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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

When to employ face-to-face communication


Although face-to-face communication is most effective and widely preferred, it cannot be practiced at every communication opportunity. It comes at a price, and the price is quite high—the cost of holding face-to-face meetings and the time on hand for all participants. Individuals must carefully prioritize their meetings, the important communication opportunities to leverage on face-to-face communication. Some examples are sales pitches, customer service reviews, and interviews. Yes, I did mention interviews knowing full well that most interviews are telephonic these days, and this is not good for the state of company affairs, hiring somebody who the company bosses have never met. I will keep this discussion for another day, for another book possibly.

Here is one of the methods of picking the interactions that are done face to face. Put down all the meetings you have on a calendar, and categorize them as routine, priority, and discretional:

  • Routine...