate communication segment which gives autonomy and transparency to its work and that of the organization will accomplish its actual identity.