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Tag: workplace communication
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How To Manage Digital Workplace Tool Overload
In today's workplace there are countless digital tools to communicate and collaborate. In fact, the proliferation of these tools has caused many to feel the pain of digital workplace tool overload. Here's what you can do about it.
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Are Your Workplace Presentations Boring? Here's the Cure
With scientists now clocking our attention spans as shorter than a goldfish, presenters in corporations need all the help they can get to keep their stakeholders engaged. So I looked to one place that can hold our attention, even keep us riveted, for hours: the movies.
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Slack Enterprise Edition Aims for Microsoft, Other Big Collaboration Competitors
Slack took aim at large businesses — and some of its biggest competitors — with today's unveiling of a new enterprise edition. At a live event in its hometown of San Francisco, representatives from the team collaboration tool demonstrated Slack Enterprise Grid, which allows global teams of up to 500,000
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Pick Workplace Communication Tools That Make Employees' Lives Easier
New and emerging communication channels continue to jockey for digital workplace supremacy. Slack remains the current trendy choice, but Microsoft Teams is pushing into its territory. Meanwhile old, busted — yet reliable — email keeps running thanks to all of the new and improved engines in the cloud.
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4 Ways To Improve Workforce Adoption of Collaboration Apps
Businesses are increasingly embracing enterprise messaging and team collaboration applications – with little sign of slowing down. A December 2016 report by G2 Crowd found more than half of companies have implemented team collaboration solutions, and 31 percent plan to adopt one in the next two years.
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Managing Digital Workplace Communication: So Many Tools, So Much Confusion
It seems fashionable these days to blame email for our communication woes. After all, critics say it’s a time suck, makes us less productive, costs companies money and even makes us sick. While all of this may very well be true, pointing the finger at any one technology won’t
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5 Qualities That Boost Your Collaboration Tool's Agility
The collaboration space had a busy year last year, with new entrants, vertical solutions and plenty of hype surrounding the future of work. The combination of technology innovations and an increase in virtual workforces has increased the creativity and focus surrounding workplace communications.
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How Machines Can Make You More Human & Improve Workplace Communication
Empathy is important — and few people would argue the point. Decades of research have shown empathic communicators are more likely to have satisfying interactions and achieve their interactional goals, such as selling their products, delivering a better service experience or helping their patients.
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How IT Managers Can Learn to Talk to the C-Suite
IT managers and C-suite executives could, for all they know, be speaking different languages when they try to communicate with each other. While one side talks about servers, mainframes and workloads, the other only wants to hear about the business case behind every investment decision.
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Employees Long for Better Workplace Communication [Infographic]
Many enterprises are embracing digital transformation. But all that change will fall flat unless organizations improve their basic communication skills. That's the conclusion of a survey released today, which found nearly half of the 250 communications professionals who responded think their companies should rethink their digital workplace communications program.
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What Game of Thrones Teaches You About Work
How hot would it be to have your own dragons, especially if you could take those fire-breathing beasts to work? Who would dare question your judgment, your work ethic or your annoying inclination to notice gaps in strategic plans — while everyone else nodded "yes" — with massive flying reptiles
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4 Trends in Workplace Communication [Infographic]
Flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and more time off will motivate employees to work harder in 2015. But there’s another motivator on this list you might not expect: better communication tools.
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