Well todays all been all about communication.

Were all told most days that we do not communicate well, effectively or enough. Its not only us its our teams, our companies, our friends and our families, everyone, in fact the World cannot communicate. Isnt this Ironic when we now live in the age where communication mediums are everywhere, instantanious, where I can post this blog and within seconds it is available potentially Worldwide, and there lies the problem! Its not that people have become worse at or forgotton how to communicate either at work or socially its just which medium do you choose to use and will the person you are trying to communicate with actually be trying to use the same medium. This is so true in the work place, important and direct communiaction between team members, divisions, companies and their customers is simply lost in the noise. People use email, sharepoint, IM, facebook, Phones, texts, call log systems, VC etc etc. Therefore person A sends an email to persons B C D and E. Person D then responds to Person E using IM, B responds to everyone by phoning them. D then sends a text to a C and E! Already communication on one issue, subject has become fractured an ineffective. No one from the original mail now is truely in the picture of what the status, progress and next steps are. Compound this 100 fold and you start to recognise my point here. We are not poor communicators we just cannot in this multi -media instant information age settle on which form of communiaction works for all people at the same time. Maybe if in the work place one method was chosen just for 1 week and all other mediums were disabled we could see how much more effective communication could become once more? Anyway answers on a postcard, IM, text, email, phone...................