Whether you have a small business with just a handful of staff or if you’re working on a more global scale with offices around the world, in-house communication is obviously an essential part of who you are and will be vital for getting the best out of your team.
It’s always a good idea to optimise and maximise your business communications, and this doesn’t always have to be a mind-bending task. Here are some ideas for ways in which you can do it fairly simply.
Connect the different teams in the company
Regardless of the location of your team, your members of staff should be able to communicate easily and regularly. Utilise the technology at your disposal to enable your employees to reach out to one another when working on similar projects, or just simply to get clued up on different parts of the business. Things along the lines of Skype are great for communicating with offices in a foreign country, for example, but it’s a good idea to look into ways in which you can maximise your main office’s communications too. Upgrading to a Wide Area Network is just one of the ways you can do this. Check this article to learn more about how wide area networks work.
Upgrade the phone system in the office
Having a good phone system will be crucial for keeping you in touch with your clients and customers, but it is also a great tool at your disposal for in-house communications. There are countless different options out there now to help meet the needs of your workforce. For example, business IP softphones enable you with quicker and more user-friendly remote access to telephone facilities; helping you to communicate with remote workers easily and regularly, and to help optimise your staff’s productivity.
Check out VoIP options for your business
Especially designed for small businesses, VoIP is an award winning telephone system that works anywhere – it starts for as little as £2 per month for a telephone number – and is a cloud based service that has lots of really useful features including call transfer, call conferencing and hold music. It’s therefore a really cost effective way for your small business to communicate, but it is also being recognised as a way for larger, more global ones to communicate much more cheaply too.
Create an open and communicative environment for your employees
As well as looking at ways in which technology can help you increase the communications within your team(s), it’s also a good idea to look into ways for creating an open and communicative environment within the business so that your employees feel comfortable enough to be able to do so. As well as setting up things like weekly meetings for your team to discuss how things are going as a complete team, you could also set up an online framework with your team’s performance appraisal information on it, so that your employees can be recognised for their hard work and successes, and so that they can praise each other, too!
