Informal communication
Do you communicate informally?
Informal communication is important for working in an organization . How do you use informal communication? A little with colleagues and seniors in your tea room stood talking or the, for the work on the prowl between the office of the desk bitches or each other spilled, in the intervals of work with colleagues of the seat next to small talk or the, recently reduced It’s coming, but if you like sake, maybe it’s a good idea to drink after leaving the office . By the way, why is informal communication important? I would like to introduce a little about informal communication that my father Gutara thinks about.
Informal communication is not essential to work
Information on working within an organization is provided through formal communication . There are various things such as meetings, e-mails, documents, verbal instructions, orders, reports, reams, and so on, but all the information necessary to carry out individual work can be obtained through formal communication. Work is to think, judge, and execute based on the information gathered through formal communication . Therefore, there is no room for information gathered through informal communication. Information gathered through informal communication is not essential to work.
It’s not essential, but if you’re working in a way that works with multiple people to work on a project , the chat information you get from informal communication can be useful. Who’s hobby, what kind of work they’re doing lately, who they know in this department, who and who are good, what kind of people have been transferred, that team will start next month. The chat information obtained from informal communication is useful for working in cooperation with people .
Why is informal communication useful?
So why is informal communication so important? That’s because people are social creatures . People act while interacting with other people, including work. When you have a relationship, you may be worried if you don’t know who the other person is, but if you know the other person, you will be less worried. The magnitude of this anxiety can be said to be a sense of distance from the other person . I feel close to people I know well, and I often feel close to people I don’t know at all.
And when working in cooperation with people, the closer the sense of distance is, the stronger the sense of unity as a team, and you can feel free to discuss various problems and proceed with the work efficiently. Simply put, it’s easier to work with a team of people you know well and a team of people you don’t know at all.
What about informal communication?
Infor communication is informal, so it’s not like someone teaches you how to do it. Therefore, you need to be conscious of yourself and learn your own way . If you don’t know how to do it, take a look around. Informal communication is what people around you do when they are not working seriously at your desk .
People who chat with people nearby, people who stand up for a while and wander around the company for no purpose and chat with people in other departments, people who smokers go to smoking books and chat there, People who go to the tea room on the floor and chat while making tea … I don’t know if they are conscious or not, but everyone is doing informal communication in various ways.
If you are a manager, let’s activate informal communication?
If you are a manager, it is important to take measures to activate informal communication within the department . In order to create a team that produces better results, it is important to shorten the interpersonal distance and improve the efficiency of the team, but for that purpose, the presence or absence of informal communication on a daily basis will have an effect.
Do people in your department have the necessary informal communication? Isn’t the atmosphere so murderous that you can’t even chat with your colleagues because you prioritize work efficiency? Is there a place for informal communication? It has been a long-standing method to improve the efficiency and quality of the original work by providing a place and time for informal communication other than work , but once you check how much you can do in your department. It may be good to see it.