10 Tips To Improve Internal Communication at Your Company
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic led to socially distanced conversations, the methods of communication in many businesses, including horticulture operations, have been evolving from personal to electronic.
This past year has upended the office structure as we know it and has brought on many unique challenges that, if not overcome, can negatively contribute to the long-term success of a company.
Entrepreneurs leading fast-growing companies with expanding workforces need to ensure that they adjust to this new reality and implement new strategies to deal with the communication challenges posed by an evolving workforce.
Internal communication is the heartbeat of a company and is vitally important if an organization is to function effectively. In our new socially-distanced world, employees should feel that they can easily communicate with their team members and leadership.
From Entrepreneur.com, here are 10 things you can do to improve internal communication:
- Schedule bi-weekly 30-minute calls with leadership to stay on top of priorities and becoming proactive when addressing the concerns and questions of employees, partners, and customers.
- Utilize instant messaging and picking up the phone for timely tasks to encourage greater accessibility than email.
- Implement a standard corporate communication tool to strengthen connections, create dialogue, and improve information sharing across all departments.
- Schedule informal corporate business updates and Q&As.
- Implement a project management tool to provide greater visibility into everyone’s work priorities and progress.
- Implement a company newsletter to keep everyone updated on progress and to recognize the achievements of team members.
- Hold a corporate all-hands meeting going over the strategy for each quarter, making people excited and proud to be working for the company.
- Work on unifying employees in understanding broader corporate goals and how each one of them directly contributes to them.
- Empower employees to engage more by leading by example.
- Work towards fostering cross-department collaboration through companywide and cross-department projects.
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