This paper aims at discussing different communication strategies an entrepreneur could use to increase effective communication with his or her employees. Technology is on the rise in today’s world and as the paper will show, by using technological communication, the employer could increase employee productivity. The paper provides some pieces of advice to Mr. Bushley on the communication strategies to use in his chain stores.
As a business consultant at Mr. Bushley’s service, I would make the following recommendations: 1) consider employment of Google calendars 2) consider E-learning for the employees.
I would recommend the use of Google calendars to Mr. Bushley. In most organizations like Mr. Bushley’s chain stores, there is always a delay in work delivery. With every employee having been issued with different duties, when an employee has a lot to produce weekly or monthly, he or she could end up missing to do some duties due to poor scheduling of work. He or she might spend a lot of time on some duties which end up taking up all the time necessary for the rest of the duties.
To curb this remarkably consistent problem, Mr. Bushley should adopt the use of Google calendars (Staff, October 2009). They allow scheduling of all the work in an organization in the way that is desirable and helps to share the calendar with other employees. The calendars allow activation of alerts via email, mobile short messaging services (SMS), or pop-ups. Regardless of where an employee is, so long as he or she is connected with the internet or has activated the mobile SMS alerts, he gets reminded of work due, and this way he/she can plan their time well. Mr. Bushley can include events for his employees to boost their morale in the workplace. This will increase the organization’s productivity.
E-learning is an internet-based learning system where the learners can access centralized data from one central source from different or the same locations. Employees under training save a lot of time with E-learning as compared to on-site training where the requirement is to leave their place of work. With E-learning, the employees can still attend to their duties as they continue to learn. The employees would also appreciate the flexibility of E-learning as they can choose the time that best suits them to study productively and comfortably. E-learning is friendly to the employees. This is because the developers selling the courses offer a wide range of payment options. This is not the case when using printed materials and CD-ROMS (Tesc, June 2011).
E-Learning will save costs that would have otherwise been incurred due to the purchase of learning materials like textbooks. This would have been expensive considering the repetitiveness of the need to train the employees yearly or monthly. E-Learning will be favorable as it provides options for installations on private networks for greater bandwidth and security (Tesc, June 2011). E-learning gives one the option to link with other training systems on the internet for diverse knowledge (Kilby, 1994-2009).
To conclude, it is evident that a lot of advantages come about with the use of technological communication tools between the management and employees. As the paper has shown, just by the use of two technological communication strategies, employee performance could be increased tremendously.
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Tesc. (2011). Managerial Communication Strategies and Applications. Business and Management, 1-3.