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Workplace Communication Culture: Why is it important for employees to talk to their colleagues?

Why you should talk to your colleagues? Here are several reasons on why you should put your ego/ conflicts aside and start communicating.

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New Delhi: Communication is one of the major and most fundamental  aspects of collaboration. A team will be healthy and the work will be effective only if the relationship and the communication between the team is healthy, friendly and competitive at the same time.

To be informed and educated about every topic that may effect their team, one must be able to communicate well.

Communication in teams is not only necessary for effective output,  but it however helps in developing trust, builds camaraderie among the team members and also boosts morale of the team members and one doesn’t get bored.

There are several advantages of communication like it enhances employee engagement, encourages creativity of the employee , and it also increases productivity.

According to a survey it has been found that poor communication between employees can cost each company $62.4 million annually on average.

Why is communication important for a team | Reasons here:

# Healthy Relationship In The Team

You may have  seen it yourself or might have heard about how important it is to stay connected with your co-workers especially in the corporate culture. It has been said that only happy employees have higher productivity levels.

# Improvement In Employee Engagement

The engagement levels of the employees improves only through clears communication and that is only possible when you interact and clear all the  doubts. This also helps the employees in brainstorming ideas and coming up with something creative and interesting which can boost up the team’s target.

Communication among the employees also helps in recognition at work place.

#  Impacts on the performances

Only if the mind is healthy, the outcome will be healthy. In other word the wellbeing of the employees is very much important for the organisation to be successful. If the employees of the organisation is not physically and psychologically healthy it will effect their communication which will directly impacts their performance at work.

# Make better decisions 

Different people from different background come together to form a team when we talk about workplace. It has diverse people ethnicities and thinking process.

A team can benefit with this if the organisation adopts the culture of openness and where they can encourages their employees to share their ideas and views which can helps the companies to make better decisions and bring in new innovation.

Innovation cannot happen or take place in an organisation or in a team where people don’t talk/interact with each other.

# Communication Helps In Reducing conflicts

There are times when two different parties have conflict over a small little issue or misunderstandings and this can be sorted out only if they communicate and listen to each other.

There are conflicts everywhere and at every work place, and the reason why the workplace becomes mess is because they don’t know how to avoid the conflicts by simply communicating effectively.