Langsung ke konten utama

Etiquette Rules for Office Communication 

           All employees of the organization must ensure that communicate professionally and comply with the company's social norms. Corporate culture often extends to etiquette rules for communication within the company. Organizations with formal cultures and values ​​expect their communication to be formal, even with colleagues and teammates. This means that such organizations are expected to follow the etiquette of certain chats that play an important role in communication. Follow the chat etiquette rules below to stay productive and do best work at work. 

    1. Acknowledge the status message 

 Please check the recipient's status/availability before starting instant messaging. Only send messages when messages are available. This is basic small talk etiquette to follow at work. Keep in mind that if someone's status is Busy or Do Not Disturb, they may be in a meeting or discussion. Do not disturb others without knowing their availability.
 
    2. Always start with a greet or seek permission

Start Instant messaging with a greet like “Hi” or “Hello”. Also, be mindful of the good time to initiate the conversation by asking whether they would have a minute to help/answer you. Your message may be like “Steve, would you take a minute to approve the new employee’s IM user account?”. If the receiver can’t help you at that moment, you can ask him the right time to chat.

    3.  Keep the conversations short

Stay focused on the topic by having a brief and clear conversation. Make your conversation productive by holding on to the subject of the conversation alone. If the recipient may take some time to respond you, then you can choose the other medium of communication such as email, voice call, video call, or face to face meeting. Nowadays many IM’s have all the essential features like Internal Mail, Voice Call, Video Call and so on…

    4.  Abbreviate only when needed

Reduce the usage of abbreviation, acronyms, and slangs. Understand the recipient’s preferred way of communication. You must have to always adjust the type of communication when you chat with colleagues, higher officials or friends. Try to be clear with your words. Also, it is important to check the grammar before you send the message.

    5. Be Appropriate

Emojis can be used to express your feelings. But it is not etiquette to use more emojis in a conversation. Avoid the usage of emojis as much as possible. Also, the usage of the exclamatory mark and a question mark will weaken your messages. Use it moderately only when essential. Using capital letters indicates that you are shouting out the messages. Always be appropriate in professional communication




Komentar

Postingan populer dari blog ini

How To Deliver Bad News In The Workplace

       When working in a leadership position, you may sometimes be asked to share bad news, and how you communicate it can affect your team's response and morale. Breaking bad news to employees is an important task for any leadership role, and knowing how to deliver it properly is critical to developing healthy relationships with your team. Learning how to break bad news to employees can help you maintain open communication and promote an encouraging office environment during difficult situations. How To Deliver Bad News In The Workplace      Follow these steps to help you learn how to break bad news at work to make sure you feel confident and ready for the conversation: 1. Prepare for questions 2. Choose the right time and place 3. Deliver the news using direct language 4. Give an explanation 5. Allow others to speak 6. Explore solutions with those involved Tips for delivering bad news in the workplace     Here are some tip to delivering bad...

Good Etiquette When Sending Messages to Lecturers

  Basically ethics in communication is important in any situation, such as in the home, school, campus, or office environment. One sign that indicates that a person is mature is by being ethical in a communication. As is the case when a student communicates in the campus environment, of course this is quite different from what we usually communicate at home or in an informal environment because the campus environment is an agency environment for a fairly formal place of study. In contrast to campus friends, communicating with the lecturers themselves must be very polite, especially when they want to send messages that must know the time limit and ethics in using words.   Communicating with Lecturers On this occasion I will share knowledge about how to communicate ethics when sending messages with good and correct lecturers. In the past, when I just entered college, I thought that contacting or sending messages to lecturers was the same as sending messages to teachers during sc...
  Nursing Interpersonal Communication and Etiquette                   In recent years, the importance of fostering interpersonal communication manners and communication skills, which are the basis of nursing education, has increased. “Interpersonal Communication and Etiquette” refers to the application of theories of interpersonal communication and etiquette to the humanitarian aspects of nursing practice.            1.    Experience hospital internship activities                          During long vacations before the start of the course, students are organized to do an internship at a nearby hospital. Internship reports must account for at least one-fifth of your grades for this course.  2. Reflections on holiday internships once students return from their hospital internships, the inst...