2. Overview
What is effective communication?
Why is it necessary?
What are some tools that promote effective
communication?
Conclusion
3. How Effective Communication Can Help
FBLA
Meetings
remind members of date/time
keep meetings efficient
Projects
allows for collaboration
reminds members of delegated tasks
Competitions
ease of preparation
5. Create, Share and Manage files anywhere!
no more flash drives, emailing attachments!
saves updates automatically to the cloud
Collaborate!
officers create agendas for meetings
committee members add comments, ideas, etc
advisors proofread and modify
7. Place FBLA meetings, fundraisers, conferences, etc. on Google Calendar and share
with members!
● can set up reminder notifications for each event
● updates/changes are immediate
Google Calendar
8. Getting Started...
1.Become “follow worthy,” have pre-planned topics to tweet about each week
(goal: 5 tweets/week) Examples: tweet from committee mtgs, charity events,
community service projects, “week ahead”, rt NYS/National FBLA tweets
2.Designate a “tweeter” for your chapter
3.Learn Twitter-ese
4.Draft your first 20-30 tweets in a text editor, is less than 140 characters,
concise, and powerful
5.Create your account and Stay Active!!
Twitter Follow us @district_5_FBLA
We would like to talk to you today about effective communication and the ways it can help you and your local chapter and you in your everyday life.
What is effective communication? Effective communication is defined as verbal speech or other methods of relaying information that get a point across. There are many ways of effectively communicating and many ways it can help you. When you plan a meeting, don’t you want everyone to show up at the right time and prepared? Well then you need to effectively communicate. Thats where social media helps a great deal
3 - How Effective Communication Can Help
helps FBLA members and officers be in sync and stay in touch with things like meetings, projects, and competitions
it helps insure there are productive meetings and tasks are getting done, otherwise its just a waste of time
if there is not effective communication then your not going to go far in your tasks and the things you need to do
we use these tools to all stay on the same page, whether its just your chapter or the whole district
4 - Tools
so you might be asking what these tools are - some may be facebook, instagram, twitter, and other social media
how many of you here check your school email or emails from your teachers on a daily basis? - not a lot
how many of you here check your social media on a daily basis? - most of you
thats why posting and communicating through sources everyone already uses is so effective, why not take advantage of it, its right at your finger tips
Google Drive is a cloud-storage service which allows you to store our files and access them from any computer or device with an Internet connection (similar to Microsoft 365 and one drive)
Google drive is a great way to share documents, presentations and ideas. Its very accessible for students to use and collaborate on project. Students can work on a document together at the same time. Teachers can also view what stdents have worked on and see the progress of projects. Google drive can be used off of any computer with internet!
8 - Twitter
Twitter is a social media website and application where a person can send out quick messages up to 140 characters.
once you’ve started your fbla twitter account draft some ideas and get used to only being able to use 140 characters but you can have pictures as well, it can be tricky sometimes thats why you just practice trying to get your point across. the person that will maintain this account will most likely be a reporter or volunteer.
remember that you are not only representing your chapter with this account but also your school so if there is anything negative block the person, do not engage.
some ideas you can post are reminders for meetings, minutes, any updates, business dress ideas. appriate and recogize members for any work or help theyve done.
once youve started your account, stay active (have a goal of how many tweets a week) but with that said our chapter is just getting our twitter account started so we dont have much on there
9 - Connect
This is the FBLA National twitter page run by the National officers. During NLC the officers used the twitter page to send out the results of preliminary rounds. The tweets contained locations, times and which teams needed to report. Our state officer team also used their twitter page for the same reasons at SLC. Our local chapter at Lake George also uses a twitter to send out information to our members.
10 - Instagram
share pictures of meetings, community service projects, competitions, and anything else your fbla chapter is involved in
similar to Twitter. If you choose to use FB, make sure someone is in charge of updating it on a regular basis (a couple times a week) with valuable information. Its a fast way to send messages and pictures to groups of people. Although we don’t have facebook it is an easy tool many are familiar and you could use to push out information. Just remember as with other social media sites, it is important to push out information on a regular basis because there’s nothing more annoying than looking for information on a page and finding absolutely nothing. I suggest delegating a person to specifically deal with your FBLA facebook page, push out information, and have weekly reminders.
Skype can hold up to the maximum of 25 people for non-video groups. Skype allows up to 10 people for a videochat.
Skype allows us to communicate with members no matter where they are if there’s wifi.
Remind101 is the way we keep chapter members reminded of upcoming meetings, events, and deadlines. Remind101 works by sending text messages to numbers that have registered to be sent these reminders. The person in charge of the Remind 101 account, whcih could be the [resident or advisors of your chapter, can send out reminders nd specific messages to anyone registered.
