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COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT THAT EXISTS WITHIN BOLDFLASH 2

Communication Environment That Exists Within BoldFlash

As an environment which is collaborative, communicating technically usually occurs in BoldFlash. This implies that there are divisions which are within and ought to work with one another as well as stay organized to facilitate their performance as well as the productivity for the institution so as to be effective in its operations (Martinez-Moreno, 2009). With communication channels that are nominal, the organization is expected to minimize any conflicts deemed as unnecessary by approaching any products’ development as a whole.

The artifact dealing with the technical service commission in Mobile Development will comprise certain collaboration and communication artifacts. These aspects ensure that all the involved teams are in sync with the process of development. The Mobile Division, on the other hand, gets tangled up in the development of products and several departments need its yield for both product sale and manufacturing. The principal objective of this department is to develop and research product descriptions and design that are significant in the process of manufacturing. As such, a robust and consistent framework is essential for the implementation of the strategies. This framework also consists diverse significant features which facilitate the collaboration and communication between the department dealing with product development and some divisions of the organization.

The information which the department delivers to other departments is the definition of all products. Also, this description of the product comprises of details regarding the product characteristics, as input in the process of manufacturing the product. In addition, the team in the technical support department needs the statistics to aid the consumers who could encounter difficulties just in case the products get sued.

To begin with, all these teams that are constituent in the process of development can communicate freely the issues that get encountered in the projects to the management of the company. This in return assists in the quick formation of solutions to the problems that have been identified. All the members in the distinct departments are expected to attend the stand-up meetings that take place on a daily basis where they are supposed to discuss the existing activities that develop on a daily basis. The morning in the morning is projected to take up to 10 minutes whereby all people should be standing to guarantee that the meeting remains short and priority is issued to discussing the key concerns (Yip, 2007). At the time this meeting is ongoing, the workers get to discuss all the accomplishments that were made the day before, the problems that affect them while working as well as what they endeavor to do that very day. This day to day stand-up meetings are of use especially in the creation of an environment which is conducive and whereby the employees could share their thoughts and identify the issues they face which hamper their productivity in work. Also, they discuss how to go about these matters.

Other than the point we have discussed above, these teams form lists of emails and share them with all people who are involved in the procedure. Whilst coming up with these email lists, the members of the team ought to lay down the principles for the use of emails in collaboration and communication. Through these emails, the members of the team can henceforth share any documents or materials as attachments to offer detailed and clear data (Puade, 2007). This in turn encourages any information flow from the Mobile Department to particular departments in that company. Subsequent to this, the workers in the other departments get updated on the product description of the products to be sold, marketed, manufactured and developed. There is also a team that informs the others in case an issue arises in the provided information therefore creating a somewhat conducive environment for the resolution of problems.

There is also the availability of telephones that the teams can use to collaborate and communicate in the progression. Through these telephones, teams can in turn communicate their opinions and insights on a specific topic that are related to the growth of the company. Nonetheless, telephones get to be used in case of any feedback that is immediate. Similarly, these teams could them promptly communicate to the department of Mobile Division in case an issue gets identified with the provided information.

On the basis of the available channels for communicating, the message is to be delivered effectively to all the teams. It ids for the reason that these channels of communicating facilitate that all the teams can have room for discussion and receive the news simultaneously. The efficiency of the modes of communications is normally determined by the number of complaints and issues that are raised by the diverse departments. In the case that the subjects which have been identified are not many, this means that the channels have attained their resolution.

Training

Currently, oral communication is the most common form of communicating in the interior of the organization. Conversely, when it comes to delivering messages, it is somewhat very limited because the staff are expected to physically move so as to receive or deliver memos. An approach can be put in place to advance the efficiency of communicating orally in message delivery. Establishing conventions for the various teams to discuss certain issues is an environment that is conducive whereby oral communication can be used. As an alternative of the teams to move within the corporation for message delivery, meetings are set daily mostly during the morning hours whereby the departments in the company could discuss the upcoming comprehension matters. Conversations that happen face to face in the meetings ensure that the Mobile Division to facilitate the clarification of issues that get raised by other departments therefore offering a way that is effective for interaction.

It is however disadvantageous that oral communication is inept while delivering any information. The approaches used apply oral communication in the setting of meetings whereby the information get delivered to a vast group of teams. In the meeting, teams are as such able to communicate their opinions and views in a clear way with no need of going around the organization for delivering the messages. Another thing is that feedback is immediately given thus enabling teams to work well together. Still, the meetings that get held should be short, thus members will be expected to be brief in the process of communication.

References

· Martínez-Moreno, E., González-Navarro, P., Zornoza, A., & Ripoll, P. (2009). Relationship, task and process conflicts on team performance: The moderating role of communication media. International Journal of Conflict Management, 20(3), 251-268.

· Puade, O. A., & Wyeld, T. G. (2007, July). Visualizing collaboration: qualitative analysis of an email visualization case study. In Information Visualization, 2007. IV'07. 11th International Conference (pp. 163-167). IEEE.

· Yip, J. (2006). It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings.