IT’S NOT HOW YOU MANAGE YOUR PEOPLE; IT’S HOW YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THEM | GOALIFY

Huyen Pham

Communication and interaction are two of the most important factors that are vital to the success of one organization. Acknowledging of this issue, many leaders get the wrong idea between manage their people and communicate with them though. In fact, once you communicate well with your staff, every task goes completely smoother.

Then what is effective communication? Let’s take a look at some rules of interaction between leaders and their staff in workplace. Besides, Goalify will recommend you some solutions to fix the mess in communication within an organization and make it clearer and simpler for all of us.

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Ensure that all of your messages to be listened carefully and directly. Nowadays, there are thousand ways to transfer and update the information between a manager and an employee such as: email, meeting, Viber, etc. but all of the above only allow you to focus on just one particular person or team. With Goalify, if you need to send out an announcement or a decision, everyone who needs to receive the message will be able to access it.

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All the leaders are required to understand that their staff have right to raise their questions and bring out their feedbacks. Thanks to listening to employees, we can easily understand their opinions and requests, and this becomes an advantages when we can effortlessly align their goals and key results to the objectives and ambitions of the whole organization.

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Another task that a manager or a leader need to take care of is giving their attention when a staff successfully finishes his or her work. This recognition does not raise only one’s productivity, confidence but other members’ work rate too. More importantly, employees will acknowledge that their contribution is not a normal task but it is valuable to every part of the company.

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One important factor affects the communication between a manager and his staff is the transparency. This factor will allow departments/teams to cross-check the work, avoid overlapping tasks, figure out which assignment is done and which is pending and why it is pending.

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Developing a strong organization culture through communication is one of the most critical elements that helps company structure be stable and communication and interaction also develop a ‘we’ mindset between each individual in the company.

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A critical fact when communicating which other members within you company is hiding your bad mood or negative emotion. And if you are not so confident when talking to your staff or your colleague, an internal communication app like Skype, Hangouts or Goalify is all that you need.

Thanks to OKR, Employee Engagement and Culture Engagement methodology that many startup, SME or even worldwide company managers and leaders have applied, the communication inside the organization is getting easier and clearer, these methods also help to avoid a breakdown in communication of the organization.