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Workshop in a Box: Communication Skills for IT Developers

By : Abhinav Kaiser
Book Image

Workshop in a Box: Communication Skills for IT Developers

By: Abhinav Kaiser

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Workshop in a Box: Communication Skills for IT Professionals
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Summary


As this chapter ends, you are expected to know the following:

  • All written communication come under one of the four forms:

    • Action-focused communication form to indicate actions to be performed

    • Influential communication to lead the recipient into your way of thinking

    • Negative communication to communicate unfavorable information

    • Information communication that plainly states facts

  • Introduced the term jargons, and highlighted on situations when to employ them and when not to

  • Style of providing project updates to customers and to peers

  • Nuances of e-mail communication:

    • E-mail policy and introduction to a sample e-mail policy document

    • E-mail etiquette for effective use of e-mails

    • E-mail templates along with pointers for drafting templates

  • Importance of visual communication and introduction to sequential flowcharts, hierarchical flowcharts, tables, and graphs

  • Role of business instant messaging in IT

    • Business instant messaging etiquette for effective use of chat engines

  • Effective use of social media communication...