Effective Group Communication

Effective Group Communication (Professional, Family, Personal)

There are levels of communication, and we list seven.  Each level has a 'personality' including pros and cons. Success has aspects of security, formality, timeliness, ease, long-lasting effect.  Each level can be used effectively if you have the proper talent and effort.

For the greatest effectiveness in the most important areas/tasks, you can create outlines and text in a file structure of text or Word-file documents. This way, you can review important communications before, not after, you send them. Keep the short- and long-term objectives in mind.

1. TEXTING    The younger generation and some adventurous oldsters communicate with texting via their smartphones.  Others of us, answer but do not initiate text-messaging. The advantage is quick response, and not needing to ring someone's phone.

2. FACEBOOK   A person can spend a lot of time on Facebook. It has become #1 in social media. With some top professionals it becomes great branding and marketing.  In our home, Lynnette follows family and friends on Facebook, and I am a lurker/browser.  I use LinkedIn instead for connecting, and also Google blogspots of which I have many.    LinkedIn is for professionals and Facebook is for personal interactions--but where do you draw the line?  A personal connection with a CEO can be beneficial to you, the CEO, the customers, the companies, and USA/world.

3. eMail   For personal, professional, and other groups, you can have distribution lists.

4. PHONE   Phoning can work, but be prepared for 'phone-tag'.  Timing is important.

5. PERSONAL VISITS   With five children and 19 grandchildren, Lynnette and I like to visit and have them visit us in Southern California.  We travel from Oregon, to Apple Valley, to Idaho Falls, to American Fork, Utah, BYU/Provo, Utah, and back home.

6. REUNION   Getting away for a few days or a week in a 'retreat' can work for professionals, neighbors, or family clans. These are amazing moments for eternal memories and commitments.

7. PPI   This is an LDS abbreviation for 'personal priesthood interview' and can be bishop-with-womens-president, father to child, or equivalently CEO to employee, one-to-one, privately.  An example in the this is year-end review for each employee: goals/raises are presented.

POSTSCRIPT:  This is just a quick reflection.  What can you add as a COMMENT?