Group 1 WikiPost

2. Tracy Morales

3. Nicholas Doonan

4. Edgar AmaroENGLISH 218 FALL 2010

5. MAKING IT WORK Establish the need for each Communication Develop the skills and awareness Make it understandable Make sure it is TWO-WAY Communicate often Try different methods and styles Monitor the effectiveness Maintain the effort 8 Principles

6. Establish the need for each Communication Principle 1 Reason for the Communication What you want to communicate through What you want to gain from this communication

7. Develop the skills and awareness Make sure you are capable of presenting Take time to get ready before communicating Put in effort into your communication Be aware of who you are communicating to Practice! Principle 2

8. Make it Understandable Make sure information is relevant to reader Make sure the type of communication being used is clear to reader A lot of times communication fails because communicator is not clear to reader Know your Reader! Principle 3

9. Make sure it is TWO-WAY DON’T just give the information Make sure the reader has understood the information Make sure the reader has received the information Bulletins are good, BUT only if the readers are aware of them and check them periodically Principle 4

10. Communicate Often Make meetings Attend meetings Make sure readers have understood messages Make sure readers have received messages Develop a trust with the reader Make sure it is always TWO-WAY communication Principle 5

12. Big group meeting

13. Small group meeting

14. Writing

15. E-mail

16. Pictures and diagramsPrinciple 6

17. Monitor the Effectiveness Have a survey to make sure what your readers like See yourself if the reader received the information See if the reader understood the information Do this by seeing if the reader took action after the information was given Principle 7

18. Maintain the Effort Maintain the strategy you used effective Keep making sure your reader is receiving the information Keep making sure your reader is understanding the information Make sure the reader is taking action Keep the TWO-WAY communication in place Principle 8

19. REFERENCES Osborne, S. (n.d.) Business Performance. Organization Communication. Retrieved from http://www.businessperform.com/articles/workplace-communication/organization_communication.html Reference Page