Let me ask you a question. What 3 elements to effective management are the hardest to do? I’m not sure if the answer will surprise you or not:
(1) Communicate (2) Communicate (3) Communicate
If may sound redundant and silly, but that doesn’t under-mind the truthfulness of it. Communication is that hardest concept for a business owner or manager to master.
Why do you think that is? There are many reasons that I have heard over the years. Some owners just think that the people that work for them, don’t want to know or don’t care. Other owners say that communicating is a complete and total waste of time. I can go on all day listing the reasons that I have heard, but instead I’m going to issue a challenge. I will call it The Effective Communication Challenge.
For this challenge, I am going to take the next few articles to address the
“7 Biggest Communication Mistakes That Business Owners Make”. You may have received my bonus report already that contains this information. If you have, I hope that have read through it and challenged yourself to overcome any of them that apply to you. If you have not received a copy, it is available on the Three Page website. In the next few articles, I will be elaborating on the information in the report and giving you tips to overcome them in your company.
The Effective Communication Challenge is:
1. For you to put these tip into action and watch the effect that it has on your business and ultimately, your bottom line.
2. Comment on the special blog site that I have created for this challenge. Each one of the mistakes and tips to overcome will be blogged on this site each month. Comment on each mistake and let us know how you worked, or are working, to overcome it and what effect it had on your company. Here is the link to the special blogsite.
http://commchallenge.blogspot.com/
It is no secret that 96 out of 100 businesses fail in the first 5 years. At Three Page, our goal is to help keep you in that 4% that succeeds. Developing effective communication techniques through-out a company is one way that we help achieve that goal. I invite you to join me on this endeavor to overcome the “7 Biggest Communication Mistakes That Business Owners Make” and accept the The Effective Communication Challenge. Will you join me? I will give you a month to think about it and in the next issue of The Missing Link, I will give you the first 2 mistakes and the steps to overcome them.