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Companies sometimes spend a lot of money to hire trainers or professional development coaches to teach their employees and C-suite executives how to master and use objective business communication for their day-to-day corporate responsibilities. This is a very expensive exercise that most small-and-medium-sized businesses cannot afford, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t make serious efforts to encourage their employees and managers to learn improved strategies for effective business communication. 4 Types of Business Communication Strategies What kinds of business communication strategies can you implement in your business? These are some of the business communication strategies you could discover through learning: Core message strategy: Your organization must have a definite core message it is trying to pass across to people inside and outside the organization. This core message will be directly linked to your organization’s vision/mission and can be seen as the reflection of your brand reputation. For instance, McDonald’s slogan “I’m Lovin’ It” is a core message for the popular fast-food restaurant which depicts the comfort and satisfaction that their customers express when eating there. The core message that would be conveyed in your communication with all stakeholders should be remarkable and memorable so that customers, suppliers, and investors can always relate to the message when presenting your organization’s image to others. Delivery strategy: How would you like to deliver your company’s core message? You could utilize reports, proposals, newsletters, emails, letters, and even presentations to deliver your business communication to those it is meant for, such as your employees, customers, suppliers, partners, etc. The delivery method must be customized and meet the preferences of the recipients. It is sensible to say that an investor would be happy to receive a report from an organization, meanwhile what customers need are just emails and newsletters — they possibly don’t have time to sit down and read 45-70-page reports about an organization’s products/services. Some companies have good and solid messages they want to send to their stakeholders, however, their delivery methods are the reasons why the recipients of those messages aren’t reading them. So, the delivery methods are as important as the business messages they carry. Social media strategy: It is fast becoming the modus operandi among organizations to predominantly use social media to send business messages to the stakeholders. In addition to being a fast and effective process, social media offers organizations the opportunity to reach many recipients at the same time. To use this medium properly, it is important to know the different types of social media platforms that are currently being utilized by businesses and learn to deploy them for the benefit of advancing a company’s business communication procedures. Feedback strategy: This is basically about hearing back from your stakeholders. In addition to using emails, memos, letters, and other means of communication, an organization can also obtain feedback/responses from their customers, partners, and employees via social media. Business communication is a two-way approach, meaning the organization and its stakeholders talk to each other through some or all of the above-mentioned media. So, getting the feedback strategy right can help a company maintain regular interaction with its customers, obtaining useful feedback that could be incorporated into other messages, including customer service, sales, and promotional messages. 3 ways to learn about these business communication strategies You can use any of the three ways highlighted below to learn more about the business communication strategies described above: Hiring a professional development coach: Most big organizations can afford to hire high-performance coaches to teach their employees about the best-in-town business communication strategies, even though it is sometimes an expensive venture. Sometimes, those organizations spend anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000 annually to bring coaches to their offices and properly train their employees. Unfortunately, this may be out of reach for most small and medium-sized businesses. Attending a business school or studying business-related courses:  If you have the time and are still willing to go to school, you may learn about the latest business communication strategies at colleges or business schools pursuing a course such as business management, business studies, etc. This will require an investment of time and money. If you are a very busy manager or CEO, you may not have the time to attend lectures. Read a book that comprehensively deals with the subject matter: This third option seems to be the most time-efficient and cost-effective approach you can take to learn more about the best approaches for carrying out your organization’s business communication processes. Grab a well-written and factual book over a weekend and teach yourself about the nitty gritty of business communication. Book cover of Business Communication Essentials You Always Wanted To Know by Vibrant Publishers. Business Communication Essentials is the go-to manual to learn the nuances of effective business communication. Our book, Business Communication Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Business Communication Essentials), is prepared in a way that you can easily digest its content, quickly learning the latest business communication strategies that you can adopt in transforming your organization. The most interesting part is that it is designed as a self-learning resource that completely touches all areas of business communication. Not only that, but it also exposes some best secrets about how some successful companies in our world have transformed their business operations by mainly improving their business communication procedures. You will soon discover that doing business communication well is not as difficult as you may have been thinking; all you need to do is discover all the necessary nuggets of wisdom and knowledge packed in the Business Communication Essentials’ pages. 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Every organization has both internal and external stakeholders it must constantly keep in touch with in order to remain operational. The internal stakeholders may include the organization’s employees, contractors, managers, executives, etc. Its external stakeholders may include its suppliers, customers, investors, partners, governmental agencies, etc. It is understandable that each stakeholder requires different levels or kinds of communication. As a matter of fact, each message sent out to any of the stakeholders must be precise and customized to satisfy the recipient’s requirements. This requires a lot of learning and practice before you can master it. If learned and implemented correctly, business communication can propel any organization toward success.  4 main reasons why business communication is important for a business’s growth For an organization to successfully meet its goals and vision/mission, it must proactively engage all the stakeholders connected to it. Highlighted below are five strategic reasons why every company must take its business communication seriously and do it properly to spark growth and achieve long-term success: 1. It connects all the dotsIt is practically impossible for an organization to smoothly carry out its statutory business operations without putting in place an effective communication strategy. There must be a clear and understandable guideline for those in executive or management positions in the organization to properly communicate with their junior colleagues or subordinates. More so, the employees would be required to exchange, with one another, ideas and information necessary to complete their assigned projects or duties. All these essential interactions that connect the dots are what is referred to as business communication. Organizations can utilize intranet, emails, letters, memos, etc. to keep all their internal and external stakeholders in the loop about all their business operations or activities. This action will surely remove misunderstandings and misinformation among stakeholders. 2. It will increase productivityWhen a company’s employees share the right amount of information with one another, as promptly as they need it, the company’s level of productivity will improve. This is because vital ideas required to successfully complete their assigned projects/duties respectively would be made available to them when they most needed them. For instance, when workers are not provided with the right information while on the job they may be unable to deliver quality as expected. This is because they do not have the data, information, or even documents to work with. Any organization that has this kind of poorly designed information-sharing model is bound to be slow and technically unproductive. Assume you are an employee in a manufacturing plant; if you don’t have access to the appropriate raw materials, you may be rendered redundant—this entails that you may not be able to perfectly carry out your duties at the plant. It is safe to say that effective business communication is the most important engine that powers every organization’s drive to maintain or increase its productivity level, otherwise redundancy will set in and that will drastically lower such organization’s production quantity. Business communication also allows managers, team leaders, and employees within an organization to smoothly and regularly organize meetings that will help them keep track of all the necessary work, and provide much-needed motivation for all the employees involved.  3. It conveys products’/services’ qualityA company’s customers may not exactly know the actual quality of its products/services unless the company first conveys it to them; as such, it is the duty of the company to communicate this to them in a clear and most understandable manner. And this is why business communication is regarded as a viable tool in customer relationship management (CRM) systems. Through periodical product information releases, newsletters, emails, catalogs, and even quarterly or yearly reports, an organization can constantly update its customers about the improvement in its products’/services’ quality. For example, software products need periodic updates to remain efficient, and IT companies undoubtedly rely on business communication to inform their customers about these important updates, or else it may be difficult for their customers to enjoy using the software products. The only instances whereby customers misused some products came from the fact the manufacturers of those products didn’t adequately communicate the proper uses of their products. This kind of problem mostly arises from small-and-medium-sized businesses or startups that are just developing a product and releasing it to the market for the first time. Due to the lack of adequate information customers of those businesses with poor business communication often ended up relying on their discretions to use the product. This approach isn’t the best to run a business, and customers may soon desert such a business with inadequate business communication procedures. 4. It helps organizations to build better relationships with stakeholders One of the famous quotes by Rollo May states that “communication leads to community; that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing.” An organization needs to demonstrate that it values its contributions and/or the efforts of its stakeholders. In addition to bringing all stakeholders intimately together, communication can also create a feeling of community where every member does his/her best to make the organization function optimally. Without a unifying central message or pieces of important communication that bind all stakeholders to the organization, there will always be some level of misunderstanding. Therefore, business managers/directors, business management/studies students, founders, or entrepreneurs-to-be must learn the best and the latest business communication approaches. Business Communication Essentials helps organizations build a strong business communication strategy Vibrant Publishers’ book Business Communication Essentials You Always Wanted To Know provides a comprehensive outlook on the theme of “Business Communication”, highlighting the different aspects of business communication and procedures necessary for perfectly engaging in successful communication with all the stakeholders in a business. It is designed to be an easy-to-understand, self-study book that touches on every area of business communication. Reading it will empower you to systematically transform the way you or your organization does business communication. Also Read: Business Strategy Essentials 101The Role of Digital Marketing in Today's Business EnvironmentWhat is Entrepreneurship and How Do You Set Up a Successful Business?