Business and Organizational Communication Blog

Who? Organizations and managers should all know about meaning full work and identify the broken loops.  What? Pinpointing problems in areas such as frequent misunderstandings, information blocks, information lacks, information duplication, misrepresentation.  Where? This can be used everywhere within and outside of an organization.  When? It should be used daily, in order to identify a problem to solve it before it’s too big.  How?  Most effective way to fix a broken loop, allows people to stay within their current loop. Asking questions, storytelling can also be useful. Why? To fix the problems that are preventing the organization from being successful and peaceful. 

Maslow's hierarchy of needs come into action when it comes to branding. It’s the theory of motivation that states five categories of human needs dictate an individual’s behavior. Branding is a daily thing, and in order to make the new product appealing to buy, organizations should use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to connect on a personal level with their customers. Starting with the very first needs that are important to humans and then gradually going down the pyramid can help motivate customers to buy the product. Future of branding is personal, people do business with people that they know, trust and like and branding is very crucial when to comes to it. The way an organization brands its products really shows the environment of the brand. Aristotle’s seven causes of human action are also good add on to creating a brand.  Chance, Nature, Compulsion, Habit, Reason, Passion, and Desire. Doing it better should not be a goal when creating a brand, it should be doing it different! Tha...

there are four steps to create a plan during a time of crisis. the first step is thinking of how you would notify your staff/team. second step would be giving information. third step is to give space for questions. and the fourth step is understand what you shouldn't be saying. Some ways staff can be notified of the situation going on can be through a group chat, email, organizer apps and through meetings that require the whole staff to be there. the staff should know exactly what's going on, so give them the information. allow the staff and the customers to being up questions because in a time of crisis, there can be many rumours going around that would be the best to get cleared up. there should be a communications team in place that allows for whether or not the information being shared is meant to be shared. avoid any promises and the spread of confidential information because that can cause problems in the future. staying silent in a time of a crisis is never the right thi...

  communication network refers to how information flows within the organization, information within an organization generally flows through a system rather than being a free flow. there are two types of communications networks formal and Informal. Formal communication network is the one which is created by the management and describes with the help of an organizational chart. Information in formal communication network is passed through official channels such as memos, bulletins, and emails. Informal communication is like a grapevine. It does not flow in a particular direction, and doesn't go through the official channels like bulletin, memos etc. It's based more on friendship, personal career interests.  For my free creation, I choose to do a visual meme about informal communication slapping the organized information away because of the nature of the communication that it uses. 

Conversations can be stressful for many different reasons. In this chapter of the book, we learn how to take the stress out of them. there are three types of conversations that can be stressful and what you can do to make it less awkward for yourself and the other party. there's breaking bad news which can occur if there a need to address an employee's performance, there's sudden confrontation that can happen from a sudden outburst where both parties are in need to save their face, and the last one is personal attack where your goal should be to fight the tactics of the person rather than the person them-self. all of these can be stressful and knowing the person, yourself and the situation will help with the smoothness of the conversation.   The three communication techniques that can come in handy in a situation like one of the above are identifying the problem, thinking ahead and see what could arise and how you will deal with it. the other one is being prepared which con...

In this chapter of the book, we learned about the many different ways you can develop international business behavior. In the study done in Columbia university school of business it shows that successful executives must have multi-environment and multinational experience to become CEOs in the 21 st  century. The ability to compete in the global economy is the single greatest challenge facing business today. Learning the proper etiquette, manners and intercultural communication is all important when it comes to conducting business into another culture. Some might even say that intercultural communication is no longer an option, but a necessity. Important business decisions usually affect citizens of more than one nation. Global business continues to bring people closer together and expand rapidly, however the most important element to successful global business is the appreciation and respect for the regional, country and the cultural differences.  The names of products can als...

  Communicating gender in Workplace can be important to prevent many of these problems, like unequal pay, sexual harassment and abuse, and other types of discriminations that can take place when it comes to gender. Gender at workplace is very important, as sad as it is people do treat others different when it comes to one’s gender. The benefit of communicating gender at work can apply to both females and males. As the years go by, the percentage of women working is getting higher and this is an important factor to note because it shows us that the role of gender being played is being eliminated. This is also important because the number of women working in “men-based jobs” and the number of men working in “female-based job” is also increasing. They are breaking the stereotypes of what gender should work in what field of a job, which is a huge improvement from if we look at it about 10 to 15 years ago maybe even less. big organizations have only men hired and no females an...

In class we had a presentation about pitching a brilliant idea, and we were told to make a small video about a topic that we are passionate to talk about. It took me a long time to upload this video, not because it was hard to make but because it was hard for me to have a video of me seen by my whole class. To me presenting is easier than having a video that everyone can look back at any time they want, but I glad that we got to do something like this because it made me realize that in future I will need this sort of experience if I want to get my own business. I wish I had upload it sooner so that I would have gotten feedback on it. Even though the thought of having a video of me speaking was hard for me to process at first but as soon I uploaded it, my stress kind of went away. 

In the video there was an example given about the Hallowich family, they bought a plot to build their dream house on, but little did they know that there is gas beside their land which a company decided to build their infrastructure on. This caused health problems for the family, as well as disturbance throughout the day with all the noise coming from the factory. when they decide that they had enough and speak up against it on social media, the company wanting to save their business gave them a take it or leave it agreement to which the family said yes, and they took the money and the gas company made them promise to never mention their bad experience with the company or ever mention the health issues that were caused from the gas. This is one of the many things big industries like such do that the government pays no attention to. Government is supposed to be looking out for common goods, environment, and the health of their people, they are supposed to be the guardians of it, but the...

the video explains how saying no to a meeting or finding out what the meeting is about can help you like meetings more and feel more interested in attending one or say no to one in order for you to not waste your time on a meeting that brings no benefit to you in any way. My free creation is a visual creation that explains how it’s okay to say no to a meeting that you think won’t be in any way important to you. If saying no to a meeting seems rude, you could email the person in charge of the meeting and discuss with them what the meeting they are holding is about or if you can be excused from the meeting. This will be beneficial in the future not only for you to be saved from bad meetings but also help the person holding the meeting change the way they approach a new topic, and they could realize and that a meeting for certain things is not always necessary and instead send out an email with the information to the people that its relevant to.