Every company has their own approach to addressing communication within their staff. The real question lies with — what internal communication tools are best to use and for what type of communication? I recently discovered Sandra Thornton’s blog on, Internal Communication Tools. In my review of her tips, I was able to identify 5 different tools that will help get your company establish the right path.
The first of five internal communication tools we have for you today is essential for a company's communication is email. Everyday and everywhere we are constantly checking email, and the same goes for the people working within your company. Email can be used for many different forms of communication, but what should you really be using work email for?
Emailing is an effective way to get our point across. It is equally compelling to use email as a daily reminder in the workplace. Have last minute meeting changes? Shoot out an email. Your employees will know instantly that there are some last minute adjustments. Email is so ingrained into our every day at the workplace that you can be confident your message reached everyone within minutes. And of course our shameless plug, with Ving you can track who has viewed your message and interacted with each part of your Ving message.
Along with email, another internal communication tool that is useful would be to hold small group meetings. Getting together is always beneficial when working on team building, collaborative projects, and company updates. When the number of attendees increases, often productivity decreases so keep your group meetings manageable. Small group meetings are not the only way to get updates and news across to your team, try a company bulletin board!
Why have a bulletin board when we have our computers, right? Wrong, bulletin boards are a good tool for reminders about upcoming events. When discussing an upcoming event during a meeting, the details may easily be forgotten! When there is a board that is visible — and in a central location, team members are more likely to remember exactly the who, what, where, when, and why's of your next event or meeting. A bulletin board is also a nice way to recognize company successes and promotions.
Globally and with more frequency, social media is yet another one of the great internal communication tools we offer today, especially when looking into your company interactions. Social media is a wonderful tool to get your company’s name out there and to get people to start talking about it. When the media world sees you — you see the them! Social media is a great tool for beginning a conversation and it's a great way to reach out on a personal level to your company’s participants.
The final internal communication tools that would benefit a company’s communication would be the good old fashion, face to face communication. With all our new technology we can often fall into the screen and never come out for human interaction. Face to face is a way that all communication can be heard and can be interpreted — the correct way. Face to face communication will never be passed up. It is the best way to connect you to your employees, and create loyal customers.
With these five internal communication tools you and your company will have a better and more effective way of communicating. By having different forms of tools through your organization, you will be able to keep up with conversations, highlight reminders, as well as promote your company. Who’s tweeting about those last minute meetings now? Tweet us ( @vingapp ) to let us know how these internal communication tools have helped you and your company succeed.
Todays blog was written by Allyson Allwine.