Author: Saiful Islam

👋 Hi, I am Saiful Islam. I completed my Honors and Masters in Management, and I enjoy writing about Business Communication. Here, I share practical insights and ideas to help readers improve their professional and academic communication skills.

Video conferencing is one kind of teleconferencing. It is one of the latest developments in the field of electronic communication. Video conferencing is the face-to-face communication among individuals or group of people with the help of electronic devices. It enables live communication between the participants who are located at different corners of the world. Each participant of video conferencing has to enter into a separate television studio equipped with cameras, microphones, and monitors. In video conference, the participants not only hear but also see each other. This is an expensive mode of communication. What Is The Video Conference According to…

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Interpersonal communication refers to the communication between people. People generally exchange their thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, feelings etc. among them through this communication mainly in the form of face-to-face conversation. But it is often observed that a number of reasons hinder interpersonal communication in the organization. So, in order to make effective interpersonal communication, hindering factors are to be deflected and the removed. For deflecting these hindering factors, an interpersonal communication model is presented below: From the above model we can derive the following assumptions on interpersonal communication: An interpersonal motive is always inherent in the mind of sender of any…

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What Is Communication Style Communication style is related to the behavior of parties involved in interpersonal communication. Communication process involves two or more parties and the parties behave differently at the time of their communication. Therefore, the pattern of interpersonal behaviors of the parties involved in communication process is known as communication style. According to Jerry Wofford and his associates, “A communication style might be defined as a specialized set of interpersonal behaviors which are used in a given situation.” Finally, it can be concluded that communication style is the set of behaviors that are exhibited by the communicator in…

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Communication between people of different cultures is known as cross-cultural communication. It is also termed as intercultural communication. In order to understand the meaning of cross-cultural communication, one must understand the meaning of culture. In a simple way, culture is the way of life of a group of people. In a broader sense, culture is the set of beliefs, values, norms, customs, traditions, habits, morals, laws, and practices commonly shared by individuals who interact in a specific area of society. Every person is the product of his or her cultural environment. Therefore, culture influences the behavior, actions, reactions, thinking etc.…

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Pre-requisites of a Valid Meeting There are different types of meetings. Whatever be the type of meeting, it must fulfill the following pre-requisites: Called by competent authority: Meetings should be called by the competent authority. If the competent authority does not call the meeting, it will be invalid. In case of company meeting, board of directors is usually considered to be the competent authority. Lawful purpose: The objectives of meeting should be lawful. If meeting is called for dealing with any unlawful or illegal issue, it will be invalid. Serving notice of the meeting: Serving notice of the meeting to…

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