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Interpersonal Communication
How Can Email Communication Affect Your Business? Ed. Chris McClean: Internet Consultant. Pertinent Information: Interpersonal Communication Articles. March 28, 2004. 28 Mar. 2004 http://www.pertinent.com/articles/communication/chrisCom1.asp.
In his interpersonal communication article "How Can Email Communication Affect Your Business?" Chris McClean attempts to help current and potential business owners, business partners, employees and customers to be careful in how they use or abuse email. McClean shares a personal anecdote about how he once almost made a negative assumption about an entire business entity based solely on a response from that organization to an email he had sent to them. Conveniently, the story in the article has a happy ending because both he and the company rectified the situation by sending apologetic emails to each other. However, McClean does point out that there are those individuals who are out there in cyber land that may not use an apology to 'right' a misrepresented or negatively interpreted email situation. Mclean also uses the article to show that business people using email may be limited in how they can interject personal feelings into electronic messages. One solution he proposes is to use "emoticons" to make email messaging more like face-to-face communication. Overall, the interpersonal communication article is an attempt...
Although the internet is a wide open sea of information aimed at no one and everyone, this particular article appears to have a specific audience because it is directed towards those in the business community. "Email is now one of the fastest ways to gain or lose potential customers because of its ability to deliver information fast to an enormous amount of people." (Mclean, Chris) McClean implies that business emails have the potential to be both positive and negative. This entails that anyone writing a business related email or may be replying to a received business related email should take into consideration the potential for harming the overall opinion or image of a company receiving those emails.
The article points out that a company could suffer repercussions when sending out email that may offend. Although McClean is very clear to point out that he is not a potential hacker, he makes reference to those in the cyber world who once offended may retaliate to some perceived insult by hacking or destroying a company's web site. "Be careful, there are many vindictive people who will reply to brashness by breaking into your entire site and demonstrating…
Communication Skills Self-Assessment Interpersonal Communication Speech and language pathologists are considered to be experts in the field of interpersonal communication. Yet these professionals readily agree that although they may be experts in disorders of communication, they "are not experts in 'communication,' particularly that of interpersonal communication" (Montgomery, 2006). A fundamental reason that someone might not be skilled in interpersonal communication is that they have difficulty attending to and processing all of the
Interpersonal Communication Communication skills are a bulwark to effective relationships and successful living. Effective communications are not innate attributes; they are acquired skills that can be honed to achieve not only successful dialogues, but meaningful connections between people. For the purposes of this paper, I have chosen to focus on the topic of communication in interpersonal relationships. I will then explain the principles and misconceptions in effective interpersonal communications, discuss the
Although I have been through many of these encounters in my career, this one was going to be different because I knew that she was going to ask my opinion on how our hurricane evacuation and subsequent command relocation went. Although I prepared myself and practiced my answer, I let my nerves get the best of me and did not even come close to communicating the message that I
As English is my second language, I tend to be more shy with those whom I am in charge of. and, at the same time, they may have low self-esteem too, which makes a hazard for ineffective communication (Lemay, E., & O'Leary, K 2012). When this occurs, people only hear the negative, therefore the sender has take that into consideration when talking to someone who has low self-esteem (Bower,2010). From research,
E-Mail in Business Communication E-mail: History, Relation, and Impact on effective Business Communication Email in Business Communication Electronic Mail Impact of Email to Business Communication Implications of Emails as Business Communication Tools Email is an important form of communication in today's organization that is increasingly seeing a geographical dispersal of the workforce. To communication tool has replaced traditional business letters and memos in preference for email memos. The research carried out a review of literature on
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