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  It’s one thing to have the right information about most aspects of your business, and quite another to successfully transmit that information to the people within the organization you need to use it. Even if you have figured out the former, your business could still struggle because of a deficiency in the latter. If your information flow isn’t efficient, you need to know how to improve internal communication within your business, so that insights, suggestions, criticisms, requests and reports are passed on to the people responsible for utilizing them.
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Fixing the problem of inefficient communication requires taking a number of steps to improve messaging, as well as communication styles and channels. In this article, we’ll talk about some of those steps. You can implement them if you are the chief executive of the business or a manager with designated powers to do so.

Set a Schedule for Communication

The aim of maintaining communication lines is to ensure that all members of a team involved in a project are on the same page. To ensure that no one is left out of the loop on anything, it’s important to have regularly scheduled meetings with your team. Such meetings will allow everyone to share their concerns and suggestions and have others grapple with, internalize, and find common ground on the issues raised. These meetings could take place daily, weekly, or monthly. Just make sure to stick to the schedule, so you establish a sense of regularity with internal communication.

Adopt a Multichannel Approach

The idea of using just a couple of communication channels at work may be tempting, especially for managers who want a hyper-streamlined system. The problem is that this might make many of your staff feel left out. For example, some channels may appeal more to staff who are older, but not so much to younger persons. Getting everyone on your team to be fully invested in what’s going on at your business, may require that you provide more than one or two platforms for internal interactions.
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Be Clear and Concise

When it comes to business communication, simpler is usually better. Avoid using technical jargon that some of your staff may not understand. Also, disseminate whatever enquiries, demands, or suggestions in language that’s straight to the point and easy to grasp at the first go. The less verbose you are in your written and spoken messages, the easier it is for recipients to get the point you’re making. An important tip is to always share the most important information first. Another would be to provide context for every task or project so that employees understand why they are undertaking them in the first place.

Make Team Members Comfortable with Engaging Management

If your workers understand that their opinions matter to your organization, they will be more willing to share their thoughts about various aspects of your operations with your management. This also gives them the impression that they are truly a part of the whole setup of your business. So, have an open door policy that welcomes feedback from them. You never know what kinds of transformative solutions your people could come up with. Anonymous employee surveys are great for this because they enable you to feel the pulse of your employees without making them feel unsafe in the process.

Be Transparent about Where Your Business is

Most employees want to be kept in the know by upper management about what’s going on with their employer. You should provide yours with regular updates concerning what your company is trying to achieve in the present, where it is growth-wise, and changes that may be in the offing. This is really about treating them with respect and recognizing that they are a full part of your organization. Employers that take transparency seriously in this way tend to inspire loyalty from their staff.
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Final Words

In this article, we have discussed 5 ways to improve internal communication at your business. These steps are essential to building trust and harmony within your teams. If you have both of these in place, you will raise your chances of your business’s success to a considerable degree.
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This article was first published on 5th February 2025
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Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.


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