Tag Archives : communication

Languages keep evolving all the time. They are our means of communication and have to grow and adapt according to the changing times and requirements. The developing technology also brings about new terms and usages to be able to communicate effectively. You might remember those MLA books that you bought because of your teacher but never read because [...]

Garmin has always been interested in the principles of innovation, convenience, performance, value and services and it is headquartered in Kansas. What, in 1989, began as a brainstorming session, with some engineers around a table, became a collaborative effort with thousands of colleagues. The object of Garmin is basically simple: create navigation [...]

Located in the brain’s “mirror neurons” is the physiological mechanism for social interaction. Parts of our brains become active when we see something in motion, for example. ‘It seems we are not just observers of the social scene but that we automatically share the experiences and emotions of the people we are observing.’ That [...]

The Internet, the network of networks, has revolutionized both human interaction and communication. Today, it is used to share information or to just be connected and stay social. The Internet ‘has drawn more than a billion people online.’ The Internet was conceived as ‘an open source structure not about profit.’ The primordial purpose of the [...]

Communication between the doctors and technicians is often limited while performing an MRI scan on a patient. It is vital for the surgeons (who are at the gantry) and the technicians (who are in the control room) to effectively communicate between them in order to perform their work well. It’s difficult to use conventional headsets due to the [...]

A study made by Pear Analytics indicated that 40,5% of the studied messages told “daily activities” cannot attract the Twitter community’s interest, something that the consultancy called “useless attempts” to denominate the category. In second place, there were messages through where users talk amongst themselves, as if they used [...]

Quality is no longer an option in an ever-expanding and more demanding competitive world market. Excellence in organizational systems and practices is vital if the company is to become world-class. Quality management system flattens the communication structure in a bureaucratic set-up that has a lot of hierarchy. This results in useful communication. [...]

Distance learning, a fairly recent trend in educational systems, suffers from a basic handicap – communication between mentor and student. Not that this kind of learning system shuns the more vital and dynamic interaction between teacher and learner, it is just that the very nature of distance learning poses limitations in implementing the full and [...]

Giving feedback is essentially the same whether it is done over a distance education system or personally in a face-to-face manner. The objective is the same, as well as the content of the feedback. Both strategies rely on the same fact that some feedback will be given and that the sharing of advice is both important and imperative. Both are a form [...]

An inspiring leader communicates with the group. It is one thing to just lay out plans and give commands. It is another to enjoin the people to collectively carry out plans and create an atmosphere of responsibility and accountability. A good leader inspires people to move and act by clearly explaining the rudiments of plans and actions, as well as [...]