Getting Through

Communication is the glue that ties together high performance teams and organizations, and ineffective communication will seriously interfere with your success. Effective communication happens, in its most basic form, when a message receiver understands a message exactly as the sender intended. This is difficult to do under the best of circumstances and the wide variety of communication technologies in use today make this even more difficult to accomplish. Every day workers use various...
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Communication is the glue that ties together high performance teams and organizations, and ineffective communication will seriously interfere with your success. Effective communication happens, in its most basic form, when a message receiver understands a message exactly as the sender intended. This is difficult to do under the best of circumstances and the wide variety of communication technologies in use today make this even more difficult to accomplish. Every day workers use various forms of communication technology such as simple printed documents, text messages, email, teleconference, video conference, and in-person, to name a few. Each of these communication types imposes a filter that can alter how a message is interpreted often creating misunderstanding. "Getting Through" presents the Paulson Media Matching Method as a systematic way of determining the right media to use for communicating in a specific set of circumstances with the intent of achieving specific results (outcomes). The approach is based on a blend of communication theory and Dr. Paulson's over 30 years of experience working in various sales, marketing, project management, executive management, and educational environments. This is the first book of three in his "Beyond Chat" series that presents Paulson's "Outcome Oriented Communication" method that is designed to improve organization communication effectiveness. We live in an information age and whoever processes information the most efficiently and effectively has a head start on everyone else. Read the entire "Beyond Chat" series to learn what it really means to put information flow and communication first and succeed. Start with "Getting Through" to learn key foundational concepts that will make you a more effective communicator starting today!