Communication

While completing the offering a solution assignment and responding to everyone's post it occurred to me that communication seems to be the biggest problem in the workplace. Whether it be from managers to employees or from employees to managers, many times a piece of the puzzle is lost through translation. I am well aware, since this has happened to me for many many years, although I am not all too sure of how to solve the problem. I guess the solution is different for every situation. For many of the posts, the solution seemed to be as simple as keeping a daily log book or a profile about a client, but sometimes, the solution is much more difficult.

Because technology is so widely used, reading an email with directions or even just a quick reponse can be taken the wrong way. You can think the person writing the email is mad, angry, disappointed, in a hurry, or many other emotions while the writer feels the exact opposite.

Unfortunately, I feel that in today's word there will always be communication problems in the workplace, but you just have to handle it the best way you know how, or try to find easy solutions. It is something that I'm sure we all have to work on :)