Informal Communication in the Workplace

Whatever your work field, communication is the most important part that you have to give attention to increase your career personal growth. Without good and effective communication, that is impossible to achieve your goal that you want to. Communication is a very important key to good leadership. Without this you can not be a good leader. The knowledge and technical expertise you have must be clearly communicated to other people through a formal or informal communication in the workplace.

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Here are some tips that you can do to have an effective informal communication in the workplace:

• When you meet new person in the workplace, try to mention his or her name in the conversation. If you forget, don’t hesitate to ask to that person.
• Be aware that people have valuable time. Say what you need to say directly, don’t say needlessly long sentences. In this way your interlocutor is not bored and understood what you mean.
• Listening. To applied effective and good informal communication in the workplace, you have to listen carefully people conversation. With good listening skill can show to your interlocutor that you are very appreciated and interested to conversation topic. If you want to learn many things today, you have to do it with listening.
• Give opportunity to your interlocutor to suggest his or her opinion. Because not everyone interested about your topic discussion. Identify your interlocutor body language, if they look is bored, ask him or her questions and involve him or her in conversation. Make them feel comfort and enjoy the conversation.
• Don’t forget to give attention to your natural body language, like eye contact, voice intonation, body movement, and expression. Body language is the same thing with oral language. Body language is natural part of communication and conversation. When person talk to you, always look at his or her eyes. That mean, you pay attention to him or her. Thus, adjust your body language with your topic discussion, for example don’t smile when your interlocutor talk seriously to you.
• Create transparency atmosphere to make good relationship with other people in the workplace.

You can open your line of communication and create an effective informal communication in the workplace. Discuss issues or topics with your mate when the mood is right. Try to avoid arguing. Give attention to your mate and allow him or her to speak their mind. If you leave the doors to communication open and transparent, it will help you and your mate grow and develop.