When it comes to team collaboration, Cisco Jabber is a robust tool. It enables users to communicate with one another through multiple channels, including phone, video, VoIP, and instant messaging. These features make it a preferred option for businesses. But, in November 2022, Cisco announced its End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support(EOS). It means Cisco will discontinue the development, sale, and support of Jabber. There will be no more software updates, security patches, and technical support.
Do you know some companies don’t realize or admit they are suffering from communication breakdowns, which causes adverse outcomes like arguments between the teams leading to blame games, delays in deliveries, employees' poor performance affecting their morale, the noxious surge of customer complaints, and so on? The grievous problem is about the companies that don’t realize the breakdown in communication.
According to Michael J. Papa, the author of Organizational Communication, “a corporation that focuses on horizontal communication places more importance on fostering collaboration than managing work. When a company expands, lateral or horizontal communication is an intelligent approach to maintain a sense of unity and have all of its parts work towards the same objectives.”
Since the dawn of man, connection, community, and communication have been essential for our survival and development as a species. Many things have changed over the last thousands of years, but the importance of connection has remained the same.
Communication is essential in any workplace. Whether you’re talking to your coworkers on the team hotline, composing an email, or discussing a project in person, effective communication is key to a productive environment. But what if you don’t have the best interpersonal skills? In this article, we’ll explore the importance of interpersonal skills and discuss some tips on how to improve them.
In this era of apparent “overcommunication”, we can miss the essence of effectively transmitting our messages. Is it professional to add emojis? How often should you check-in with remote employees and hourly contractors? And more crucial, what is the best way to do it? As remote work continues to become a more popular working practice, companies have adopted remote work practices with increasing frequency as technology-driven solutions have enabled communication from anywhere.
The idea of having a team dedicated to communicating with a company’s workforce isn’t new. Still, the last three years have intensified the need for an internal comms team as the workplace morphed from a single location to distributed locations, with employees spanning different cities, workplaces, and time zones.